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    The voice of the poet is very somber and we get the feeling of emotionlessness. There is a sense of anticipation for death as “breaths were gathering firm for that last onset.” The poet is very serious in the way that she thinks the idea of the afterlife through. When reading this poem we feel the mood of an anxious person. Throughout the whole poem we are given many descriptive sentences that help us to see what the person dying is seeing. We can interpret the fly as evil or a sign of the body

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    Everyman is a morality play that uses an individual‚ Everyman‚ to represent all men. The play dramatizes his reckoning with death and salvation to show that when one dies‚ all of the things one lives for are taken away‚ and only your good deeds succeed. He uses the characters to teach a moral. The main character in the play‚ Everyman‚ serves as the embodiment of everyman in the world. The moral of this play is a good one. “All things o this earth are mere vanity. Beauty‚ Strength‚ and Discretion

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    the question. There are many contending answers to this inquiry. Most worldviews must acknowledge their belief in the afterlife on untried faith‚ but the Christian hope is sure on two grounds; the resurrection of Christ and the proof of God ’s Word. The Bible provides the true sight of what happens after passing away. However‚ many believers have a misapprehension of the afterlife. Christians can be guaranteed that death is not something to be afraid of. Instead‚ at demise we arrive home in paradise

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    shows that death is unavoidable‚ and is continually occurring‚ even at supposed joyful moments. However‚ Larkin also ends the poem with movement‚ to show that death‚ although inevitable‚ is not necessarily final‚ and that there is potential for an afterlife. The repeated reference to white also serves to show the two sides of death; while it is pure and innocent‚ it is also melancholy. By personifying death‚ Larkin shows that though one can evaluate death from different perspectives‚ it inevitably

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    John Keats poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn" seem to have been written with the intention of describing a moment in one’s life‚ like that of the fleeting tune of a nightingale or a scene pictured on an urn. Within each of these moments a multitude of emotions are established‚ with each morphing from one to another very subtly. What is also more subtle about these two poems is their differences. While they do touch on very similar topics‚ the objects used to personify Keats’

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    Between the Heaves of Storm” (3-4). Here‚ the speaker compares the aura of the room in which she is dying to the calmness before a large storm. The speaker anticipates her death to be a monumental event (whereas she ascends to heaven or some form of afterlife). Her final moments appear silent and tranquil due to the fact the speaker‚ as well as her accompanying mourners‚

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    In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ the protagonist‚ Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death‚ and throughout the play he ponders death from numerous perspectives‚ in numerous times. He isn’t the only character obsessed with mortality‚ a lot of deaths or thoughts of it go on in the play. It is the death of Hamlet’s father that affected him in so many ways‚ and led him to a trauma with the topic. Overthinking made him do horrible things to the important people for him‚ demanding revenge and reacting

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    Death is not only a physical process‚ but a social and spiritual paradigm infused by a culture’s specific ‘beliefs‚ emotions and activities which give it its distinctive character’ (Hertz 1907‚ p. 197). Facing another culture’s beliefs around death can be confronting‚ often creating ethnocentric reactions and cultural misconceptions. Comparing American and Berawan death practices highlights how these rites‚ and the spiritual beliefs underlying them‚ can appear horrifying when viewed only from the

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    demon Ammit. In the afterlife‚ Ancient Egyptians believed that reincarnation occurred and that death was but a mere interruption. In the Ancient Egyptian religion‚ once one has passed away‚ the afterlife would be a very demanding agony. But‚ to first have an afterlife‚ it was believed that one must be ‘mummified’‚ by being put into an ancient Egyptian coffin‚ named a sarcophagus. This was one of the numerous funerary rituals carried out‚ to ensure one has a comfortable afterlife. It was believed that

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    can be found in the closing of “Plato’s Republic.” (614a- 621d) In this closing section Er dies in war but revives twelve days later and tells everyone what he saw in the afterlife. In his recollection there is a heaven‚ a hell and based upon whether or not a person lives justly or not decides where they will go in their afterlife. Er also gives account of reincarnation and the celestial spheres of the astral plane. This Greek tale provides us with the idea that moral people are rewarded

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