Arthur Rimbaud Nihilism

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine, and we can hear that in “Viva la Vida.” As the song starts off, he says that he used to rule the world and seas would rise when he gave the word, but then says that he now sweeps the streets he used to own. This shows us that he was ambitious when he was king, and he treated people bad. Ambition also made him feel a big change in his life, because he says that one minute he held the key, and then says that the walls were next to him.

Your first thought is the love between the couple is toxic and lethal yet, he cannot resist his partner. But, really it is a reference to Cocaine. Cocaine is given a female voice. He uses personification by bringing the drug to life, where it can communicate with him and become part of his life. He knows that this “girl” meaning, Cocaine is going to be the death of him. While in use of Cocaine he gets numb. “But at least we’ll both be beautiful and stay forever young/ This I know, (yeah) this I know” (3-4). You say again, that he is singing about how the love is so very satisfying. But he is actually meaning that his desire for this young and beautiful woman makes him feel good. He feels as if he is invincible when he has her. Even though he seems to be aware of the consequences that come with feeling young and beautiful; with the use of Cocaine. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’/ She told me, ‘Don’t worry no more.’/ We both knew we can’t go without it/ She told me you’ll

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

He defines his life’s work as uniting the whole world as an empire. His image of himself is a man who hates luxury,as a king to rule people and to find others with talent to rule unde him.

With his newfound success, the artist’s life began to take a turn for the worse. According to Héctor, in one of the many private parties he went to after shows he came across a table full of drugs and drug users. Some say the drug addiction was sparked when he married Puchi since she was well known for moving in an environment of drugs and conflict. He began to smoke marijuana and snort cocaine, but his true love became heroin. He fell so in love with the drug that it began to take over his life until his continuous use of the drug managed to infiltrate and ruin his personal and professional life. Heroin became more important to Héctor and he began to miss practices and show up late to events (Rodriguez, 2007). The lack of punctuality to his events gave rise for a nickname, a sarcastic name that titled him “The King of Punctuality,” which later was the name of a song written for him by Pacheco (Perez, 1999).

While some feel that they don’t fit into the society around them and use gangs as a surrogate community they can belong to, others join for protection against the world. Still others may join because they are looking for a sense of family and others simply because they want to, but once in, la vida loca gave many what they were missing: power, control, and a sense of belonging. Often the problem with gangs is not that so many people join, but that very few ever get out. Rodriguez was “lucky” in the sense that he was able to zone into his interests in poetry and the acquisition of knowledge and they eventually guided him out of the Lomas gang. He was able to realize that gang life would eventually take him to the grave with no accomplishments to justify his death and instead focused on helping others see the way

In Gardner’s writing, On Moral Fiction, he speaks of society’s view of morals and how they could be skewed from a reader’s interpretation of an author’s writing. In relation, Ethan Frome and The Awakening deal with different views of the characters passions versus what is morally right in society. These novels represent the ongoing internal confusion within all people of what we believe is morally right or if we should simply follow our passions.

¨La Vida Loca¨. What is ¨ La Vida loca”, what it means is in the book is living the crazy life filled with drugs, sex, gangs, violence etc. Luis Rodriguez shares his life and what he went through when he was a teenager. He also shares how he got involved in “La Vida Loca” through his book Always Running. Rodriguez also wrote about his life through his poems one if them being “Mean Streets”and also “Watts Bleeds”.

“The Egoist’s” first stanzas portray the individual ego as nonexistent and ghostlike. Instantaneously, Neruda boldly asserts, “Nobody is missing from the garden. Nobody is here: / only the green and black winter” (Neruda, 1-2). Repeating “nobody is” attests to the flowers’ lack of self. Similarly, Neruda connoting green and black in the subsequent line asserts nature’s holism. Green, reflecting chlorophyll’s color, represents nature’s power to create and subsist, while black portrays the equalizing emptiness within every being’s essence. By combining repetition and connotation, Neruda propounds dependent origination, a philosophical concept which rejects the independent ego by noticing how all existing bodies rely on others to exist. Consequently, when Neruda depicts the self as a

By once again noting “the hour,” Neruda portrays individuality as perpetuating humanity’s existential woes. Many see the time’s passage as horrid, but nature sees every hour, winter or spring, the same way. However, since the Egoist unfortunately falls victim to the ego’s trap, he cannot experience nature’s wonders.

This unfulfilled desire for joyfulness causes her to think of happiness as a delusion, a sign of her descent into madness. On the other hand, the speaker in “Spinster” longs for control. She contrasts the winter “scrupulously austere in its order of white and black ice and rock, each sentiment within border with the spring’s “rank wilderness of fern and flowers… [and] sloven[ous]”. This person views the disorderly nature of spring as disgusting and admires winter’s orderliness.

“I used to rule the world” (line 1), these words of the poem Viva La Vida describe of a fallen king who once ruled almost every piece of land the world had. The song Viva La Vida is a king that once ruled the world but, consequently lost his pride and power. The book, The Scarlet Pimpernel, is about the French revolution and, ordinarily how the people took over the aristocrats. In Viva La Vida and The Scarlet Pimpernel, each author uses personification to portray the idea that taking too much pride in yourself or overestimating yourself can lead to fatal consequences.

Again, the author selects a new set of imagery, such as stars, moon, sun, ocean, and wood to remind of the heaven in which the speaker used to live, and then to sweep it off right away. The last statement “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (16) finally reinforces the speaker’s loss and unhappiness. In loneliness, the speaker’s love becomes fiercer and more truthful. It is the fierceness and truthfulness that lead the speaker to the last stair of hopelessness. The end of the poem is also the hopeless end of the speaker’s life because of “nothing …good.”

And if he hadn’t lived like this he wouldn’t have had his phonograph, radio, car, and frigidaire. However, it was also this conduct that turned him into a follower, unable to make decisions for himself. This is shown in lines 23 and 24 when the speaker says, “he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. He even had five children, which was the right number for a parent in his generation”. He did everything by the book just like everyone else of this time.

Nihilism in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons has several characters that hold strong views of the world. For example, Pavel believes that Russia needs structure from such things as institution, religion, and class hierarchy. On the other hand, Madame Odintzov views the world as simple so long as she keeps it systematic and free from interference.