Charon’s Cosmology Charon’s Cosmology What does the poem mainly discuss? Death. The poet uses an allusion of Charon to discuss about death. What does the poet mean by “swift‚ cold‚ and deep” in the last line? What is swift‚ cold‚ and deep? The River Styx. This poem is about death. The last line can also be interpreted as the description of death. Death is like a river. River of no return Death Death is swift. What does it mean? You don’t know when you’re going to die. It might happen so
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Lyra: originally called Chelys‚ because of the tortoise shell used as its sound box. According to Nicomachus of Gerasa (Ist cent. AD)‚ the tortoise-shell Lyra was invented by god Hermes‚ who gave it to Orpheus. "Orpheus taught Thamyris and Linos‚ and Linos taught Hercules. When Orpheus was killed by the Thracian women‚ his lyra was thrown into the sea‚ and washed ashore at Antissa‚ a city of Lesbos‚ where it was found by fishermen‚ who brought it to Terpander‚ who in turn carried it to Egypt and
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The Doctor’s Relationships The novel Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood portrays the character Doctor Simon Jordan as an example of one’s professional and personal lives becoming intertwined‚ and how it becomes difficult. Simon has once dreamt of a “long fragment of hair of an unseen woman‚ which is twining around his neck” (Atwood 227)‚ and describes this suffocation as “painful and almost unbearably erotic” (Atwood 227). This quote begins to show what Simon has an affinity for‚ and the type of women
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about a woman who seeks redemption because of having her baby aborted. Her name is never revealed what denotes a serious problem in her identity. She has lost all the human characteristics such as the ability to feel (Atwood 22)‚ love (Atwood 36)‚ dream (Atwood 37) or weep (Atwood 166). She has to go through both physical but mainly mental transformation to realize and find her real self; she has to move from denial to self-knowledge. In this essay I am going to focus on the most important details
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Yes. But is it easy to find such a room where people are holding a funeral in? Absolutely no. The masterpiece-eulogy by Margaret Atwood made it possible. That is right‚ I am talking about “The Great Communicator”(1999)‚ the eulogy to Northrop Frye. Like every other eulogy‚ the main idea of the article is to describe how big the loss was to us upon Frye’s death. Atwood gave numerous examples vividly in a relaxing tone‚ and those examples served as an entity‚ defining who Northrop Frye was. In the
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In the essay‚ "True North‚" Margaret Atwood articulates explicitly that the real north is a dangerous and overwhelming environment for anyone to approach or interact with. Atwood also argues vigorously that the consequence of entering the north is deleterious. In the essay‚ Atwood begins by suggest that the definition of "north" varies among different people from different places. However‚ Atwood explains that her north‚ the "True North‚" is the location of her hometown‚ a place of wilderness where
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perceptions‚ Atwood describes Grace as “an innocent victim of a blackguard forced against [her] will and in danger of [her] own life” (Atwood Alias 23). While Grace is shown to have innocent and endearing qualities‚ in the book Atwood has Grace explore some of the characterizations written about her in the newspapers that challenge the author’s own viewpoint: “I am an inhumane female demon… I robbed a dead woman… I am cunning and devious” (Atwood Alias 23). Using these opposing standpoints‚ Atwood not only
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How does Margaret Atwood communicate her ideas to the readers? Consider: Atwood opens the poem by painting a picture-perfect and rather unrealistic and pretentiously beautiful Canadian suburbia. It was obvious‚ as readers can tell‚ that Atwood was irritated by the unnatural uniformness of the suburbia. Atwood collectively refers to the suburbia as “the sanities”. While many may think being sane is a good thing (as opposed to being insane)‚ the writer may have opined otherwise. Being sane does
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“Take back the night” with a group of other women‚ dressed in the same fashion; holding a stick‚ a part of a banner (Atwood 119). She was similar to Moira because they both were very strong willed
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Margaret Atwood use the myth of the sirens to show that there is always something in the world that can affect someone to the point of changing their mind. In the poem “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood the poem is explaining life from the viewpoint of the sirens and explaining how being a siren affects them negatively. An example of this is when Margaret Atwood quotes “I don’t enjoy it here squatting on this island looking picturesque and mythical.” (Atwood‚ 13-15). The tone of
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