'Truest No Future Howe Er Pleasant'

While both Keats and Longfellow often reflect on their own unfulfilled dreams and impending deaths, the poems however contrast on their own dispositions towards death and the future. Here, Keats expresses a fear of not having enough time to accomplish all that he believes he is capable of doing, but as he recognizes the enormity of the world and his own limitations of life, he realizes that his own mortal goals are meaningless in the long run of things. On the other hand, Longfellow speaks of a regret towards his inaction for allowing time to slip away from him in his past and is at a crossroads for the ominous future that looms ahead of him. Through the use of light and dark imagery, and personification, Keats and Longfellow similarly yet also differently, reflect on their own ideas for death and the futures that lay ahead of them.

In this society we are influenced by many things as we get older those things change. We can be influenced by people, books, movies and go on living to always have that characteristics and influence with us. We are all influenced by the people around us or are visual viewing. We depend on the future and see the benefits of a task after we are done. In the Canadian Railway Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot stated “for they looked in the future and what did they see they saw an iron road running from the sea to the sea” they saw the future and the good in what was to come out of their work. They saw the benefits of working hard. Gordon Lightfoot spoke “there was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains

The meaning of the excerpt from Sir William Ernest Henley’s poem has a lot in common with Moore’s writing, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (Moore 180). It has a lot in common because they are both about sadness. Wes is saying that it is frightening that he could have ended up like prisoner Wes and that it is saddening that prisoner Wes did not end up like him, while Henley is saying that there it is fear since we do not know our future. These two pieces also talk about the future. Wes is saying that he has a bright future in front of him while the other Wes is going to have a sad life in jail. Henley is saying that by the time your life on Earth ends, you should not be in fear. He is also saying that what punishments you get do not matter as long as you are in control and in

I partially agree with Pangloss’s statement because we never know what the future holds for us and we can never predict our fate therefor what happens to you today (now) or what you have is the best you can get or have in your live. For example, considering

Fate is made up of two halves that are either creative or destructive. According to stanza 7, the more advanced the ship becomes, the more the ¨shadowy silent distance grew in the iceberg.¨ Although the Immanent Will exists, it is difficult for “the moral eye” to anticipate where the force will lead humanity. The Immanent Will has to wait for the right moment to have the iceberg and the Titanic collide. Fate decides the events of mankind and no amount of hubris or vanity can change the unavoidable

The past, the present and the future all have one similarity: time. The past can either be one’s burden or blessing. The present takes into account how one’s past affects the choices they make that will inevitably affect the future. The future is the product of the past and the present along with the sense and image of the future. These three timely qualities are present in the quote, “We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self”, by Cyril Connolly. The “life-sentence” is caused by the past, the “serving” is the present, and the “self” is the future of who someone is. Along with the quote, the past, present, and future are thoroughly established The Crucible by Arthur Miller as well through a sin, a choice, and a name. I agree

This quote helps resemble how destiny is shown throughout the book; we cannot plan everything correctly because some things are decided by destiny itself. “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone.

“Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.” This thought was made by Alfred A. Montapret. He is trying to interpret that you are the one that controls your life so, build it how you want it to be. Though person can be miserable, but in the end their life will be just how they planned. Life does not always stay the way you plan, stuff gets in the way and it will become confusing, but it will work itself out. With this in mind, society wants the best for people, so their life will be just how they planned it to be. Society will force the Native Americans to do things they want to, but it just wants them to be able to communicate with different

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.” This quote established the knowledge of one’ route of life, how one simple moment can change the lives of many for the good or for the bad.

Additionally, when a person has faith, their future tends to be predetermined. In this case, the individuals prove otherwise by contributing to the final outcome in their lives. In the story, ‘The Sea Change’, the narrator gives her parents as examples of individuals who did not have faith in the sea. Even when it was calm, both parents regarded the sea as a dangerous place that took the lives of multiple people. The narrator says, “My mother said the sea was always a widow-maker” (Gaiman 1).

Such statement gives mixed messages suggesting happiness yet weariness about the future. Susan Snyder has cited the same irony in Othello’s statement

The author uses the idea of tomorrow to symbolize life, itself. “I knew I couldn’t go back and start a new beginning. I couldn’t rewrite the middle. All I could do was change tomorrow, as long as I had one” (Armentrout 156). This quote shows the depth that the main character is reacting too.

In this essay I will try to explain why visions of the future are so

As Emerson perceived the world, “Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoes to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time” (“Self-Reliance” 833-834). Even if a man finds himself with both self-trust and originality, he may never realize his true potential if he is preoccupied with past events or future fortunes. Emerson finds these obsessions to be utterly useless: “Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is the infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired” (838). In contemporary society, a willingness to “live in the moment” is highly regarded, especially among youth, yet this acceptance seems to wane with age. Nevertheless, excessive anxiousness and nostalgia are a waste of the potential that can be realized when the truths of the present are

The text is a poem by William Butler Yeats. This poem was written after the First World War. The poem contains prophecy about the apocalypse that will come in the near future. During that time, people speculated that the apocalypse would be the Second World War, however as the second world war has passed the reader know that the author was referring to something else and it might be the author objective to let people speculate. This poem is full of stunning, terrifying and violent imagery thus may be aimed for people who love war or violence. Moreover, this poem may also be aimed for European people around the period of world war since we all know that Europe suffers tremendously because from the First World War.