The Line of Beauty

Can beauty stand the test of time? This is an age old question that can be examined by comparing two works of art in different mediums from the Renaissance period and show how they share a common theme of beauty. The first piece is an exquisite painting by Sandro Botticelli, titled Birth of Venus, which shows a nude Venus entering the mortal world on a shell. The second work is a poem by Publius Ovidius Naso (known as Ovid), called The Art of Beauty, that demonstrates why it is important for Roman

her to wonderful things in life, such a Summer, also to grant her immortality through lines of the poem; meaning as long as the poem will exist and be

just one of many written by Petrarch over a period of forty years and our first example of context, is the sonnet itself. The sonnet contains two sections, fourteen lines in total, and uses two rigid and distinct rhyme schemes. The octave (first eight lines) incorporates the usual ABBA ABBA rhyme scheme, but the sestet (last six lines) diverts from this scheme using CDE FCE, a variation of the more common CDC DCD. This technique had been considered a very elegant and suitable form for

Life, True Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Beyonce’s Portrayal of the American Beauty Standard America is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Instead, it is oppressed with a disease that attacks the self-esteem of its entire people. Women, in particular, are affected. Because society sets ridiculous expectations for beauty, women strive to achieve them but, never will. Beyonce’s song “Pretty Hurts” was co-written by Joshua Coleman, Sia Fuller and Beyonce Knowles

Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson has many reoccurring themes that are presented. Emerson has a very interesting take on the world. Emerson has three aspects of Beauty that he presents in a detailed manner. Nature’s beauty has its calming qualities, its spiritual elements, and nature is an object of an intellect. Emerson’s first aspect of Beauty explains its medicine like features. Emerson states, “To the body and mind which have cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their

The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan is an interesting perspective of how humans over the centuries have filled certain desires through the use of plants. The apple represents the desire for sweetness, the tulip for beauty, marijuana for intoxication, and the potato for control. Pollan discusses the point and importance of these four plants and their development throughout history. Chapter 1: Desire: Sweetness/ Plant: The Apple This chapter goes into depth talking about the spread

First, both sonnets use nature to depict the vicious cycle of life. Both Spenser and Shakespeare use metaphors to demonstrate the fleeting nature of the world. Both emphasize that life will play its course and everything will come to an end. In line 4 of Amoretti 75, it reads, “but came tyde, and made my paynes his pray.” (Spenser 4). The words

Pictures that demonstrate the idea being portrayed in each line of the poem were used. The main poetic device that Anne Michaels favoured in the poem, “Women on a Beach” was personification and metaphors. The poem is a total of 13 lines, and my collage consequently, contains 13 images. My personal favourite line in this poem is, “Far away in a boat, someone wears a red shirt, / a tiny stab in the pale sky” (line 2-3). I truly enjoy this line because of the bloody image it creates using my senses; it

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physically, we're compelled to expect unreal things in an attempt to achieve perfection. Somewhere along the line we've considered the artificial world where perfection can be found and starts ignoring the real world. The speakers in the poems rejects the temporal realm and starts embracing perfection in the artificial world by showing the quest of the ideal through dreams, fairytale and beauty. The poem ‘The Woman I am in my Dreams” by Maxine Tynes is about a woman that carries herself in a way that