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- 2311: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
- ... These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold uses the same method of writing, however he speaks of human history to further support the mood of the "Sea of Faith" and it's "eternal sadness". Arnold writes of Sophocles hearing the "eternal sadness" on "the Aegean" with it's "turbid ... the naked shingles of the world". In the last stanza, Arnold ties all of the thoughts of the speaker together, while incorporating imagery, to illustrate how by examining nature and history, the reader has reached the reality of the inevitable. Arnold portrays how the speaker bitterly sees "the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams" "hath ...
- 2312: Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
- ... which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden, Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135,000 to 250,000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden ... forced to live in. Traflamadorians can "shift" through time as seamlessly as humans can walk towards a point. This ability allows them to focus on the pleasant moments in the history of the Universe and ignore the aspects of time they dislike. Thus, the fire-bombing of Dresden is just a tiny frame in the vast space time continuum. The guilt ...
- 2313: Arcadia As A Postmodern Text
- ... when looked at from different perspectives; some would claim that it is satire on academia and the world of researchers such as Bernard, others would say that was more about history and the fallacies of studying primary evidence. The play utilizes many theories concerning science and philosophies on life, and so many might say this play is about living life, an ... centuries. As the play draws to its end, the table is cluttered with many items; geometrical solids, the computer, tea mugs, Septimus’ books and Hannah’s research papers. All the history represented on the table becomes clutter and untidies the desk. The characters have parallels in the other era, some are easy to spot such as Gus and Lord Augustus and ...
- 2314: Dante
- ... Ninth Abyss, it would deflate his rhetorical position. Instead, Dante first sets up a quite lengthy comparison of the sights he has just witnessed with examples of bloodshed throughout human history: Were you to reassemble all the men who once, within Apulia1's fateful land, had mourned their blood, shed at the Trojans' hands, as well as those who fell in ... his rage being exasperated to madness, had expired in the act of tearing his antagonist with his teeth. (Livy, Book XXII) Dante is legitimizing his poetry with these references from history. In line twelve Dante writes "...even as Livy writes, who does not err--." He is explicitly giving credit to Livy for the ability to describe the blood and wounds of ...
- 2315: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... future (391), he fails to deliver. His book corrects a lot of misinformation about PARC research and Xerox commercialization efforts. It is a good read for anybody interested in the history of technology. It should be required reading for everybody in research management for many examples of what to do and what not to do. This history should also be read by anyone who believes another big leap in software technology can be achieved while research funding is cut back, universities are drained of their talent, and ...
- 2316: Criticism Of Shame
- ... Shame has a vast and exotic a cast of characters as Midnight s Children, and it is as rich in incident, yet it is a wholly different sort of book. History here is a collective fantasy clinging to the dusty deserts and dilapidated cities of reality, not-emanating from the wild imagination of a single, terribly self-conscious narrator. The laughter ... has resisted the temptation to write another exuberant epic. Instead, he has created a concentrated and dark masterpiece, an answer to those who may claim that certain evils of modern history are beyond either representation or translation."(357, editor) Patrick Parrinder agrees with Chaudhuri by admitting, "Shame, his most tightly-controlled and perhaps his best novel to date. . . It is as ...
- 2317: Comparing Two Poems
- ... feel strongly about. The poem Package of the Distant Future tells the story of a person who finds a time capsule from a previous civilisation. The capsule tells a brief history of the people before his or her civilisation came into existence. This poem differs greatly in the subject matter to the subject of The Song of the Whale. This poem ... compassionate feelings from the readers. Great whale, crying for your life Crying for your kind The poem Package for the Distant Future produces images of desperation new generations and the history and evolution of old civilisation being held on a scrap of paper. We had a lot of things we did not like And could have lived without Do not invent ...
- 2318: Comparison Of Animals In Anima
- ... and knew that communism wouldn t work as long as there were power hungry leaders. The total line of events that took place on the Animal Farm totally parallel the history of the Russian Revolution. The animal revolt was supposed to make life better for all animals and the Russian revolution was supposed to fix the problems of the Czar. On ... Animal farm indeed is very representative of the events that took place in Russia. Just about every character in the movie and major plot change has a parallel in Russian history. Putting the actions into animals made the whole sequence of events seem clearer as to just how the Russian dream fell apart so easily due the greed of those in ...
- 2319: Isolation And The Individual I
- ... as Tom Sawyer. One literary critic explained that “Huck assumes either voluntarily or through external pressure ten different identities during his progress down river, inventing elaborate and excessively lugubrious family history for himself” (Strickland 52). The almost uncanny ability of Huck to take on another personality is astonishing, as is his ability to lie on when put on the spot. Curiously ... returns to New York his apartment is ruined by a nihilist that he barely knew and his cat is dead, and he is suspended without a place to belong. His history of pessimism has left him alone and divorced twice: “My second wife had left me on the grounds that I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with” (Vonnegut ...
- 2320: Comparison Of Mark Twain And W
- ... at a meaning. One of the most effective techniques that Pychon uses to involve the reader in his fictional world is his use of details. His mixing of the specific history of Thurn and Taxis in his plot serves to overburden the reader with details that seems to have no relation to the story at hand. ¡§ From the same plastic folder ... the figures 1/4 in the centre, the word Freimarke at the top, and along the right-hand margin the legend Thurn und Taxis¡¨ (p.96). These specific details of history unite the reader¡¦s real world with the fictional one created by Pynchon, thus luring the reader into the character¡¦s search for the meaning of life. We may find ...
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