Muse

arrangement through instrumentation or vocal timbre, the mood of the song can be flipped upside down and thrown onto the other side of the world. This could not be more clearly exemplified by the two covers of “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone in the 1960s and Muse in the early 2000s. “Feeling Good” is one of the most popular songs sung by Nina Simone. Arguable, it is one of the songs that made Simone a household name (Freyermuth, 2010). However, like the other songs in her album “I Put a Spell…

One such example is that of lost love, or unrequited love. In Batiushkov’s “Moi genii,” the poet writes a lament to a lost muse, described as “мо[я] пастушк[а] несрабвенн[ая],” an incomparable shepherdess, which holds true as Batiushkov forgoes metaphors and similes. Instead, he chooses to describe his muse as she is in his memory, as illustrated by the anaphora on lines 5-7, in which he repeats “я помню” as a sort of refrain. This [ju] sound, placed before the details…

straight to Houston with no stops in between. In 1970 King brought onboard Lamar Muse and appointed…

In the beginning of the Theogony, the Muses dance and sing on Mount Helicon, which represents the Muses being entirely free (1-20). When the Muses sing for Zeus, they have the freedom to choose whether they want to sing about the past, present, or future (37-40). In The Odyssey, however, the freedom to choose has a negative connotation, which…

From Muse to Poet: The Liberation of the Female Protagonist from a Traditional Romantic Gender Role in Cornelia Funke’s Tintenherz Introduction Modern young adult fantasy fiction has commonly inscribed its females in their ancillary roles of due to its preference to a gendered, conventional hero. Cornelia Funke’s German fantastical fiction for young adults, Tintenherz (2003), subverts the prevalent patriarchal gender representations, specifically concerning the models in German Romantic fiction.…

of an epic. Homer’s way of words makes the book more enjoyable to the reader. “The language of the Homeric poems is a creation of epic verse.” (12) There nine main characteristics in an epic including; the setting changes many times, begins with a Muse, using epithets, and speaking in long lists. The setting in The Odyssey changes a variety of times. The settings change almost in an instant, there is no inbetween. “The wind drove me out of Ilium to Ismarus, the Cicones’ stronghold” (212)…

Apart from Atheists, most humans believe in the existence of gods. Whether monotheistic or polytheistic, people understand the fact that there are spiritual beings that dwell beyond the scope of human visibility. The Archaic greeks also believed in this theistic phenomenon. Their culture was embedded in mythology, quaint superstition and a belief in prophetic fervor. When we analyze the Hesiodic Theogony and Works and Days, we would realize the features this Archaic greek culture overlap, to a…

A god named Muse Calliope gave birth to a baby boy named Orpheus and his father was but a human. When Orpheus was young he was taught by his mother and her sister Muses. As he grew up he was gifted with his lyre many loved his music. While on a trip he met a women named Eurydice and he fell in love. He asked if she would marry him and she said she would and then they where married. While on a walk she was bit by a viper on the foot and died. She then went to the underworld that was controlled by…

While he was writing his sad poetry, a woman appeared over him. She had and appearance of a wise person and had books and a scepter in her hands. The woman was angered that the muses were giving him sad inspirations, making his sorrows worse instead of cheering his up. The woman sends the muses away, and will have her own muses care for him. The women sat next to him and told…

Milton uses allusions throughout Paradise Lost including biblical references, literary references and mythological references. Many of his allusions refer to the Bible story of Adam, Eve, and Lucifer, explaining their sins and the reason humans lost their paradise. He also uses other literary and mythological references to relate further to the story. To begin with, Milton uses many allusions to the Bible. He opens the story explaining man’s first sin with the forbidden fruit and Adam and Eve:…