Tristan

Who can be a hero? Regardless of what most people think, not everyone. If you ask someone to picture a hero they might picture a superhero, celebrity, or famous person from the past. Though they can be seen as heroes sometimes they might not really be. Heroes sacrifice for the good of others, show kindness and integrity when a situation calls, and do not brag and boast. Heroes sacrifice time, energy, and even sometimes their lives for the good of others. One example of a hero doing this is…

Alighieri. Alighieri's work was written to expose the corruption of the church and its leader. Alighieri's series of poems begin with Inferno in which he writes of the nine circles of hell and the sinners that reside in them. Such sinners as Cleopatra, Tristan, Helen of Troy and Pope Nicholas III and Judas, each circle proceeding held sinners of much worse evil. Alighieri's work was highly criticized by the church officials of Italy who were angry that he spoke badly about the church and its…

Kenya, a place in mid east Africa; home to thousands of endangered elephants. Humans aren’t the only living things seeking love and affection, animals do too. Not only do humans have an incredible bond with each other, but humans share this bond with elephants as well. With the ability to foster and adopt an elephant, Meghan Clark, author of “Fostering Family,” a story from U.S. Catholic, argues, “Elephants and humans share a deeply emotional and social nature” (8). Animals, as well as people,…

In Dante’s The Divine Comedy, he describes the very center of Hell as an icy, frozen place. This is a direct contrast to what people normally believe Hell to be like, as expressed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which it is rather described as a place full of fire, a literal furnace. Our minds are immediately drawn to a fiery Hell, as that is what is traditionally pictured in modern-day pop culture and the like. However, I believe Dante was right in his description, that ice is a metaphor…

smart in the music development, he transcribed Beethoven’s 9th symphony for piano at the age of 15. Remarkably, Wagner was a composer, theatre director, conductor, and writer. However, he was best known for his operas. One the most famous opera is “Tristan and Isolda”. Important fact is that Wagner built a new opera house with many new features. Unfortunately, he died of a heart attack at the age of 69 in February 13th 1883 in Venice.…

an essence, Cut-up is very similar to visual art, in that, only the artist (or in the case of poetry, the writer) knows what the true meaning behind the piece is about. The first recognized use of this writing style was in 1920 when a Frenchman Tristan Tzara, co-founder of the Dadaist movement and a poet, challenged to create a poem by pulling random words out of a hat. (Engstrom) For example: Prenez un journal./Prenez des cisnaux./Choisissez dans ce journal (translation, Take a…

negative ones caused by the Industrial Revolution. Another effect of the Industrial Revolution was that the amount of pollution skyrocketed. This was due to the fact there were so many coal fires. This caused many trees to decay. A woman named Flora Tristan wrote a passage in her diary, and in those passages it stated that there was dense fog in the city and that there was a black cloud in London. She stated that it was on days like this that brought depression upon the people of London. So all…

Growing up we are all told that lying is bad, no parent has ever taught a child that lying was something they should be doing. Personally my parents had always been very strict on lying and if I had been caught in the act it was game over. From when I was able to comprehend what lying was and even today I try and be as honest as I can. However this day in particular, I made an exception that I would come to regret. It was a blazing hot May day in the northwest suburb of Chicago, otherwise known…

Ever since I started understanding philosophical ideas, one of the most feared things for me was karma. When people follow their bliss, they forget that the sins they commit in order to attain their bliss will follow perpetually. Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is a prime example of karma which conveys to the audience what to avoid when “following one’s bliss,” an idea of Joseph Campbell. Campbell believes that myths “won’t tell you what makes you happy, but it will tell you what happens when you…

is actually lived in India, in Paris, in Southern France, in London and Cambridge. There are numerous beautiful ‘stories’ within the central story in the style of the Mahabharata – of Iswara Bhatta and his family; of Radha, Krishna and Durvasa; of Tristan and Iseult; of Buddha and Vassita with her dead son in her arms; of Kabir and Ramananda; of Yajnyavalkya and Maitreyi; and many more – each of the stories delightful, poignant, and elevating, but having a value and a significance seen against…