Life Wasted

spent" were written during times of trouble in their respective poet's life. Thomas was faced with losing his father to death; Milton was dealing with becoming completely blind at the age of forty-three. As each poet struggles to deal with the crisis occurring in his life, he makes a statement about the relationship between mankind and God, the reasons that God gives and then takes away certain gifts, and the proper way to live life. Thomas and Milton ended up with contrasting answers to these

extraterrestrial life and religion. New discoveries by astronomers found ways to argue for anti-plurality by using religious viewpoints. William Whewell was one of the first astronomers to bring about this new argument. Alfred Wallace also brought the theory of evolution into the argument against plurality. Plurality is not possible in the universe because the Earth is in such a perfect spot for life to exist and those same conditions would not come about again for another planet to sustain life. At the

pain. False believes create unnecessary pain and fear; particularly superstitious of god's punishment and unnecessary fear of death. Spirt and body are birth less and deathless, death is the destruction of our identity only and the creation of new life comes from our death. Lucretius was a epicurean poet at the end of the late roman republic era and wrote ‘On The Nature of Things’, the

accept death so easily in their last moments. This message resonates through Thomas’ use of a striking theme and aggressive diction, making for an acerbic tone or attitude. Throughout his villanelle, Thomas urges one to continuously fight and hold onto life for as long as they can and labels the four common types of people who are understanding of the inevitability of death and how they differ in their perspectives. He categorizes these people as the wise, the good, the wild, and the grave, all of whom

“decayed” to a “mere beautiful futility” (Wells 58). The TT compares the Eloi to cattle grazing in a field, by doing so the weak and dumb nature of the Eloi is stressed to the reader. At a point in time, society had attained such a carefree and secure life that no more changes were needed in their lives. Since everything was achieved and there were no more dilemmas, intelligence was no longer needed. Consequently, this class of humans stopped using their brains and so creativity and intelligence slowly

Through different types of readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146, the reader is able to access the depth and difference in meaning among the alternate readings. The general reading of Sonnet 146 allows the reader to experience the inner-emotions are meaning behind the text, of the struggle and battle between the speakers soul and the earthly indulgences he immorally takes advantage of at the expense of his soul’s immortality. However the contextual reading presents are new argument to the sonnet,

Night           In Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the speaker is a son talking to his aging father and pleading with him to fight against death. The son knows that death is the inevitable end to every life, but feels one should not give up to death too easily. By using metaphor, imagery, and repetition, Thomas reinforces the son's message that aging men see their lives with sudden clarity and realize how they might have lived happier, more productive

How To Live Life “Because I could not stop for Death,” by Emily Dickinson establishes the conflict between the way to live life and death. By using figures of speech such as personification and imagery, the speaker reminds us that life is short, so we must live it to the fullest because we never know when death will come to us. The speaker uses personification, the attribution of human traits to nonhuman objects, to describe how death occurs in our lives. For example, the speaker states, “Because

Compare and contrast the ways in which Pinter and Larkin show the pressures of modern life on the individual In both The Caretaker and Larkin’s Collected Poems, Pinter and Larkin frequently paint their characters to live in a relentless state of fear and anguish caused often by the pressures of the external world. In this critical understanding of both writers, I will explore how the variations of pressures from modern life effecting and potentially harming individuals. The Caretaker and Collected Poems

Victor made the decision to pursue his career and chase after knowledge. He was never satisfied and wanted more and more. Written in "Frankenstein: Myths Of Scientific And Medical Knowledge And Stories Of Human Relations,” Steven Marcus states that, “Frankenstein is clearly in pursue of … forbidden knowledge”(The Southern Review III). Basically Marcus is saying that Victor has gotten on the wrong path of discovery. He has embark in a path with unknown consequences but he does not care. He pursues