Eternity

After what has felt like an eternity, the embarrassment that was the 2016 Presidential Election has finally come to a discouraging conclusion, with Republican candidate Donald Trump shocking the world and defeating his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. This has left a bittersweet taste in the mouth of many Americans, and after constantly being told to choose between the lesser of two evils, I believe this whole process has given us an important message: the duopoly of American politics isn’t

That hour drive felt like an eternity. I was anxiously and impatiently squirming around in my seat waiting for my dad to arrive at the lot to take my road test; I couldn 't wait. Thankfully, the skies were clear and the roads were dry; I couldn 't have asked for a better day to take my test, but still, I couldn 't even feel my body. I felt like every minute that passed by was a whole hour within itself; I just wanted to be there already. My dad was trying to give me motivational pep talks to help

carriage and rides along with a gentleman who is the personification of death. On the carriage ride, they pass many of life's gifts and ride off into eternity. Dickinson's vision of death in this poem implies that the worries and joys of life will be gone in the afterlife, death will come unexpectedly, and that death will leave an individual riding eternity reflecting on a single day. Initially, Dickinson's poem infers that when we pass, our troubles and joys will be gone. The poem begins with

can be seen when comparing Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” and the painting Water Ghost by Alfred Kubin. Both pieces contain several similarities and differences pertaining to the journey from life and death and concept of eternity. In “Because I could not stop for Death,” death is characterized as a gentleman suitor who arrives to pick up the speaker and take her on a ride in his horse drawn carriage. She is at

contrasts the concept of poetic genius with divisions, such as time and space, created from the human beings separating from it, effectively, keeping them from eternity. Therefore, Blake’s writings value the human being’s ability to access the poetic genius to the highest importance believing it will allow humans to move towards eternity. Blake first outlines his concept of the poetic genius in his writing, All Religions Are One demonstrating his belief “That the Poetic Genius is the true man” [Principal

Eternity Throughout the novel, Stephen heavily relies on sensory experiences to perceive the world around him. In the beginning of the novel, almost all his memories are accentuated with the use of numerous sensory details that are often paired together. For example, the novel opens with Stephen’s description of his father’s hairy face and his mother’s nice smell, hot feelings are paired with cold, and so forth, which enhance Stephen’s perspective and how he views and understands the world. As

a man who lived in a society where the word “I” was not longer present. This hero tried to free himself from the claps of collectivism. This hero was named Eternity 7-2521. He did all he could to create his own ideas, and thoughts it was hard Eternity 7-2521 was able to escape from the hands of his brother’s. In the story of Anthem, Eternity 7-2521 worked hard to find a way out of collectivism. He snuck out at night for three hours (Rand 35). During this short period of time he went to an underground

Terror, Heaven and Eternity Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary poem, Howl, is a powerful portrayal of life degraded. It represents the harsh life of the beat generation and chronicles the struggles of the repressed. Howl is a poem of destruction. Destruction of mind, body, and soul through the oppression of the individual. Using powerful diction, Allen Ginsberg describes this abolition of life and its implications through our human understanding of abstractions like Time, Eternity, and self. The

in most of Dickinson 's poems is the wonders of nature, and the identity of self, as well as death and life. The five poems with the common theme of death are: “My Life had Stood- A Loaded Gun”, “I Heard A Fly Buzz- When I Died”, “Behind Me Dips- Eternity”, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, and “I “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain.” In the first poem “My Life had Stood- A Loaded Gun”, Emily Dickinson really plays into human emotion by describing anger as a “Vesuvian face” which is essentially an

death became very real to her, and it made a large impression on her life. Conrad Aikin, one of the many critics of Dickinson's work, believes that: "Death and the problem of life after death obsessed her" (15). She had a very peculiar idea about eternity that was unlike any of the traditional