World Literature Paper

According to the Bible, there is life after death. When people die, the body becomes separated from the spirit and the soul. It is the body that remains on earth while the spirit goes back to God (John 11:25). Here, depending on your deeds on earth, the spirit may be accepted into Gods kingdom (heaven) or it may be subjected to punishment through hellfire (Matthew 10:28). (625 words)

The poems in this section are about the hardships of life and the problems that people have to face, yet there is an undertone of hope in them too, the problems may not be solved, but the poems show that there is a sense of faith in human resilience.

The word “homecoming” is universally associated with a celebration of the returned and is linked to feelings of happiness and anticipation. Dawe however, employs this word ironically as the “homecoming” described in the poem correlates to the death and mourning of the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War and depicts the arrival of their nameless bodies. Through establishing this irony Dawe is about to effectively capture the brutal reality of war and highlight the emotional trauma associated with its dehumanising

In the poem, “Which Plant Is Not Faded” it is a depressing poem that talks about the hardships that the people went through throughout that time period. It explains in (line 1-4) that everyone is to fight. It doesn’t matter what they are doing or even if they have a family but they are taken out of their homes to fight and to create

The author of ‘Homecoming’, Bruce Dawe, illustrates and describes the catastrophes of the Vietnam War in a calm but negative tone. Dawe uses this poem to represent the soldiers and the experiences they went through during WW1. The poetic techniques that he used in this poem “homecoming” were Imagery, Onomatopoeia and Repetition throughout the whole poem. Bruce Dawe helps the readers to understand the theme of how war is bad and a tragic waste of human life. This poem takes the readers to a place in time where our ancestral blood lines fought and lost their lives during WW1, in the hopes that future generations would have a better future in life.

The further the poem is read, the more consuming the impacts of separation becomes to the narrator until they now desire to recede from their past. The title of the poem confirms this desire through insinuating that the path of separation that they are on is perpetual and therefore, shows no clear destination. This ending consequently leaves a feeling of hopelessness for the reader that is meant to mimic the hopelessness that the narrator feels over their situation. However, in the conclusion of my personal response, I recognize the impacts of separation and the need to correct them. Whilst not wanting to vanish from society, I admit to the difficulty of returning to society due to now being accustomed to the feeling of separation and the nothingness that it creates within me.

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

My AP World History teacher used to show my class John Green’s Crash Course World History videos on Youtube; ten minute lessons, taught by John Green, aimed to cover a lot of material in a short time. One day, my teacher mentioned that John Green and his brother made Crash Course videos for other subjects, too, psychology being one of them. Psychology had always intrigued me, so I spent that night watching the introductory psychology videos. It was fun, and I wanted to learn more.

The importance and value of extended family and family heritage/ memories in Saed’s work is represented by descriptive language, personification and motifs. Saed tells the story of the healing nature of sharing traumatic memories after hers and her extended family’s traumatic experiences. In the lines, “Grandmothers tell the story of healing; how wounds heal only after they have memorized the moment of hurt...” and “Mother’s veil hangs on the wall like a talisman. Her lapis doves and tinselled mountains are misplaced and glorified behind plates of glass…”(What the Scar Revealed) the personification of wounds enables the reader to compare the situation to their own lives, bring it ‘alive’ and giving it a deeper meaning. ‘Wounds’ is a recurring motif throughout the poem to reinforce and emphasise the principal message of the healing nature of sharing traumatic memories. These extracts show the value Saed holds

Imagine a crowd of people with on the edge of your seat, nail-biting excitement. People were bubbling with energy and some alcohol to loosen everyone up. The lights are dim and the show is about to start. The slow melodic notes of the piano echo through the theater and out walks the singer dressed in an all lace number and a shawl showing more skin than covering. It is evident that this event is definitely for the “grown and sexy”. On Sunday March 8, 2014, I attended a Masha Ambrosius concert in which she was promoting her album friends and lovers. During the course of the show there were 4 different performances all of which had different effects on the

On a similar note, but from another perspective is Malcolm Gladwell. He emphasizes the generalizations people get from their communities about the unknown, may bring them into a dangerous situation. One example he used is the bans on pit bulls. Due to the known fact that pit bulls are dangerous, consequently they were ban in several locations by the legislation. “How do people know when they’ve made the right generation?” (Gladwell 2) Gladwell pushes the fact that generalizations are a choice of categorizing an individual to a certain factor. He dubbed this as a “profiling ‘category problem.’(Gladwell 3)” This would include pit bulls for the reason that they are not a single breed. Yet, the Ontario legislation bans dogs with physical characteristics

Book I as he demonstrates a way of detecting a man’s true conviction to his moral and

A Thousand Splendid Suns, a historical fiction novel by Khaled Hosseini, and “Journey Into the Interior”, a poem by Theodore Roethke, have thematic similarities in that both works share the message that one must go through hardship in order to discover oneself. However, Hosseini develops the theme through his characterization of his book’s protagonist, Miriam, while Roethke employs metaphors and vivid imagery to establish the common theme.

furthermore creates “home” in Texas by constituting the attributes of the old home, which in this case, are raw, sweet figs. Bardenstein summarizes this phenomenon well: “The poem presents one solution to the exile fixated on fragmented metonyms of the lost homeland: if you can manage to get hold of a fragment, then even Dallas, Texas, can ‘become’ a home / a Palestine.”140 It is fitting that the poem ends on a joyous note, as the crises of both identity and exile are ostensibly resolved.

In the words of Anne Bradstreet, “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” As writers of the modern era expressed their hardships through poetry, one can only hope that they kept such advice in mind. Through captivating works, poets such as Langston Hughes, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, and E.E. Cummings expressed the struggles of life during the modern era. By examining what these poets have to say about dissatisfaction with life, feelings of inadequacy, and loneliness, it becomes clear that life during the modern era was full of hardships.