travel was beautiful! Tagore was born in a very Rich family but he was a child without freedom. A prison View next photo er in his own house‚ “ The child who is decked with prince’s robes and who have jeweled chains round his neck loses all pleasure in his play; his dress hampers him at every step” Gitanjali VIII (VIII). “ O fool‚ to try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders! O beggar‚ to come to beg at thy own door! ” (IX) Such a childhood Tagore had to live and no wonder‚ he found his happiness
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William Wordsworth as Founding Father of Romantic Poetry Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins with the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth - co-written
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In the context of its time‚ this painting was created during a time of new isolationism in Japan which is shown in the painting through the solitude of Mount Fuji among the huge rogue waves. Even though Mount Fuji is the center of this piece‚ the overwhelming size of the waves is meant to capture the qualities of yin and yang that identifies with spiritual beliefs and experiences of the Japanese
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are lonely that we truly discover ourselves. The title of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening is appropriate and foreshadowing of the protagonist’s journey into self-discovery. Edna Pontellier is forced into self-discovery when she finds herself in solitude throughout the novel. Edna’s husband‚ children‚ friends and lovers are scarce leaving Edna to be isolated in her own thoughts. Edna is a married woman vacationing at her summer home with her family. Edna’s husband conforms to gender stereotypes
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sometimes getting in ones’ own “zone” or “bubble” away from all the cares of the world is great and much needed at times. Personally I myself find solitude when I’ve finished my work and put the kids to bed and sit in the living room and listen to music. Solitude is helpful in today’s atmosphere where life is chockfull of tension and anxiety‚ relishing in solitude can help us to overpower a number of our evils without really trying anything else. (Pappas‚ 2009) Short-term isolation is therapeutic at times
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Romanticism because of its embedded ideas of solitude‚ individualism‚ pantheism and intuition. Romanticism seeks nature as a means for obtaining knowledge‚ and while Thoreau heavily spends his time in the woods and around the pond by himself‚ he inevitably feels a sense of solitude. Solitude is not necessarily loneliness or intentional isolation of oneself. It is merely an acknowledgment of the fact that he or she is alone. Thoreau has his own thoughts about solitude in which he writes: In the midst of
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characters within his novel in close resemblance to the characters in the Old Testament; for example‚ Remedios the Beauty corresponds a lot to Eve?s character‚ as her innocence contributes to the downfall of others around her. Thus‚ One Hundred Years of Solitude uses biblical allusions to reinforce the themes and symbolism throughout the
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Midnight’s children.Links to other texts. “The Arabian Nights” In Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children‚ the narrator repeatedly compares his own tales of his life to Scheherazade’s‚ and mentions that he can’t "count on having even a thousand nights and a night" (page 4) in which to tell them. The Arabian Nights‚ like Midnight’s Children is an example of what might be called a self-conscious text or a Metafiction: it is a story about telling a story. Midnight’s Children contains many metaphors
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Discuss the theme of suffering in Mary Shelly ’s ’Frankenstein ’ and P.B.Shelly ’s ’Alastor: Or the spirit of solitude ’. The theme of suffering is best conveyed through the "solitary" aesthetic figure of the wanderer or vagrant. Romantic writers produced works revealing extremes of isolation and socialisation‚ creating ’either a wild beast or a god ’ and proving that although solitude can render knowledge‚ it can also be the cause of deep suffering. Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein‚ is an account
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everyday lifestyle that would be genuine and not that of a neighbor. Emerson led by example by leaving the fast pace Boston and moving to rural Concord where he built a small cabin by Walden pond where he lived in solitude searching for his own answers to his own questions in solitude. This later inspired his prodigy Henry David Thoreau to do the same and write a book called Walden. There are still nonconformist today who go against the outline that society has told us we must follow. Emerson
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