The Immortals

From the start, this poem already sounds gloomy and depressing, which lets the reader know that his thoughts will not be the happiest when it comes to aging and mortality. This gives the overall poem a melancholy tone. This quote from the poem is saying that, no matter what, the young have the same fate as everyone else. Death is not something to be avoided and the author believes that aging is a sad process. This quote allows the reader to see what being old means to the author. To him, being…

the brave with the weaklings” 19.318-19. Achilleus realizes that despite his desires, mortality binds him. He recognizes the broken system of the Greek heroism and struggles with the concept of mortality. In Greek legend, Zeus, knowing that an immortal son of a powerful goddess like Thetis would overthrow him, married off Thetis unwillingly to a mortal, thereby dooming all of her children to mortality. Thus, robbed of his divinity, Achilleus constantly reaches for it, knowing it is rightfully…

In Phaedo, Socrates claims, in his second argument, that learning is essentially the art of recollecting things we knew before we were born. He goes on to give a definition of recollection, that states that true knowledge is found in the eternal forms that exists outside of perceptible reality. Socrates insists that the process of recollection works in a way that if you see a “lyre” or an article of clothing of a beloved, you will immediately be reminded of whose lyre or clothing it belongs to.…

Plato’s Phaedo is set in the city of Philius where a follower of Socrates, named Phaedo, meets Echecrates, a thinker. Echecrates was very interested in Socrates’s final hours before he died and Phaedo was the best person to tell the story since he was present on Socrates’s last day. In Phaedo, there are two separate degrees of narration: Phaedo is telling Echecrates the story of Socrates and Socrates’s final philosophical discussion prior to his death. The reason for Socrates’s death was that…

Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951), an unwitting source of first known human immortal cell line or HeLa cell line, and served a vital role in development of the polio vaccine, uncovered secrets of cancers, viruses, in vitro fertilization, and more. She being a poor and African-American had limited opportunities for her cancerous tumor treatment. Yet, the cells that were taken without her consent are still alive today in many biological companies throughout the world and contributed for all types of…

The relationship between the people of ancient Greece and their Gods is often a complicated one, man recurrently feeling at odds with their many fickle Gods, who can be struggling with dilemmas and agendas of their own. In literature we often look for conflicts to be Man vs Nature or Man vs Man, however much of Greek literature is influenced by the relationship between themselves and their Gods establishing a far more intricate conflict premise of God vs God vs Man. In H POEM we learn about…

Li Bais poems tend to be backwards looking. The revival of the past and the „fulfillment of past promises“ is a common theme in his poems. One nod to the past is his interest in the old Chuci poems which also features supernatural phenomena. The Chuci also focuses on rare animals and plants which were believed to prolong ones life or induce trance. CL124 Which is comparable to taosit alchemy which has a similar approach. In general Li Bai was fond of many styles but also idulged in the old gu…

After reading the “The Uncanny” it is clearly evident that Edgar Allan Poe the author of “The Fall of The House of Usher” used the theories within “The Uncanny” to develop his plot, character development and his entire story. The story written by Edgar Allan Poe takes place in a gothic scenery and is about twin, Madeline and Roderick Usher. The two twins suffer from a line of diseases that seems to be found in every generation. Before reading one knows that Poe’s style of writing is very…

of his fellow Greek soldiers than in preserving himself and because he is able to perform tasks that no one else could such as convincing Achilles to let him take the Myrmidons to battle while wearing Achilles’ armor, leaping his chariot with the immortal horses over a daunting trench, and dying in battle, giving Achilles the will to fight for the Greeks. After the battle over Troy's city has raged and killed many, Patroclus comes to Achilles. He begs him to fight for the Greeks. When this does…

immediately end your life.” “Well that would be a threat if I wasn't an immortal.” “If anyone except the person that just magically healed me told me that I wouldn't think they're crazy.” “I just have one question for you Mr. Carroll what about your son is he immortal too?” “Yes he is.” “I have seen that spark before in people's eyes it normally only appears when they're scared of me which means you just lied to me.” “No Arthur is immortal just like his father.” “If that were…