The Unknown Citizen Wystan Hugh Auden (To JS/07/M/378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) 1. He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be 2. One against whom there was no official complaint‚ 3. And all the reports on his conduct agree 4. That‚ in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word‚ he was a saint‚ 5. For in everything he did he served the Greater Community. 6. Except for the War till the day he retired 7. He worked in a factory and never got fired‚ 8. But satisfied
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H Auden’s poem Funeral Blues‚ James Dickey’s The Leap‚ and the Disney movie directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams Big Hero 6. James Dickey was an American poet born on the twenty third of February‚ 1923 (James (Lafayette)). As a child‚ Dickey was interested in sports. As he grew up‚ it is thought that his father’s reading of Ingersoll speeches influenced him. This was evident in his skills as a college lecturer and as a reader of his own poetry. He eventually became known
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Analysis:W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” 01. Analysis of W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” .“The Shield of Achilles” belongs to W.H.Auden’s collection The Shield of Achilles published in 1955The classical myth of Achilles is employed by Auden to exemplify the contrast between the valiant past and unheroic present. The myth of the past is juxtaposed with the reality of the present. The classical world is set against modernity. Monroe.K.Spears asserts that the shield symbolizes images of
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In Jill Conner Browne’s “Funeral Food” she implies a message to the readers. The message she implies is that even when someone when someone dies and you go to a funeral there is always a better side to everything. Her humorous approach to death and the mourning process that follows is one of her many ways to make her essay more effective. She uses her sense of humor to lighten the mood and distract the reader from the funeral aspect. Her distraction comes from her sarcastic jokes about food being
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traditional funeral is basically a ceremony in a church or home where you celebrate and remember the life of a person who has died then proceed to the burial and repast. In New Orleans‚ things are done a little different and by different I mean Jazz Funerals. Jazz Funerals combines elements of African‚ French and early American funeral ceremonies that features a brass band‚ two lines of mourners which includes family and friends of the deceased‚ and many social clubs. Jazz funerals can be the total
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Death‚ sounds scary right? But‚ have you ever thought in something else besides the moment itself? Have you thought about what your body is going to be done with? Oh sure‚ a regular funeral or a cremation may come right away to your head. But‚ let’s stop at regular for a moment. What is actually a regular funeral? Is it really putting your body in a coffin and burying it in a graveyard? What would you think if I tell you that you can have a Coca-cola coffin‚ a fish or a car coffin? What would you
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The Athenians in ancient Greece have been known as being a historically significant civilization with exemplary moral and legal codes that have been used as a model for democracy in the western civilization. However‚ in Pericles’ Funeral Oration‚ Pericles expounds on how the Athenian mentality and way of life is superior to all the others due to the values that they deem as important in their society. According to Pericles‚ the Athenians consider themselves to be an intellectual people that treat
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Saurav Sharma English 11 Mrs. Hotchkiss 11/4/12 The Allegory of the Funeral Funerals: the encapsulation of morbidity‚ alongside the certainty that something has been lost. Funerals are done so systematically‚ that one begins to feel more and more despondent as they continue. Emily Dickinson in her poem “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain”‚ uses this systematic organization of a funeral to provide a familiar situation that readers can understand‚ and that also emphasizes the loss of her
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AS2 Assignment 1 Compare the poems Remember and Funeral Blues on the their poetic form‚ structure and language In this assignment I will be comparing the poems Remember by Christina Rossetti and the poem Funeral blues by WH Auden. I will show some intensive points of comparison in the form‚ structure and language used and how both poems deal with love‚ tranquillity‚ peace and death. Both poems are about the feelings of love and death. There is a universal feeling between love and death‚ as
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On October 9th‚ 2013‚ my Grandmother died from cancer. Two days later we were at the funeral home a couple of minutes away from her house in urban Philadelphia. When we got out of our car I felt a strong brisk of wind and a cold chilling sense down my spine‚ “This isn’t going to be a good day.” I thought to myself and walked up the ramp and into the funeral home. I immediately noticed an overwhelming smell. Like elders and salt‚ probably from the tears that were shed here. I looked around and walked
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