Analyses of Audens Funeral blues The poem funeral blues is written by W.H. Auden in 1936 and its main themes are time‚ death and love. The lyrical I in this poem is a love one left behind‚ who describes the funeral of a man‚ the feeling involved and the future ahead. The poem is metrical since it has 4 stanzas with 4 lines each‚ the poem has end rhymes in every 2 lines‚ and the first and third line in every stanza contain the same amount of syllables same goes for the second and fourth line.
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The Seven Deadly Sins are as follows: * Pride- An over high opinion of oneself; exaggerated self-esteem; conceit‚ arrogance‚ vanity‚ self-satisfaction. * Lust- Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth. Sex‚ power‚ or image can be used well‚ but they tend to go out of control. * Greed- Excessive desire for acquiring or having; desire for more than one needs or deserves. * Envy-Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy is
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14 Bless them which persecute you: bless‚ and curse not. 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice‚ and weep with them that weep. 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things‚ but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible‚ as much as lieth in you‚ live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved‚ avenge not yourselves‚
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beings are the same in that every person possesses a body‚ mind in the form of intellect‚ and a soul. By this reasoning everyone is same and no one is above or below another by profession or status. Aurelius states that one should‚ “…be free from vain conceit with regard to worldly honours…” meaning that one should not expect or have a desire for bodily praising (Meditations‚ 1.16). Due to this belief that Aurelius has‚ one is able to see that no praise or honor is needed for a body that is exactly the
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which is a personality disorder in which one is over confident of himself. Emily Bronte exemplifies the personality of narcissism within her book‚ Wuthering Heights‚ through the feelings of greed‚ vanity‚ and conceit that the characters of Heathcliff‚ Catherine Earnshaw‚ and Edgar Linton exteriorize to strengthen the plot‚ which will end up being a factor to their destruction. Everyone is a narcissism to a certain degree‚ which
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(1) In the entrance to the former of these — to clear the way and‚ as it were‚ to make silence‚ to have the true testimonies concerning the dignity of learning to be better heard‚ without the interruption of tacit objections — I think good to deliver it from the discredits and disgraces which it hath received‚ all from ignorance‚ but ignorance severally disguised; appearing sometimes in the zeal and jealousy of divines‚ sometimes in the severity and arrogancy of politics‚ and sometimes in the errors
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and conflict. His incorporation of his worldly and religious learning’s to poetry enables him to portray his experiences and moods vividly with the use of metaphysical conceits and rich sources of imagery. This essay will first scrutinize into how love was defined before the metaphysical poets the uses of their imagery and conceits and how it differs from Donne’s metaphysical love poetry. Afterwards it will move on to describe how Donne’s personal moods are brought out of his own worldly and religious
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Szymborska IOC: Everyday‚ we take many norms for granted. We take certain things in life as standards and often encounter them without giving so much as a second thought. One of these things is the belief that the value of life of a human vastly outweighs that of an animal – or in the case of this poem‚ an insect. In ‘Seen from Above’‚ Szymborska underscores the ingrained interpretation of the pecking order of life‚ which we take for granted. What does this mean? We as humans do not stop and
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Pride and Prejudice THEME: Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is a tale of love and marriage in eighteenth-century England. PLOT: It centres on the elder sisters of the Bennet family‚ Jane and Elizabeth. Their personalities‚ misunderstandings and the roles of pride and prejudice play a large part in the development of their individual relationships. The spirited Elizabeth and softhearted Jane have to deal with not only their own feelings but also the status of their family‚ both of
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Austen craftily employs this means of communication to make both obvious and hidden statements about the senders. For example‚ Mr. Collins’s letter plainly demonstrates his rudeness and conceit through his language‚ but Austen’s clever choice of omitting the sisters’ reactions provides strong support that this is his normal behavior. Similarly‚ Jane’s letter reinforces her consistent tendency to withhold quick judgment. Finally‚ Mr. Darcy’s
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