Sunsets

anonymously. * Line 1 – ‘Short days ago’ this brings home the suddenness of death in war. * Line 2– ‘We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow…’ this helps the reader to identify with the dead. It contrasts with the previous capitalisation of ‘Dead’ because it is reminds the reader of how these soldiers were all real people, who had feelings and watched sunsets. · Sunsets are beautiful things very unlike the war. They appear to be an eternal cycle, which is very different to these peoples’ lives

But, the day is transformed into all of time through other figurative language in the poem. Beginning in stanza one, Warren depicts the “sunset build[ing]” as “The last tumultuous avalanche of light” breaks through the pines (Warren 2, 4-5). Like evening, sunset implies the end of a day as the light leaves the earth and darkness encloses. However, as the “sunset builds”, light that breaks through the trees is the “last” bit of light before the hawk comes. The word “last” suggests there is no more

Mallory Finn Capstone Research Project April 14, 2015 Humanities TR 11:00 Strength and Beauty Art represents many characteristics. It can represent happiness, anger, or strength and beauty. My three artworks that I have chosen represent strength as well as beauty. The first painting, the horse represents the strength of such a beautiful well-crafted animal. The definition of the muscle on the horse, and the way Leonardo shows the shadowing characteristics of this animal is exquisite

Poetry Analysis Peter Pereira is a physician at an urban clinic in Seattle and the founder of the Floating Bridge Press. Pereira base the theme of most of his poems on domestic life, suffering and the human condition of what he witnesses in his field of work. One example of his go-to theme of the human condition is Reconsidering the Seven; it is a brief poem that depicts on how un-deadly the seven biblical sins really are, through the use of tone and literary devices. From stanza to stanza, the

The Quest By, Donatella (DJ) DiMambro Once upon a time, there was a Princess named Viola, she is18 years old and the Princess looked like a fallen star. She lives in a sparkly castle in the enchanted forest. She loves animals and they are her friends. She loves to see all the animals. The forest is enchanted, and not many know about this forest. It has many magical creatures that live there. There is a secret path that leads to a clearing, where there is an apple tree in the middle, and where

the worshipper and God. Muslims believe that prayer by voice is what distinguishes Islam from Judaism and Christianity. The prayers contain verses from the Quran, the muslim holy book, and are recited five times a day at dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and nightfall. These prayers are led by a well-informed person called an Imam which is identified as the “one who walks before”. The Imam knows the Quran and is chosen by the worshippers based on his dedication and knowledge. Although it is meritorious

Before diving into sacred doctrina, Aquinas explains sacred doctrina as the science of God and how His creation related back to him. In order to study sacred doctrina, one can either look at the causes first and make sense of what follows or he can look to the effects in order to draw conclusions about the cause. The latter is the method of St. Thomas Aquinas in explaining sacred doctrine in his Summa Theologiae. Aquinas looks to creation in order to make conclusions about the Creator. In order to

Moth is young, barely two weeks old, so she is of course curious about everything. Look at all the colors here, she constantly thought as she whisked herself around the garden. The world she lived in was of course radiant, full of wonderful things and a huge spectrum of color. Take for instance, flowers, the epitome of beauty. Pretty to look at, they come in various shades, and are very sweet- with the nectar on the inside. Best choice of food ever, she had thought the moment she had first drank

1651” is a thirty-four line poem with an AABB rhyme scheme. Comparing a royal’s reign to a sunset, the poem depicts the destructive, blazing fall of a monarchy. The first ten lines of the poem describe a setting sun and establish the framework in which we are expected to view the monarchy’s fall. Detailing the “glorious” (1) sun’s “double brightness” (4) while he dips below the horizon, Philips portrays the sunset as something both beautiful and terrifying. As the sun “[p]uts on his highest looks in

These shifts from sunlight to sunset and again to sunlight are shown as time change in Renaissance theatre. If Romeo and Juliet were played at Greek theatre style then we wouldn’t have time changes and it would play continuously; the time change during performance would be announced