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with Songs of Experience (1794). It is from those collections that he draws out his innermost thoughts on life often looking at “a being of God” or “the very human existence.” In his poem “The Tyger” he used numerous literary devices that center on divine creation ultimately putting beauty and destruction hand in hand, it does this through the lens of a Romantic Era poet. To first understand the poem by Blake it must first be dissected. The first stanza had a set of word choice that gave a question

providentialism. When the new religion of Puritanism arose, a majority of these Puritans believed in values such as the grace of God and His divine mission. The Puritan concept of God’s grace signifies their constant need for God. God was seen as kind, and He helped to cleanse the Puritans of envy, hatred, lust, or vanity. The Puritans also believed in God’s divine mission, which was a plan for each of the Puritans’ life. The Puritans felt that they had to follow His plan; their lives went on how they

people through life, and what is waiting for them after. The Divine Comedy was written by a man of politics, relating his content to the events of his everyday life. Moving deeper into the substance of the writing, there are three major sections represented, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Furthermore, we will take a look at the nine circles of hell depicted in the Divine Comedy. Dante Alghieri’s life leading up to the writing the Divine Comedy. Dante was known for engaging in political agenda through

Virgil is considered the most renowned Latin poet, according to the work “Divine Intervention, Supremacy of Fate in The Aeneid.” He is the writer of the epic poem The Aeneid. Virgil’s epic is a continuation of Homer’s The Iliad. The Aeneid is very much like The Iliad. In The Iliad, the men and gods are a driving power of the Trojan War, as are the men and gods a driving power of Aeneas’s journey in The Aeneid, but there is a stronger power driving Aeneas on his journey. It is the same power to which

The Odyssey details Odysseus’ arduous return to his homeland. Ten years have passed since the end of the Trojan war and Odysseus, the “most cursed man alive”, has been missing and presumed dead by many. (10.79). Throughout the novel, gods play a significant role in the fate of Odysseus and other characters. The extent of the gods’ role though is not unqualified, contrary to Telemachus’ suggestion that, “Zeus is to blame./He deals to each and every/ laborer on this earth whatever doom he pleases”

The Odyssey details Odysseus’ arduous return to his homeland. Ten years have passed since the end of the Trojan war and Odysseus, the “most cursed man alive”, has been missing and presumed dead by many. (10.79). Throughout the novel, gods play a significant role in the fate of Odysseus and other characters. The extent of the gods’ role though is not unqualified, contrary to Telemachus’ suggestion that, “Zeus is to blame./He deals to each and every/ laborer on this earth whatever doom he pleases”

The Divine Comedy acknowledged as Dante’s Inferno was written in the 14th century and is an epic poem with allegorical value. Dante the Pilgrim is 35 years old and he was “midway along the journey of our life”(TEXTBOOK). Dante the pilgrim is lost in the dark wood, where he meets his guide named Virgil and he escorts Dante through the nine circles of hell. Virgil symbolizes human reason and wisdom. In the beginning, Dante was sympathetic for all of the people he saw suffering in hell, but as time

The Elizabethan chain of being is based on the idea of hierarchy and divine order. A part of this divine order is the king who is said to be God's representative on earth; they bear the responsibility of carrying out God's wishes on earth. However, in the case of Macbeth, instead of god, it would be the witches. The witches are the patriarch to all of the character’s in the play and the catalyst to all of the crimes Macbeth commits. The witches portray this through their supernatural abilities, their

“The Sound of the Sea” is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, describing the sounds of the sea and relating it to human inspiration. Through only auditory images of the sea and other powerful natural forces, Longfellow effectively alludes to the nature of human inspiration. Through detailed and sensory imagery, Longfellow communicates the subtle details of the human soul and how inspiration functions. “The Sound of the Sea” consists of fourteen lines and a particular rhyme scheme (abba abba

inspiration comes from within you because God is within you, and he uses natural imagery to communicate God within nature. In conclusion, “The Sound of the Sea” effectively creates a parallel between the metaphor of the sound of the sea with the divine nature of inspiration. Longfellow does so effectively through finely detailed imagery that gives rather precise insight into the human