Still life

but adds a modern spin to its form. The speaker is mourning the death of a childhood friend by reminiscing on past memories. Within the poem there are drifts from past to present and future to separate how the speaker feels about each part of his life without his friend in reference to time. Adam Vines's "Lures" embraces the traditional elegy with the mourning of a loss, but it departs from tradition with its low diction, diverse tense, and language. Traditionally, an elegy uses high diction but…

created a contest of who would feel more miserable about the other’s hypothetical death. Jack and Babette seemed to make a race of who could die first because both just wanted to get it over with, and not be left on Earth with the struggle of daily life. This subconscious race was entirely in contrast to how much they both feared the idea of death, let alone actually dying. Questions of death drove a wedge in the marriage by creating something that is not tangible in the marriage, but one could…

Pathos, Rhetoric, and Greater Truths about Life and Death in King John In William Shakespeare’s King John, the main character’s deathbed speech utilizes rhetorical devices and pathos to invoke pity for the dying king. Shakespeare utilizes these devices to strengthen his 3-part metaphor in order to mirror the evolution and dilapidation of King John’s life all within the cusp of six lines. Through this clever use of rhetoric, the playwright reveals greater meaning about the tragedy of death and…

ago. You’re constantly changing; experiences don’t stop. That’s life”- Unknown. In Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, the main character, Catherine, constantly changes. In the beginning, Catherine was very stubborn and she wouldn’t accept the fact that she had to marry, the awful, Shaggy Beard. Towards the end, Catherine realizes that she needs to change and that she has to be herself and become mature. Throughout Catherine’s life, many people such as her suitors, Shaggy Beard, the Jewish…

Harwood’s poems are as much about love and life as they are about death and loss. Gwen Harwood once wrote that one must immerse themselves in the shades by confronting harrowing truisms, namely an awareness of life’s brevity and death’s inevitability, in order to find solace in difficult times. While Harwood’s poems consider death as a plaguing concern, she does not remain morbidly transfixed on grief and loss. A celebration of significant relationships with loved ones and reflecting upon fond…

everyone and everything was created with capabilities, whereas Darwin argues that all living organisms had to sacrifice themselves to fit in the changing environment. Yet the book of God and the book of Evolution have different explanations of how life was form, they both have the same conclusion of humans being the intelligent…

harshness of death but snaps the audience back to reality at the very end. Moreover, throughout the story death is still seen light-hearted with lines such as, “ When the Robins come/ Give the one in the Red Cravat,/ A Memorial crumb” (Lines 2-4). The harshness is provided when Emily discusses the extinction of the soul in the last stanza. She does not divulge any sign of the soul still existing after death in the poem. The body becomes lifeless after death, and cannot say thank you to the…

walking tour in Europe before his last semester in college, which influenced both his love for poetry and his political views. Wadsworth found himself in Europe during the French Revolution and that is when he began his “interest and sympathy for the life, troubles, and speech of the common man” (poets.org). Losing two of his children definitely impacted William to become the poet that we know of today. In “My heart leaps up when I behold” and “Mutability” Wordsworth uses themes of nature and…

Life is not simple. Throughout life, one will suffer, struggle, get hurt and have dreams taken away. Reality is tough, and life is cruel. Yet people always strive to fulfil their dreams and achieve the goals, which they have set upon themselves. There are times, where dreams come true, and then there are times, where they do not. This is all part of life. To fall and stumble, only so that one can arise and be stronger than before and fight harder for what they believe in. However, at times that…

encompassing the early lives of Harry’s parents, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Severus Snape. Each of these characters suffered and lost their youth to the hardships and dangers of a war. In turn, they played a critical role in Harry’s life because their deaths were focused on love. Therefore, I found songs that represented the deaths of these characters – with the exception of Peter – which accurately expresses the type of love they were experiencing at the time of their…