“The Sound of the Sea” is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‚ describing the sounds of the sea and relating it to human inspiration. Through only auditory images of the sea and other powerful natural forces‚ Longfellow effectively alludes to the nature of human inspiration. Through detailed and sensory imagery‚ Longfellow communicates the subtle details of the human soul and how inspiration functions. “The Sound of the Sea” consists of fourteen lines and a particular rhyme scheme (abba abba
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indulging ourselves into constant dilemmas. The faint whisper of our subconscious mind sometimes clouds our judgments. How often do we get to take a deep plunge within ourselves and endeavor to answer all the questions that play hide and seek with our consciousness? The true perception of right and wrong has always baffled us. There lies a morbid thin line between right and wrong‚ light and darkness‚ and one shadowy staggering step can lead to our downfall. A decision‚ whether a wise one or a daft one; is
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The idea of abstract concepts has tantalized man since he gained some sense of consciousness; indeed‚ the cave paintings in Lascaux symbolize early man’s desires to understand his concrete world through abstract constructs. The scholarly interpretation of the Lascaux paintings is that early man worshiped the animals and by painting‚ he was thought to invoke its powers. The significance of this scholarly approach is that those scholars were evaluating and interpreting the paintings with their own
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human beings’ know that there is such a thing as consciousness‚ we have all felt it and consequently‚ for us‚ it exists. If someone were to tell us ‘imagine the colour blue’‚ we could easily do so. Even though we do not know if the other person imagined the same blue as we did‚ we are able to imagine more or less the same thing as the other person. This thinking process was conscious and with therefore we have proof that we experience our consciousness‚ arguably every day. This‚ of course‚ makes it
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person would be you.” (384) With this statement‚ Parfit means that we could know the result of what just happened without answering the question. There is only one outcome that is being considered. According to the Bundle theory we cannot explain consciousness by examining a person. The answer is instead in a long series of mental states and different situations. In these different series we experience life through thoughts and sensations. Each life situation or experience is put together by various
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Intro People say that their memories are the most precious things they posses. One may say that memories are “Every man’s memory is his private literature”. - Aldous Huxley. We can say that this can be shown in the works of Andre Aciman in False Papers (Square Lamartine) by and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia. Both authors show attitudes and feelings of nostalgia but have incorporated these feelings in different perspectives and attitudes of what nostalgia is. The question that will be discussed in
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Skepticism About Other Minds One of the core problems of skepticism is that of the existence of other minds. Do other minds exist and‚ if so‚ how do we know this? I posit that not only can we not understand other minds‚ but that other minds do not exist in the first place. This argument rests on the entertainment of several key presumptions. First‚ that we surely know our own minds‚ thoughts‚ and experiences. For example‚ I know when I am in pain‚ I know when I feel hungry‚ and I know when I feel
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cannot be properly understood without some understanding of the political and cultural context in which it was written - and read. In the same way knowledge of a work or genre of literature allows an understanding of its influence upon popular consciousness and the actions of individuals‚ such as Alexander’s emulation of Achilles. Through my reading and schoolwork I have gained a reasonably extensive historical knowledge but the vastness of history makes it necessarily very fragmentary. I find
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Memorial by Norman MacCaig This poem is an elegy‚ a poem that is a lament for the dead‚ for a beloved person in Maccaig’s life‚ probably his sister Frances. It is a sad and beautiful poem about how her death pervades every aspect of his life. He makes it clear that her death is not for him an event that has its place in the past. Instead the process of her dying stays with him constantly- In the opening of the poem he states‚’ Everywhere she dies’ and in the final stanza‚ ‘she can’t stop dying’
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refers to as the Middle Way. He then‚ having the notion that the answer to what he seeks is buried within his own consciousness‚ sits in meditation beneath a fig tree for a duration of four (some say seven) weeks. Throughout this length of time‚ he manages to withstand a barrage of attacks and temptations from the devil Mara while gradually ascending through higher states of consciousness‚ until he transcends the realm of conventional awareness and attains enlightenment. Such is the final aspiration
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