Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Caring for a Life I had my daughter when I was 15 years old. Yes, I was young and yes, it was not the best time for me to have a baby. Teenage mothers are stigmatized in our society as promiscuous and looked down upon. Becoming a parent at a young age when you yourself are a child makes you mature quickly. Parenting brings many challenges, but we cannot negate all the blessings and insight it can bring as well. I have grown as an individual, learned to balance different aspects of my life and…

religious, Donne’s poetry includes the omnipresence of romance, passion and worship provide a unique scope to love in every angle, theoretical and practical. To develop his philosophy of love, Donne sought to deeply understand it through his different experiences of its joys, pleasures and even sorrows. He thus went on a quest for discovery,…

Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience as a cloud that saw a filed of daffodils during its everyday trip. While many poets were concerned with the afterlife, Marvell focused on the earthy paradise. Existence of such place that became forbidden for humans because of their…

Connie always escaped reality through music and boys. Music functions as Connie’s passage from the real world to her fantasy world, she gathers her ideas about romance largely from songs on the radio or of what she’s heard around. When Arnold shows up at her house, she is again wallowing in the music she is listening to, and it takes her a moment to realize that it is the same music that is originating from Arnold’s car. Even before…

traumatic. The children were brought to work in the fields at early ages. If they survived their infancy, which included being weaned at a younger age and being fed food of little nutritional value. Arguably, the children were able to play and sing songs despite their hardships, similar to the children of today 's time, but they had no contril over the life that they were dealt and no due to the lack of data obtained about these children, there is nothing…

The hero’s journey concept has transcended cultural barriers and engraved itself into the modern culture. It traditionally follows the transformation of the weak, and often cowardly youngster, into the knight in shining armor battling through trials and temptations to restore order in society. In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the heroes embark on journeys that transform them from boys into heroes. However, each transformation does not follow the…

story, she “consumes” the Wolf. Duffy communicates the idea of dominant male tradition in poetry, combining the fairy tale and the feminist ideas, like insufficient recognition of female poets - "howls the same old song at the moon, year in, year out" (Duffy). Emerging out of her innocence, Little Red Cap sleeps with the Wolf, but as soon as she has the opportunity, she grabs the axe and cuts him “scrotum to throat”, and finds her grandmother’s bones inside, thus indicating that the skeleton of…

individual’s colonisation, through the close up of the black scraps of metal lying around the barren plain, representing man’s destruction and disruption of nature’s natural system, juxtaposed with the gentle colour of the sky, yellow symbolises innocence and purity which had been interfered by mankind. Wright encourages responder’s to appreciate what nature has provided, rather than take advantage of it, because one day, nature will choose to stop providing and it will only detriment the…

Though they adapt the same source material, through the skillful use of setting and cinematography, the openings of Joss Whedon’s and Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing present vastly different moods. Both contain sequences not featured in the text that add to their vision of Shakespeare’s original work - a triumphant and frenzied entrance in a bucolic setting for one, and an intimate abandonment in the other. Branagh’s production is a show, choosing to downplay the darker aspects of the…

simulation theory but if you were to connect it with the dream theory it may make more sense. If he is doubting if he is real then that would rid of the simulation, but if it was a dream then he would be real. He would have free will but his life and experience would not be real. This by no means is a reliable source, but there was a small story that someone posted on the internet about how they got into a fight in high school and after that fight he went onto meet a girl, get a job, marry and…