Poetry has always been the language of the soul of Nagaland. At its most beautiful it mirrors the joy‚ the glory and the peace that the soul of man can fathom. At its darkest‚ at its most barren it proclaims the desolation of the soul. Nagaland Poets cannot tell the story of Nagaland and the conflict that has been her lot‚ and therefore use poetry as a medium to convey the same. For the story of Nagaland is the story of the Naga soul on a long‚ lonely journey of pain‚ loss and bereavement‚ a silent
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Youth and Poetry Poetry by definition is the art of writing that shows more imagination and deep feeling that ordinary speech. Poetry is a set of sensual words with deep meaning‚ but for some reason young people do not appreciate it. Hugh Maclennan states‚ "For without poetry these youths were poor.” He was referring to a group of teenagers he encountered‚ but this statement can be directed to the majority of youths today. Poetry is dead in our lives‚ and without knowing what it is
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Beauty What is beauty? Beauty can be defined in many ways. For example‚ beauty can be a beautiful or pleasing thing or person. Beauty can be a color‚ shape or collection of things or how that object attracts them. In my opinion‚ beauty comes from within our hearts. In other peoples’ opinion‚ beauty is how a woman looks under all that animals’ carcasses‚ and how her body figure looks beautiful. No matter how beautiful his or her face is with acne‚ they are still not considered beautiful. What
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The Color Red "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul." George Sand hit the nail right on the head when he said this in 1872. Appearance versus reality has been a central theme in many American creative works including the film American Beauty. American Beauty is a film that delves into your typical‚ middle-class suburban American home and slowly uncovers all of the abnormalities that lie within. The family
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Hopkins’ sonnets typically shift from a personal‚ often sensual experience rooted in the physical world to moral‚ philosophical and theological reflections. Discuss this movement in relation to Pied Beauty. Pied Beauty has one simple meaning: to convey the Jesuit motto "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam." Throughout the poem‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins makes shifts from theological reflections to descriptions of physical experiences. The poem‚ like a psalm‚ gives us a confident description of nature as the work
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Beauty is Skin Deep Abstract Beauty is skin deep; refers to the outward beauty of a person. We know and realize that a person can be beautiful on the inside. A person with a beautiful mind‚ we can say him/her as a nice person. But when we listen something beautiful we generally indicate that something outward appearance. So beauty is skin deep; this statement tries to highlight that person’s outward appearance counts for nothing but it is what lies beneath
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John Keats’ essay. The poems written by John Keats are primarily concerned with the conflicted nature of the human existence as they look at the human state often with sadness‚ beauty and the imagination of one’s mind. The metaphysical world‚ beauty in nature and classical idealism are all pondered upon in Keats’ poems as these ideas are evidently indicated in the two poems “Ode on Melancholy” and “Ode To A Nightingale”. The metaphysical world relating to immortality and mortality constantly appears
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drop and a roar hums over four-thousand people. Welcome to a beauty pageant. By definition‚ a beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged on how they look‚ and the winner becomes a beauty queen. Some people try to convince the community that it is just an innocent quest for physical beauty. As the majority of us see it‚ this parade of young female bodies is not entertaining at all. Every year beauty pageants show off over 100‚000 children under the age of twelve
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students. This Socratic Dialogue is set in Ancient Greece around the time of Socrates’s death or 399 BC. Plato desires to give his students a better understanding of Socrates’s thoughts on beauty. Socrates claims to believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. He simply states that once we define beauty‚ beautiful things will appear beautiful. With this knowledge‚ his students and readers can become more educated on Socrates’s profound teachings. Plato wrote Phaedo as a piece of philosophical
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While some people may think that an author does not use any sort of elements of poetry to write‚ they actually do use it more than we all know. They tend to exaggerate a lot when writing‚ making things seem “bigger” and more important. They also use metaphors to compare things to other things totally unlike them. They also use rhyming to its full capability to get their points acrossed. They use rhyme schemes in couplets to get their points across. When an author is writing about something
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