1. What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of "Old Ironsides"? He refers to the ship as a meteor in the first‚ and in the second he calls it an eagle‚ being chased by harpies. 2. In 1830‚ the 44-gun American warship Constitution‚ the inspiration for "Old Ironsides‚" was scheduled to be scrapped - that is‚ stripped of everything valuable or reasonable. What proposal is put forth by Holmes‚ in the last stanza of his poem? Holmes is saying that it would be much
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The Metaphysical Pizza as Sliced by Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle were Greek philosophers who lived within the third and fourth century BC. Thought Aristotle was a student of Plato‚ they each had very different ideas or theories on how life is or Metaphysics. Plato theorized that reality was outside of our physical world and outside of most humans understanding‚ while Aristotle theorized that this physical world was the only world and the only reality. Plato looked for a universal
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The Arguments for God’s Existence Intelligent Design means the theory that life‚ or the universe‚ cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity. Natural Selection means the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin‚ and it is now regarded as be the main process that brings about evolution. Necessary Being means Numinous
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Social Evils in Pakistan Outline: 1) Introduction: a) Man is a social animal. b) What is evil? 2) Different types of social evils a) Adulteration in different commodities b) Smuggling c) Drug addiction 3) Spread of social evils a) Different countries are affected from social evils b) Pakistan is one of the major effected countries. 4) How they are harmful a) They are harmful to the public health. b) They are playing to lives of the peoples 5) Remedies
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John Donne ’s position as a revered and respected poet is not unjustified. The depth and breath of literary works written about him along with the esteemed position he held among his comtemporaries is evidence of his popularity. As a metaohysical poet his poetry was frequently abstract and theoritical and he utilised poetry to display his learning and above all his wit. He was most certainly an innovative love poet who moved away from the Shakespearian focus on form intensely literary style. He was
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Discuss W.B. Yeats as a modern poet. Answer:- William Butler Yeats‚ one of the modern poets‚ influences his contemporaries as well as successors‚ such as T.S. Eliot‚ Ezra Pound and W.B. Auden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love‚ Irish Nationalism and mysticism‚ but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet he regrets for post-war modern world
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Auden: A Modern Poet To justify Auden as a great modern poet it can be said that Auden stands out among modern poets by his earnest effort to be great modern thinker. He was well versed in history‚ philosophy and theology and had a remarkable grip on contemporary currents of thought in political theory‚ science and psychology. Auden extraordinary style and diction make his poetry strikingly obscure. Sometimes the style makes his poem difficult to understand. This difficulty and obscurity arises
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impact on the poets mind. His love for Maud Gonne‚ Maud Gonne’s marriage to Macbride‚ his marriage to George Hyde Lees and his realization of desolation madu ep his mine to write poetry concerning love. The theme of love appears with different twist and turns in his poems. A lot of Yeats lyric poem delas with love. However‚ in his early love lyrics‚ love was vague. Fleeting emotion. It was his meeting with Maud Gonne at the age of twenty three‚ that transformed yeats into a great love poet. Henceforth
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Modern day poet In spite of the Pastoral element that was predominant in all of Robert Frost’s poems‚ he was still considered a modern poet because the poetry that he wrote was well endowed with the many problems that men who lived in the modern world faced with Science and Technology. He was a contemporary and great friend to such modernist greats as Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. Although he resembled these modernist poets‚ Frost was quite different from the rest of the modern poets of his time
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According to Aristotle‚ Form * Is that which disciplines‚ directs and constrains matter. * You are a bit of matter come to existence with various forms that are within. If the form of being triangle makes it possible to have a certain degree‚ then your form should be giving you that kind of necessity. Forms bring you into reality. When form brings discipline‚ structure‚ through time in the universe does it do through discipline. Determinism is whatever is going on is the only way things
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