explores the ancient Greek struggle for mortal men to attain immortality through glory in battle‚ and even death. Those who achieve great kleos‚ honor and courage in battle‚ are respected and loved by their families and kinsmen‚ while those who turn away from it are scorned and disparaged. Even faced with inevitable death‚ the epic heroes of The Iliad choose to war so they may overcome the impermanence of mortality and realize immortality in their remembrance. The idea that kleos is such an integral
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All the provided poems portrays many facets of love within the human experience. These facet explores various elements of love that many can resonate with. In the poem "Ode to my Socks" the poet express his utmost apprecaitation of his handmade and much needed gift of wool socks for the winter weather. To the point of feeling unworthy and honored at the same time. "my feet were honored in this way by these heavenly socks"and "my feet seemed to me unacceptable like two decrepit firemen‚ firemen unworthy
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In life today‚ people tend to over exaggerate the phrases “happy as a clam” and “living the dream.” Dean Young‚ the author of “Clam Ode”‚ expresses how he relates to every other American struggling to find happiness in their life but in the end wishing to be comparable to a clam who is content with where he is in life. As humans we have the natural reaction to want more than we already have. We often focus on what is ahead of us or what we could have‚ rather than appreciating and accepting the pleasantness
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Wrestling; when most people hear the word‚ they imagine a hefty man with bulging muscles in a skimpy singlet‚ throwing other men across the mat. In reality‚ this is not the case for all wrestlers. They don’t all have hulk like physiques. No one could have imagined a small‚ lean 5’3 girl like myself be a wrestler. Barely weighing over 100 pounds‚ I struggle with the dirty looks and glares I get. The news spread like wildfire around my gossip-loving-school that there was a girl on the wrestling team
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The movie that we watched was about reviving a person from the dead. This is said to be done in the future but they had already started researching how to use ice as a power to revive a clinically dead person. They used ice as a method to preserve a body and now they are planning on how to revive a person through the use of nanotechnology that can repair all the cells that were ruptured n the freezing process. The technology that they were referring in the movie is called Cryonics. This Cryonics
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In Ode to a Nightingale Keats introduces the reader to his discontent with the void of feeling he is experiencing. In the first line Keats says how his‚ “heart aches” which the reader would interpret as pain; however the second half of the first line he describes‚ “A drowsy numbness”. This tells me that Keats is uncomfortable with the “numbness” he experiences. In the second line Keats says‚ “as though of hemlock I had drunk”. Norton foot notes tell us that hemlock is a poison that acts
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"Ode to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war‚ rationing of food‚ limited transportation‚ a difficult time to import items from other states and then adjustment from war of peace. Winter did not just represent cold‚ snow‚ wind‚ gray sky‚ limited sunshine‚ but a limiting of the senses. With this in mind it have also been difficult to obtain an orange that would
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The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats depicts the images and stories on a Grecian urn. Keats has the reader think about the difference between changeable real life and the immortal and permanent life on the urn. Also‚ the reader becomes mixed between observation of the art and participation in the art. The first stanza depicts the urn as an "unravish’d bride" and a "foster child" (1-2). These words describe the urn as unaffected by time and immortal. Keats also seems unable to distinguish
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now seemed to overwhelm and constrict me as I longed for the flexibility of digitized text. The computer is the latest development in writing technology; a promises to change literary practices for better. Bonnie Laing‚ the author of the essay “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” is strongly against the boycotting pencils. Unfortunately‚ Laing’s argument that the pencil is superior to a computer is poorly demonstrated due to her biased diction towards analog writing instruments and ignorance of the
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An ode to my sunglasses There is something about my golden aviator sunglasses that is more than sun protection‚ more than anybody else can ever imagine. Every time I put them on I instantly become happier. A lot of women around the world have the same pair‚ as they were mass-produced by the brand Guess‚ and so mine isn’t unique at all in that sense. Neither is my happiness triggered by a materialistic satisfaction by wearing a “brand”. I received them from a special person‚ when I
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