Personification

The above quote depicts death as a permeable state, as though it is a series of doors to pass through with ease. In this quote, Kudra courageously and defiantly refers to death not as a permanent state but rather a part of life. This treatment of death as a bystander rather than a villain is unique and is a part of the inspiration for my rendering of the Goddess of the Earth, Ouroboras. As death is a permeable series of rooms to walk about, it creates a cyclical image of the cycle including all…

Mortality is a topic frequently addressed in poetry. In Edmund Spenser’s “Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name” and Dylan Thomas’s “In My Craft or Sullen Art”, both poets write about mortality, however take much different views. Dylan Thomas warns against the fleeting nature of human life and urges people to embrace life without fear, whereas Thomas seems quite nonchalant about the idea of death and seems to believe that he can be immortalized through his poetry. Thomas uses the imagery of…

Death and The Grave Haruki Murakami once said “Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives we nuture death.” Thanatopsis, poem written by American poet William Collen Bryant , illustrates death as inevitable or natural, and something you shouldn’t be afraid of. William was only about 17 when he composed this beautiful piece of writing, and still had such a clear thought of what death meant to him. It’s safe to say that I completely concede with Mr.Collen…

Every induvial is born with a finite life span, that of which is unknown. The concept of eternal rest is one that hinders minds, holding different interpretations. Death, the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to existence, is a facet of life that every individual becomes acquainted with. Writers have used this notion of death as the basis for many literary works. Holding a negative denotation, literary writers have created a new image for the face of death, giving it human…

The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations. The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through. The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4…

Life and death are concepts that are interconnected. We cannot live a life void of death, nor can we die without living, without existing beforehand. The poems I chose deals with these two notions and the link between them, and will be analysed in this essay based on language, imagery, meaning and effect. “A Consumer’s Report” by Peter Porter revolves around life, while “For Heidi With Blue Hair” by Fleur Adcock is about the method of grieving a loved one’s death that a girl employs. Both…

Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

Through their works, American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson comment on the mysteries of life and the end result of death. In a combination between the words “death” and “brain,” in the poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” and “The Brain – Is Wider Than The Sky,” Dickinson attempts to show the reader the numerous possibilities of life. Walt Whitman, in the poems “Song of Myself,” and “Leaves of Grass”, tries to combine the words death and grass in an attempt to explain how to cope…

Mother Nature. The poet, William Cullen Bryant uses the personification of nature and death, and shifts in mood to not only acknowledge the bitter ache of loss, but to soften the sharpness of the injury, by opening the reader’s mind to the other more positive aspects of death. In addition, he uses grief counselling techniques, and realism to get his message across. In the first couple of stanzas of the poem, there is a heavy use of personification. Nature is portrayed as a sweet, graceful,…

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards states that a sinner without the help of God is pathetic and doomed for eternity. Edwards demonstrates this idea with the use of imagery, metaphors, and personification. Edwards conveys imagery by creating a scene in which the listener can feel the vulnerability through the speech. Edwards preaches, "Your wickedness makes you heavy as lead... if God should let you, you would immediately sink and plunge in the bottomless gulf... all…