Muse

Muse upon all your held convictions of freedom and the pleasures you possess. Now contemplate the possibility that there are greater pleasures in life that go beyond what you have been inculcated for the duration of your life. Now place yourself in the opposite position and imagine being raised to despise the pleasures you consider normal. The latter is precisely the position in which the characters of Fahrenheit 451 find themselves. Guy Montag, the main protagonist, is a man in this dystopian…

The subject of this poem is death by suicide and depression, the tone is very dark and gloomy. Personally, I don't have any experiences with suicide. However, I have experienced mild depression. That was my muse for this poem, not close the level of the speaker but the common depression that everyone experiences. The name of the poem is “Antarctica” because that is what I can related depression too, I remember feeling very cold when I had depression as well as lonely. It's a metaphor for the…

When she realizes her son is in need of her help, Thetis does everything she can to provide Achilles with what he needs. In this instance, it includes traveling to Hephaestus to have custom armour made. Thetis comments, “I am on my way to Olympus heights, to the famous Smith Hephaestus- I pray he’ll give my son some fabulous armor full of the god’s great fire!” (P. 472) As a loving mother, Thetis wants only what is best for Achilles; however, helping her son is also a consolation prize for…

projects in Tibet so they can live their lives with less hardships. I remember that when I first got an interest in humanitarian work, it was because, I wanted to, like in Buddhist teachings, "work for the benefit of all sentient beings". That led me to muse upon how I can best help as much…

Macbeth, there are many times that people deceive others. People even in our day and age deceive others by putting on false appearances. In the story Macbeth, the main character Macbeth puts on a false appearance many times. “ I do forget. Do not muse me, My most worthy friends. I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing to those that know me. Come, love and health to all. Then i’ll sit down. Give me some wine. Fill full.” macbeth throws a banquet and while there sees Banquo’s ghost and cries…

While many of the other war leaders Toussaint has been compared to have questionable character, “the Muse of History…will write in clear blue ink, above them all, Toussaint Louverture.” (Phillips 1861). The clear blue ink represents his notable loyalty and strong leadership, while being a transparent and truthful person that stands up to today’s criticisms…

documentary, The United States of Amnesia, Gore Vidal said, “Art is not a democracy,” he goes on to explain, “in fact, art is the enemy of democracy.” Essentially, the gifted artist, one can argue, is one to whom the ancient Greeks said were favoured by the muses of creativity: accordingly, such divine assistance is undemocratically dished out. Precisely, it is because of the writer’s imagination and astuteness in carefully selecting and arranging words on a page, so as to convey the complex…

The most famous work of Man Ray is recognized as "The violin of Ingres", became iconic images of the twentieth century. I pose for this picture of Kiki de Montparnasse notorious (Kiki de Montparnasse) - muse of famous artists of Paris. The work of Man Ray - something like a photographic pun, "untranslatable play on words", and accurate manner. "Ingres violin" - the literal translation of the French idiom violon d'Ingres (literally, it was his "strong point", his weakness, his favorite pastime).…

imitate nature, but to reveal its sacred qualities and purest forms underling reality. An important idea in ancient Greece at the time was that of a muse. “Each muse was thought to provide a guiding spirit or source of inspiration for the mortal creator… Given this conception, human creativity remained subordinate to divine creativity” (Simonton, 3). A muse could possess an artist and provide the ‘genius’ to which exceptional creativity was attributed. It was thought that each individual in…

Pope”s use of mock-epic form in “The Rape of the Lock” In general the term epic conventions can be defined as the literary devices employed in the epic poetry of the great epics of Homer’s Iliad, Vergil’s Enid, Horace’s and Dante’s divine Comedy to explore the thematic issues which elevates the portrayals of the heroic characters that are showcased on a higher pedestal as their heroic deeds are of greater significance to their contemporary societies. On the contrary, the Augustan…