Joseph Butler

Spirituality and The Second Coming       In his eloquent poem "The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats uses word choice and phrase combinations to convey to the reader an understanding of his sentiment of impossibility concerning the fate of spirituality for the human race. His inner conscious is spread out in the poem for the reader to either accompany him in his darkness or to turn their back and continue to believe in their own form of hopefulness in spirituality.   Yeats cleverly

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, William Butler Yeats’ “The Song of Wandering Aengus” and George Orwell’s 1984, each literature piece exemplifies all of the connections in Joseph Campbell’s 17 Stages of a Hero’s Journey in order to demonstrate the changes in the character’s development and the motivation behind their transformation. In Joseph Campbell’s 17 Stages of a Hero’s Journey, Campbell indicates the first step of the hero/heroine's journey the “Call to Adventure” in which

William Butler Yeats was an Irish born poet and perhaps one of the most important figures in the history of Ireland for the 20th century. He was a prominent figure in the revival of the Irish literacy and in particular through his poetic theater he was able to bring forth a new vision of Ireland. His play, Cathleen ni Houlihan, is an accurate depiction of the message he wanted to convey. He used drama to convey ongoing social problems during the era of British colonial rule. Through that other prominent

W.B. Yeats, a key figure of the modernist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was born in Dublin in 1865. Although spending much of his childhood and youth in London, Yeats is seen as an inherently Irish literary figure. Through his early work, employing not only ancient Greek myth, but also Celtic legend, he sought to re-ignite in Ireland notions of heritage and tradition, which had diminished through the years. In Ireland, from around 1890 onwards, there was a very noticeable

obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder”. In the opinion of Alexander Berkman, war is the root of needless ruination and evil. One author who scrutinizes the evil caused by war is William Butler Yeats. In his poem, “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, Yeats examines the social and political disarray of Europe following the Great War, now known as World War I. This conflict signified the birth of modern warfare. Yeats believes that The Great

Eventually Become Old (An analysis of “Sailing to Byzantium”) “Great poetry is best complemented with great analysis. Some of the greatest commentators of our time have been able to transfigure readers into reading poetry English-language poetry in both deeper and broader senses” (Gursoy). Sailing to Byzantium is a great poem that is easy to relate to. The ideas that are expressed through W. B. Yeats are clear and well put together together in order to create a direct message to take away. Yeats

and the political ideology of Communism. The paranoia and hysteria inherent to this period led to discrimination of Communists. Joseph McCarthy was a main player in this Red Scare, which was sometimes called the “Witch-Hunts in Washington.” He was a Wisconsin senator who made claims against those whom he suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. Joseph McCarthy was born in a small town in Wisconsin on November 15, 1908. After quitting school at the age of fourteen, he had a short

Bonn, Germnay, on December 17, 1779, was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century, important for the transition of western music from Classicalism to Romanticism. Taught by his father at early age and studied under great composer Joseph Haydn in Vienna, Beethoven gained a reputation of virtuoso pianist at a young age. However, due to declining hearing in his 20s, Beethoven’s career of concert pianist and his personal was challenged. In 1802, he wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament expressing

Hero of the story on a quest that will help save their kingdom or home (Archetypal Criticism). Joseph Campbell, an American writer, mythologist and lecturer, divided the journey into three phases: separation, initiation, and return, this is called the Monomyth theory (The Hero's Journey - Mythic Structure of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth). Solomon Vandy’s story follows the steps of the Monomyth theory by Joseph Campbell. The movie starts with the first phase; separation. Solomon is separated

     Gods and Generals, 2003, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (JEFF DANIELS), Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee (ROBERT DUVALL), Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (STEPHEN LANG), Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker (MAC BUTLER), and Capt. Alexander ‘Sandie’ Pendleton (JEREMY LONDON). The movie Gods and Generals is a portrayal of the actions that were illustrated very eloquently and captivatingly in the book Gods and Generals, written by Jeff Shaara. The movie even though was less than