Life Wasted

What We Lose Through Death of Others An Explication of John Updike’s “Perfection Wasted” This poem dramatizes the conflict between losing someone’s personality through death and the magic within our own separate worlds. In the poem personality is the most important part of life because it cannot be replicated by any person in the world because every person's personality is different and unique in its own way. The personality that is shown in the poem is that the speaker is happy and full of magic

when the time comes to die, then that person will have wasted the time they had in life to focus on something that is imminent. In the first stanza, Thomas

Housman’s view of death contrasts from that of Thomas because Housman accepts that dying young can be something positive. In A.E. Housman’s poem, To an Athlete Dying Young, he writes, “Smart lad, to slip betimes away … ” Here, Housman is saying that the athlete who died was smart to do so. Glory is something that fades quickly, especially in running. People can achieve great things in athletics, and they will become a household name, until the next great athlete comes along and does something even

presence of the red death was acknowledged” . no matter who or where you are death comes for you. You cannot hide, it cmes for everyone. “He came like a theif in the night”. Death comes at the least expected times. As you go through your life the clock never stops ticking. You are always running out of time. “The time that flies” where does it

Written assignment 5 Life as a teenager isn’t always as easy as it seems. Actually it is the most difficult part in life for many people which we get to see in Anna Hope’s short story “A gap of sky”. Some choose to focus on education whereas other choose alcohol and partying. Whatever path people would choose they all will be lead to the right path in the end no matter what has happened in the past. It just takes time. The short story shows us that even when you have had a rough time in the past

Virginia Woolf was an English writer who suffered from recurrent bouts of depression until she eventually took her own life on March 28, 1941. In one of her last essays, entitled “The Death of the Moth”, Woolf describes the life and eventual death of a small day moth as she watches it flutter around her window. Her attitude towards the moth changes as she transitions from looking down on the creature because of its limited potential to realizing the true value of having such a simple but pure existence;

Everyone will soon have to face death; however, that does not mean you have to live your life in fear. You should always live your life to the fullest, regardless of your situation. In the popular known epic called, The Epic of Gilgamesh, it elucidates his significant fear of death because of the passing of his best fellow friend, Enkidu. He goes on a lengthy journey to find immortality. For example, when Gilgamesh gets his first drive to wander off, he states, “Because I am afraid of death, I will

he can relive the past, but his friend Nick disagrees, therefore "'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously 'Why of course you can!'" (110). Gatsby wants Daisy to be a part of his life again, but she has moved on. Gatsby does all he can to make life with Daisy go back to the way it was, but Gatsby lost his chance to change. He cannot live in the past; he cannot change what has already been done, yet he still thinks he can “‘I’m going to fix everything just the way

Herrick was born on August 1591. In his life spam he had seen the English Civil War. It was fought between the Royalists who supported Charles I and the Roundheads that supported the Parliament. Herrick was a Christian priest for the reason that he tells women to get married. “Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry” (Herrick). Ketteler explains,“It’s no coincidence that Herrick served as a parish priest”(Ketteler 334). He tells young women to go marry which signifies that he

Take your fear and transform it into trust; learn to rise above anxiety and doubt. Turn your ‘worry hours’ into ‘productive hours’. Take the energy that you have wasted and direct it toward every worthwhile effort that you can be involved in. You will see beautiful things happens when you allow yourself to experience the joys of life. You will find happiness when you adopt positive thinking into your daily routine and make it an important part of your world just like what did Adeline did for herself