The Loss

particular poem focuses on the simplicity of loss. Specifically, on how easy it is to lose and then move on. Despite the unimportant losses presented in some of the items mentioned, I felt as though the core message of the poem was that it’s easy to lose those around you despite your caution, and eventually, one must learn to move on. A particular line in Bishop’s poem that stood out to me was, “So many things seem filled with the intent / to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”(pg. 11) To…

aspects of loss, cultural and personal to a variety of characters are explored. However, at the end of the film, the tribe and community is reunited and moving forward “together with all of [their] strength”. Hope is signified by the community sailing out into the horizon in the finished waka with their “wise leader” Paikea at the Helm. The overwhelming sense of personal loss is heavily emphasised by Paikea’s reflection of her birth “There was no joy when I was born”. This outlines the loss to…

love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of curation.…

up to the loss. It was the authors intentions to explore various factors leading up to widowhood that affects the surviving spouses ability to overcome and move on from this tragic life event. The death of a spouse or close loved one is probably one of the hardest situations you will be faced with during your life time. Studies have been conducted on bereavement, but most of the cases only focus on the time period following the loss, leaving little know about the effects that pre-loss…

of loss and grief and their effects on the individual exist as key aspects of the growth and development of Hamlet and Holden in their respective works of literature, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The loss of a close family member heavily affects each of the characters, with Holden losing his brother and Hamlet losing his father. Directly following the deaths, each character has an aggressively negative reaction, varying between fits of rage or a temporary loss of…

families, countries, and governments. In addition, death often causes widespread mourning and even panic. But there is never a focus on the beauty of dying itself. Most often, the depiction of dying focuses on the sadness associated with the concept of loss, while in The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien takes a different stance on the depiction of passing. While most authors of war related literature use the idea of death to depict a somber mood, O’Brien utilizes the moment of death to portray…

leaving or sending the setback undesirable things or presents that may go from clearly nostalgic to bizarre, after or sitting tight in for the loss, hurting or undermining to hurt the loss' property, condemning the loss' character, or bothering the loss by methods for the Internet by posting singular information or spreading gossipy goodies about the loss (nij.gov, 2007) Stalking conduct outlines eagerly mirror those ordinary in various forceful conduct at home cases. The illustration is…

grief, and lost what Medea has - and that his loss, in fact, even surpasses hers - serves to explain why he seems to have developed a thirst for destruction: it is a coping mechanism, as much as it is a desire for retribution. That he has lost intangible things like language and song is what is most excruciating; these are, after all, things - parts of his cultural identity and history - that he can never get back. It is important to note that his loss…

the death of many companions. In his poems, Wilfred Owen highlights how soldiers realize that they are not “Brother in Arms” but are just temporary companions who end up separated because of the war. In Anthem for Doomed Youth, Owen writes about the loss of innocence that the soldiers endure. To set the tone of his poem, Wilfred Owen begins with, “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” (Owen, 1). This text demonstrates a literary device of a metaphor where the tenor is implied as “the…

their decision to be moral or corrupt. Many novels use the fight between barbarity and refinement to bring human nature into the stories and simplify the way people operate. In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the archetypes of the shadow, the loss of innocence, and the persona to bring a theme of civilization versus savagery to the whole work.…