Monks would renounce the world to spend their time in contemplation of and service to God, putting

In his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot subtly conveys a wide variety of Prufrock’s emotions; he creates pathos for the speaker by employing the “objective correlative,” which Eliot defines as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events [that] shall be the formula of that particular emotion” (“Hamlet and His Problems”).

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

In Voltaire’s novella Candide, the main character’s newly found wealth from an idealized Eldorado is exploited by the world’s fixation of greed that ultimately effects himself and others as he learns that money cannot buy happiness.

The poet uses many metaphors, repetition and morbid diction to illicit the response I had to this poem. Firstly, Butson compared the emotions and internal struggles of a

This use of artistic descriptive words creates an image of beauty and peace. Both of these feelings are shown to have been lost by the time he is a

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

Deep within the trees little hooded men walk along a path to meditate and pray dressed in brown robes tied with nautical rope. They dwell in silence and live a life of celibacy. This is what most of think of when we hear the word monk. Throughout the years, monks have always been people of intrigue. They live a different lifestyle than most. They live a life of seclusion far from the mores of modern society, which often makes people ponder who these people really are and why they choose to participate in such a foreign religious movement. This paper will attempt to unravel the mysteries of this peculiar movement of by researching it's origin, the true meaning of a silent lives, and how key leaders have helped to

In this writing, Emerson’s meaningful metaphors proclaim the sheer importance of individuality and how much it is longed for, saying that “every heart vibrates

In "Thou Bland Mans Mark", by Sir Philip, he uses poetic devices such as alliteration, repetition, and symbolism to show how he feels about desire. The speaker of this poem thinks that desire is the "band of evils,"therefore the speaker thinks desire is the beginning of evil. He expresses "with price of a mangled mind". Desire can take over your mind and destroy it. Using a repetition of vain, he tries to get his point across about the awful things of desire. We should not desire things and take what we have in vain. Vain can ruin our thoughts. Symbolism is seen when he speaks about the "blind man." the term "blind man" is also used as an example to the bible. This shows that you can be 'blind' and get led into the sin of desire. Tn the end

Man is plagued with his own desire, leading to corruption and hypocrisy that pollutes the known world. In this world, men are met with tragedy, ranging from natural or Godly devastation, to the constructs he places on himself and to which he forces himself to conform. However, many of them still refuse to acknowledge this adversity, pursuing blind optimism. In his satirical novel, Candide, Voltaire exposes the foolishness of men and highlights the self-destructive nature of the world, thereby challenging the concept of blind optimism and arguing that one can be aware of their world and still enjoy life in it. Most specifically, Voltaire criticizes German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz’s through his own Leibnizian optimism, that this “is the best of all possible worlds”. Voltaire successfully refutes such ideology through the journey of his naive adventurer, Candide, and eventually settles that one can lead a happy life without being blindly optimistic.

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

It deciphers a vitality of nature and harmony. Meanwhile, the third stanza explains how it elicit the raw emotion of the narrator. Mckay purposely compares one scene as the reminiscent of the next. The comparison evokes a certain grief, where a hunger arisen. However, this hunger is a ‘yearning of the familiarity’ (p.148), a craving that paralyses him.

The final formulation of his own life position:”... but let us cultivate our garden”(97). Voltaire summarizes the development of his thought: each person must clearly limit his field of activity, his "garden", and work on it steadily, constantly, cheerfully, without questioning the utility and meaning of his discoveries, just like the gardener day after day cultivating the garden, and it pays in at the end. In Candide, it is said that a person's life is hard but bearable, and thus no one should give up in despair. Although Voltaire has negatives views of the world, it would be mistaken to consider him a pessimist. Voltaire shows an amusing form of unfortunate application of optimism.

The presentation explored how Voltaire satirized the idea of determinism and optimism- Enlightenment philosophies that were prevalent during his time. Determinism establishes that God sets a path for each person to follow regardless of their decisions and optimism establishes that all is for the best. Several events during Voltaire’s time lead to his disbelief of the philosophy such as the Lisbon Earthquake and the Seven Years War. Voltaire challenged these beliefs by attempting to show death and destruction throughout “Candide” and consequently showing philosophers such as Pangloss attempting to justify the events. The theme of determinism/ optimism is carried out throughoutthe novella in a satirical manner in order to show the public the absurdity of the

Stevens makes this fact apparent from the beginning of the poem, when he notes not only “human revery” but also “the sexual myth” and the “poem of death” (1). Therefore, these defined formulations are only categories of a greater whole, which remains unmentioned in the poem. In deliberating on Stevens’s poems, we can come to understand this encompassing whole as the imagination, which impels an individual to make “eccentric propositions” about his or her life and fate (4-5, 10).