True Love

In the works of Wislawa Szymborska, the writer portrays death in different perspectives. The writer’s unique views of the world and her fascination with death are what create different themes in her poems. Whether positive or negative, the writer personifies death as a figure to recognize. Wislawa Szymborska sections her idealism of death into different themes.

The Russian attitude toward love during Chekhov’s time is very patriarchal and is considered normal to marry for practical reasons, parental pressures or other considerations rather than for love. The feelings that accompany love, such as passion and spirituality, are not a societal consideration and this institutional attitude toward human emotion is the catalyst for Chekhov’s story. When a person is deprived of love, he or she builds up a futility of life which consumes the human soul. In Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog”, the readers are placed in a setting where the main character Gurov, and his love interest Anna, are given the emotional freedom to feel love toward one another. This freedom is the driving force in the story

Within the poem, Szymborska tells of each characteristic, however, he keeps his voice quite, giving little information on his thoughts. As the poem continues, the reader can infer that the world is a sad place and many don't succeed to the great exceptions that may be set upon them by society. The happy times in life are given to many, and he says that almost everyone is worthy of compassion. Humans crave to be loved, and need the attention to fill the empty whole of validation. He describes many emotions we all face throughout the day. Such as: fear, love, and happiness. He also gives very specific behaviors, “able to admire without envy, -eighteen,” within this he is talking about the emotion of jealousy. As only 18% have to ability to view something of beauty and not wish it about themselves. Szymborska poem shows the behavioral statistics that many might not have been aware of. So, within the words of this work, the reader not only gets to enjoy a grand poem, but learns new information about

about hate as it is about love and the morals of society. The play is

The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The piece states, “Hours after our latest row, brandishing the sharp glee of hate...” (ln 28). This shows that the metaphor compares her “sharp glee” of hatred to a knife. This comparison is hyperbolic, which ends up giving it the sarcastic tone. She also says, “Layers of hate, a parfait” (ln 27). This shows that she is comparing a dessert that is really pretty to hate which makes us believe that this is not true “hate”. This also shows that making us believe if this is true “hate” supports that the tone in the poem is sarcastic. Therefore, metaphors make the poem so over the top giving the poem its sarcastic

The Great Terror was one of the single greatest loss of lives in the history of the world. It was a crusade of political tyranny in the Soviet Union that transpired during the late 1930’s. The Terrors implicated a wide spread cleansing of the Communist Party and government officials, control of peasants and the Red Army headship, extensive police over watch, suspicion of saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, and illogical slayings. Opportunely, some good did come from the terrors nonetheless. Two of those goods being Sofia Petrovna and Requiem. Both works allow history to peer back into the Stalin Era and bear witness to the travesties that came with it. Through the use of fictional story telling and thematic devises Sofia Petrovna and Requiem, respectively, paint a grim yet descriptive picture in a very efficient manner.

(1.5.138-141) This very familiar quote talks about how Julie is in love with her family’s enemy. This is a problem, but that is what had them in lust, is the fact that the two could not be together. Why may this be so specific in the story is because if there was not hate how could there be love. If it was always a dreamy , city then love would feel normal, if there was no animosity then the city of Verona or the Capulet’s and Montague’s would never appreciate how it is such a wonderful thing. This is why having an equal correspondence of love and hate in the tragedy is so important to its storyline. For if no hate there comes no love and for the love of Romeo and Juliet to be so affiliated with the story come to an end by ending the feud and they could be together for once at

The speaker uses words such as “louring” (line 2), “deep deceit” (line 8), “grievous” (line 11) and “bale” (line 140. All of these words have sorrowful and despairing meanings to them which gives the whole poem an unhappy tone. The third and fourth lines discus that the speaker cannot even look at the beautiful face, which appears to grow more attractive daily, of the woman he loves. Moreover, the couplet tells the readers that the sorrow in the speaker’s eyes is there because of the pain he has felt due to his faulty relationship. The mouse that “lies aloof for fear of more mishap” (line 7) shows the misery felt by the speaker by using the words “aloof” and “mishap”. “Aloof” means to be stand-offish or reserved, which the speaker is because if he gets too close, he will be hurt again. “Mishap” means disaster or unfortune which altogether sounds miserable. Had the speaker used diction that was lighter or less depressed, the reader truly would not understand the misery the speaker has went through. The miserable diction depicts the deep wounds the speaker received from his love, shedding light to how much he really loved her and how bad she really hurt

