Synesthesia

Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market presents men in a negative perspective. In the poem, three women are affected by the men’s actions. The men’s actions and the effect thereof are all portrayed as evil. The acts may be symbolizing an issue in society but such issue is never addressed directly. The speaker of Goblin Market is biased in illustrating men. The portrayal is generalized through bizarre imagery, appeal to the sense, of hearing and pathos, in order to create a dramatized situation…

Alexander Scriabin was a Russian post-romantic composer known for his ever-evolving compositional style. He composed mostly piano works, 177 piano pieces in all (including 10 piano sonatas, as well as many mazurkas, études, nocturnes, préludes, poèmes and more), however he did not shy away from orchestral works, composing 5 symphonies, a piano concerto, a symphonic poem in D minor, and the prefatory act to a work called “Mysterium”. Although his works were considered controversial for the time,…

Consciousness is your individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment (CITATION). Your consciousness is always shifting one moment you may be focused on this literature review, a few moments later you might be thinking about the lunch you just ate. Perception however is our recognition and interpretation of sensory information provided by our senses it also provides us on how to respond to the information (CITATION). An ‘out of body experience’ is a…

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Rich Matteson’s Jazz Corner. I listened to two other tapes, and they were all equally interesting. Rich Matteson’s broadcast had a very relaxed feel; even the tone of his voice is relaxing! I really like that he knew exactly what he was talking about; considering his prolific career and vast knowledge of music and jazz, everything he said was relevant, and he was very well-spoken. His broadcast is excellent for discovering jazz songs and jazz artists, as well as…

When Kubrick unleashed his final cinematic work Eyes Wide Shut in1999, like all his previous films, it was grievously misunderstood by audiences and critics alike. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), Kubrick upholds a psychoanalytic parallel between the two, as the source story heavily borrowed from Freud’s theory of life (Eros) and death instincts (Thanatos). The task of transporting the overall…

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or better known as LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman in 1938 in an attempt to find a blood stimulant. After accidentally absorbing a small amount of the drug through his fingertips, Hoffman realized the powerful and pleasant psychedelic effects the drug had and researched the psychological effects of the drug years after. This quote is from Hoffman's journal and is his description of his first LSD trip “I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world…

his message. The first line, “No Madonna and Child could touch," displays an iconic religious image where Mary saw Jesus die on the cross — creating ominous foreboding. Achebe also combines the senses of touch and smell by using a technique named synesthesia in the line “the air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,” as “heavy” relates to touch and “odors” relates to smell. This makes the reader imagine the unhygienic conditions in the camp. There are a lot of death connotations used. “Ghost,”…

Today I would like to propose a film adaptation of the poem, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. There have been very few adaptations of the work since its creation, and none within the film industry, so it would be a perfect, new medium for the story to be told. With the recent successes of films like Gone Girl and Nightcrawler, there is a clear public desire to witness passion, egotism, and sociopathology unravel; the narrator from “My Last Duchess” would provide a new archetype for these…

Inside your skull is about one and a halfkilos of meat that somehow manages to keep you breathing, help you remember where your wallet is and remind you which is the best hole to put your lunch in not that One. And you know what, maths tests aside, it normally does a pretty decent job of stuff. But when you are dealing with something so unbelievably complicated, among the billions of humans all over the planet, you’re occasionally going to have some pretty unusual brain anomalies. There’s the…

Disability may only be a matter of judgement. This concept appears in Homer and Langley, where Edgar Lawrence Doctorow depicts the possibilities in the life of a blind protagonist, Homer Collyer. Although Homer discerns darkness in a negative connotation, darkness can only be seen and sight is not the only sense for humans. Thus, blindness does not replace the senses or disconnect the Collyer brothers from the world. In a passage on page 159, Langley Collyer’s theory of replacement enables Homer…