David Holsinger’s “On a Hymnsong of Philip Bliss” is a moving piece for concert band that is based off text whose history dates back to 1873 when the lyricist Horatio G. Spafford wrote them in response to the sinking of the S.S. Ville du Havre and subsequent deaths of his four daughters who were on the ship with their mother heading to England. Supposedly‚ when going to meet his wife‚ Spafford stopped near where his daughters drowned and began to create the text for “It is Well With My Soul” (Holsinger
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One Art This poem trains to develop the spirit of resignation on the loss of persons‚ places and things however valuable they may be. It arouses casual relationship with the material things failing which people usually get abnormal on the loss of their cherished objects. You can see the example of the poetess’ mother who had been mentally retarted and spent her life in asylum. The poem is simple but the message is everlasting. Look with Muslims‚ they are religiously bound to say Inna Lillahe Wa
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In both of Katherine Mansfield’s stories‚ “The Garden Party” and “Bliss” we can find this “multiple personality” in the main characters. In the first one we have Laura‚ who is a young lady of a well-positioned family in an upper class neighborhood. The young woman’s world is presented almost like a fantasy; the description of the environment is filled up with “perfect beauty”. The girl is not like the other members of her family‚ she seems to reflect about the things she is doing and is affected
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Is Ignorance Bliss? Truman’s point of view I Truman Burbank think that Ignorance is not bliss. Recently‚ I have just found out that I was trapped in a dome and was a television show. First‚ I feel like that imprisoning me was inhumane. I think from keeping reality from me is wrong because I was born like any other normal human being but I wasn’t given the same things. Even though I was brought and raised in this dome. Having my wife‚ my friends‚ and my parents are wrong because they
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WW1 poetry 1) The first poem‚ “Who’s for the game”‚ is written in 1915. 1915 was the second year in world war one‚ and thereby the beginning. Therefore‚ England needed as many young men as possible. At least Jessie Pope meant that. Around 5 million soldiers was the total number of the British army during the whole war. At the beginning of the war‚ the British army consisted entirely of volunteers‚ and they had quite a smaller army than France and Germany. This might be why Pope wants to get
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As I walk down the street with my friends‚ I think the mouse is squirming in my trouser pocket. But‚ for the sake of secrecy‚ I can’t reach down and hold the lump from moving because a woman hobbling along the street has just seen it too‚ and she gives me a disgusted look and quickens her pace. We get nearer to the sweet-shop and the critter in my pocket is thrashing like mad‚ and I notice that the man in rags whom I usually give my spare change to‚ does not seem keen to ask me for anything that
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Analysis of ‘Diptych’ ‘Diptych’‚ by Robert Gray is a free verse poem in which imagery is used to invoke feelings‚ but also specifically influence a reader’s first impression of character. Throughout the poem Robert Gray has swayed natural speech‚ used strong imagery and also included poetic tone to create a poem which allows insight to his childhood. Robert Gray has explored his parent’s struggles during their marriage‚ in the poem ‘Diptych’. He likens his childhood experiences to a diptych hinge
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Debra Marquart uses her poetry to explore ideas of identity and projection. Specifically‚ how people tend to project their own stories and ideas onto passing strangers. When interacting with or observing a stranger there is no context to what they were doing before you crossed paths. Marquart’s poem is clearly not talking about herself when she creates these interesting backstories for a person she has no understanding of. This is exemplified by the statement‚ “I think of the one to whom bad news
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Charles Bukowski "I photograph and record what I see and what happens to me. I am not a guru or leader of any sort. I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it‚ I will accept it. In Europe where my work is having much luck‚ various groups have put a claim on me‚ revolutionaries‚ anarchists‚ so forth‚ because I have written of the common man of the streets‚ but in interviews over there
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later years led Romantic writers to write of the Emperor of France’s cruelty‚ escaping to nature to flee the real world and its problems. William Wordsworth became one of the most influential poets of the Romantic period displaying throughout his poetry his love of nature which he discovered at a young age. Wordsworth’s poems often present an instant when nature speaks to him and he responds by speaking for nature. “Tintern Abbey” explores the ways in which observing natural beauty can deepen human
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