Joycean Quotes From Arsene

The absence of meaning in both Carroll and Lear’s poems is significant, even though it may seem like the opposite. When reading these poems for the first time, the reader may be

Despite the differences in context, a comparative study of the poetry of John Donne and Margaret Edson’s play, ‘W;t’, is essential for a more complete understanding of the values and ideas presented in ‘W;t’. Discuss this with close reference to both texts.

Upon reading Michael Oakeshott’s “The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind”, the contributions made to Diamond’s work can be applied in the following reasoning. Oakeshott states that as human beings, we are “the inheritors”, the inheritors of an intellectual “conversation” begun long ago, that has continued throughout time. I relate this idea of being an “inheritor” as receiving information and knowledge from previous times and previous peoples. The contributions made to the novel selected for this essay are indeed part of this “conversation” between human beings. The author has engaged in his own conversation relating to his topic for his work, further perfecting the art of intellectual conversation through learning and being involved with other conversations- such as the sources he has cited and studied to add to his library of conversational skills to add to the world. Diamond has significantly contributed to this intellectual conversation, not only by listening to the voices of others to expand his repertoire of conversing, but also by challenging past voices. He has listened and engaged himself in the past voices he has been able to “inherit”, but has also engaged in self-inquiry to potentially be a newer, even more significant

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” - Confucius

Joyce 's novel demonstrates a city and a society full of contradictions, parochial ideas, and paralysis. The Dublin inhabitants are divided by the river Liffey, into 'North and South ', 'rich and poor classes

Edna’s character is framed through these binary forms and her awakenings are highlighted throughout the text. This paper will argue that the characters in The Awakening are juxtaposing each other throughout the narrative. In The Awakening, Edna is torn between influences of society and individual happiness. Leonce and Robert are two characters that show keen differences although, there are differences there are also

I like your quote but I what find amazing about this quote, is the fact that it emphasizes how people who fail to learn will be condemned to repeat it. Condemned, here illustrates that the past which is hunting will be repeated. For example, many of us have heard or watched movies pertaining to the Holocaust; but there a section of the society who believes or pretend the holocaust never took place. For those people, when this event appears on the horizon the will be condemned because they refuse to believe the first

These lines clearly mark a point at which Paulin chose fidelity to Ismene 's Irishness over fidelity to Sophocles 's politics. However, these lines also raise questions about the nature of Irishness. Is Ismene 's rational response, in the original, inherently un-Irish and untranslatable into an Irish context? And, if so, is Paulin suggesting here that the Irish are the overly-emotional and hot-blooded people that stereotypes have made them out to be? More than a simple substitution of standard English for Irish English, Paulin 's translation raises such questions throughout. As he translates, Paulin displaces Irishness, removing it from a familiar context defined by Irish/English dichotomies, character stereotypes, and the trite settings and practices expected of conventional Irish plays.

Firstly, Joyce incorporates multiple figures of speech and elements of design to express a purpose through the events that occur in the story. As mentioned before, this story is written in first person perspective of a boy who lives with his aunt and uncle. The perspective best allows readers to understand what this boy encounters every day and his opinion on certain topics. Furthermore, it also allows readers to perceive the feelings this boy has for a girl. For example, the author mentions the boy playing and says, “The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street. The career of our play brought us through the dark muddy lanes behind the houses…” (Joyce, 1). This quote highlights the lively and childish fun the boy has with his friends.

When the reader is first introduced to this character it is through the listing of three declarative clauses in one of Stephen’s long, complex sentences. It is here that his fragmented memory is emphasised by the fragmented syntax where only glimpses of Mrs

Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” depict a mastery of the dramatic monologue style. Said style contains a narrative told by a character’s point of view that differs from that of the poet.The character’s monologue consists of them discussing their particular situation that they find themselves within, this is meant to convey their internal information to the reader or audience. This in turn allows the reader a glimpse into the personality of the narrating character. Within “Porphyria’s Lover” and My Last Duchess” these monologues are used along with poetic devices to develop unique male personas. Between these two personas there are evident differences in class and within each class social issues arise within each work.

“The relationship between the energies of the inquiring mind that an intelligent reader brings to the poem and the poem’s refusal to yield a single comprehensive interpretation enacts vividly the everlasting intercourse between the human mind, with its instinct to organise and harmonise, and the baffling powers of the universe about it.”

Fitzgerald’s stories often have a lead male character who resemble himself, including the ups and downs of his life. In “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”, Fitzgerald is portrayed as Warren, who Bernice and Marjorie fight over, for he has qualities that girls envy. ‘“You may as well stop making a fool of yourself over Warren McIntyre. He doesn’t care a snap of his fingers about you”’ (Fitzgerald 374). Fitzgerald uses Marjorie to describe Warren to prove that he is sought after by women, even if Marjorie is trying to persuade Bernice to not chase after him because she secretly still wants him and has feelings for him. In “Winter Dreams” Fitzgerald also thinks and portrays himself highly through the character, Dexter. “‘The best— caddy I ever saw,’ shouted Mr. Mortimer Jones over a drink that afternoon. ‘Never lost a ball! Willing! Intelligent! Quiet! Honest! Grateful!’” (Fitzgerald 700).

The metaphysical poets have immense power and capability to wonder the reader and cajole inventive perspective through paradoxical images, subtle argument, innovative syntax and imagery from art, philosophy and religion implying an extended metaphor known as conceit. The term “metaphysical” broadly applied to English and European poets of the seventeenth century was used by Augustan poets John Dryden and Samuel Johnson to reprove those poets for their “unnaturalness”. John Dryden was the first to use the term metaphysical in association with John Donne as he “affects the metaphysics.” Goethe, likewise, wrote, “the unnatural, that too is natural” and metaphysical poets are studied for their intricacy and originality. It will not be irrelevant and absurd to say, “Metaphysics in poetry is the fruit of the Renaissance tree, becoming over-ripe and approaching putrescence” (C. S. Lewis). Scholars described the characteristics of metaphysical poetry from different point of view. They, in fact, lay out the essence of metaphysical poem, as does R.S. Hillyer to call “ Loosely, it has taken such meanings as these--metaphysical poetry as difficult, philosophical, obscure, ethereal, involved, supercilious, ingenious, fantastic and incongruous.”

ame Joyce in his short story “A Painful Case” depicts Mr. Duffy as a narcissistic and selfish man who is so obsessed with himself that he is incapable of any deep interaction or bonding with others. The story begins with the description that mr. Duffy "lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen” (103). This self imposed isolation shows a repulsion to his fellow citizens and a disinterest of interaction with them. He seems to be especially disapproving of people who are unlike himself as he is described as having "neither companions nor friends, church nor creed" (105) and how he “abhorred anything which betokened physical or mental disorder" (104). This is the first glimpse into a inherited narcissism so powerful that it has directed his actions to the point that he isolates himself to avoid any interactions with people he deems unworthy to experience. The isolation also further enforces his self obsession because his life consists solely of being by himself and analyzing himself. Joyce notes that during the day he always "lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances" (). He got to the point of self obsession where he would narrate his own day: Joyce described it as a "habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a predicate in the past tense” (). Judgement and narcissism are such a large part of Mr. Duffys life that Joyce twice describes the symptoms in his analysis of him, which he believes were only increased by his isolation.