The emotions of love and hate are at the forefront of the theme in this play by William Shakespeare. The Oxford Standard English Dictionary defines ‘love’ as ‘to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family’ and defines ‘hate’ as ‘a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action dislike intensely, to feel antipathy or aversion towards someone or something’. However, words cannot portray such wide and powerful emotions. Love and hate include elements of life, passion, long-term bonding and dislike, disgust and loathing respectively. It is because

Were it a testimony to the rigors and cruelness of human nature, it would be crushing. As it is, it shatters our perception of man and ourselves as no other book, besides perhaps Anne Franke`s diary and the testimony of Elie Wiesl, could ever have done. The prisoners of the labor camp, as in Shukhov?s predicament, were required to behave as Soviets or face severe punishment. In an almost satirical tone Buinovsky exclaims to the squadron that ?You?re not behaving like Soviet People,? and went on saying, ?You?re not behaving like communist.? (28) This type of internal monologue clearly persuades a tone of aggravation and sarcasm directly associated to the oppression?s of communism.

From Stalin’s Cult of Personality to Khrushchev’s period of De-Stalinization, the nation of the Soviet Union was in endless disarray of what to regard as true in the sense of a socialist direction. The short story, This is Moscow Speaking, written by Yuli Daniel (Nikolai Arzhak) represents the ideology that the citizens of the USSR were constantly living in fear of the alternations of their nation’s political policies. Even more, the novella gives an explanation for the people’s desire to conform to the principles around them.

Love is the foundation and the weakness of a totalitarian regime. For a stable totalitarian society, love between two individuals is eliminated because only a relationship between the person and the party and a love for its leader can exist. The totalitarian society depicted throughout the Orwell’s novel 1984 has created a concept of an Orwellian society. Stalin’s Soviet state can be considered Orwellian because it draws close parallels to the imaginary world of Oceania in 1984. During the twentieth century, Soviet Russia lived under Stalin’s brutal and oppressive governments, which was necessary for Stalin to retain power. In both cases, brutality and oppression led to an absence of relationships and love. This love was directed towards

“A Transcultural Monument: Anna Akhmatova in Postsocialist Russia.” South Atlantic Review. 74.2 (2009): 62–81. JSTOR. Web. 28 Feb. 2016. Written by Sarah A. Krive, from the Department of Languages at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the article, “A Transcultural Monument: Anna Akhmatova in Postsocialist Russia” (2009), argues that Akhmatova was a postsocialist poet, because she began producing her work at the end of Imperial Russia and throughout Soviet Russia, until her death in 1966. She believes that Akhmatova was a symbol of strength in her stand against Stalin, and subsequent persecution from his regime. Next she posits that Akhmatova achieved what many Russians could not; she was able to make a permanent record of Stalin’s reign through her poetry. She emphasizes that instead of Russians internalizing the trauma, they turned to Akhmatova and regarded her as the voice of Russia. In the second half of the piece, she details the creation and collection of Akhmatova’s poetry cycle Wreath for the Dead, an elegiac work. Krive discusses elements of Akhmatova’s work of poetry in order to express the importance of the poet as a mouthpiece for Russia. Her audience appears to be any researcher who wishes to further understand the relationship between Akhmatova and Russia. This article focuses on delivering a large measure of information on Akhmatova’s work of poetry, and this will aid the

The purpose of this research paper is to discover why Taras Shevchenko uses of women in his poetry. Along with the poem “Kateryna”, women are used quite heavily by the author. The women in his poetry appear to symbolize the czarist imposition of serfdom in the Ukraine. The irony was written when his own freedom was purchased by a friend. Women are usually seen as becoming impregnated by Moscals and then abandon by their impregnators. Shevchenko desire is to reveal how the czars imprison the Ukrainian people just as women are put into a prison by the seduction of the soldiers from Moscow.