“Vacillation” is a poem by William Butler Yeats that explores the source of joy and how it can only be achieved if one understands what grief is. The poem begins with the speaker using extremities to question what exactly joy is. In the second stanza of the poem Yeats introduces a mystic tree that is half burning in flames and is half abounding with foliage. In the third and fourth stanzas the persona advises the readers to gather all possible materialistic wealth‚ destroy it‚ lament over it‚ and
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A Commentary Reading : How Hardwired is Human Behavior? The article‚ written by Nigel Nicholson‚ is a very interesting read. The author talked about evolutionary psychology and how it affects the thinking and feeling as well the social living of human beings. It says that evolutionary psychology "offers a theory of how the human mind came to be constructed and that mind is hardwired in ways that govern most human behavior to this day". Human behavior is the way it is today according to evolutionary
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Poetry Commentary In the poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends”‚ which poetic techniques does the poet Shel Silverstein use to make the work so moving? The poem “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein signifies the passage of life. The poet uses a sidewalk as an extended metaphor to describe the dark and dreary ways of life. The end of the sidewalk is supposed to represent heaven or the end of the passage. His purpose is to teach the reader about the steady pace in which one walks towards his or
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[公司法]B.I.S. CONSULTANTS LTD. v DAO HENG BANK LTD.[诉讼].[香港] [案件事实]Facts: The plaintiff brought these proceedings in order to obtain an account from the defendant for the proceeds of sale of a property‚ formerly owned by the plaintiff‚ sold in a mortgagee sale by the defendant‚ pursuant to orders in separate proceedings between the same parties. The plaintiff sought an order for interim payment‚ under R.S.C Order 29‚ rules 10 and 12‚ of part of the proceeds of sale which was surplus to the amount claimed by the mortgagee
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“The Need of Being Versed in Country Things” Commentary “The Need of Being Versed in Country Things”‚ by Robert Frost‚ illustrates the scene of a useless barn on abandoned land that nature has unexpectedly welcomed. Through effective use of concealed conceit in combination with personification of the farm elements and the inconsistent rhyme scheme‚ Frost exposes the nostalgic human yearning to control and impose meaning in life and conveys that nature holds more power over the will of mankind
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WD Commentary Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson‚ in the first two stanzas‚ eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”‚ “it was not night”‚ “it was not frost”‚ “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch‚ as
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Commentary on my Speech: The importance being healthy and knowing what health is. I wrote a speech directed at college students persuading them to think about the importance of being healthy. I was inspired by the use of rhetorical questions used in Tim Ryan’s ‘Draft’. For example in the first paragraph I say ‘so is that all? Is that the definition of health? This causes the listener to think about what I’m saying which links to my target audience as young people can often lose interest during
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October 3rd‚ 2014 Commentary: The Send Off This poem‚ written by Wilfred Owens‚ describes a group of men going off to war‚ hence the title‚ “The Send Off.” Throughout the poem there is a gloomy and rundown attitude‚ coupled with matching descriptions‚ which is a drastic change to the earlier patriotic jingoistic poems about the war. In this poem‚ a more realistic‚ dismal attitude towards going off to war is taken. With elevated language and the haphazard rhyme scheme within the short stanzas‚ the
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The Great Gatsby as a Social Commentary After the First World War‚ American society enjoyed prosperity as the economy soared. At the same time‚ Prohibition created millionaires out of bootleggers. Consequently‚ materialism and superficiality immediately filled America. F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a witness of people’s spiritually empty lives‚ wrote “The Great Gatsby” which gave him literary importance even today to reflect this ill society. As one of the greatest Modernism work‚ “The Great Gatsby” successfully
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“Ghost of a city lives in another” commentary “The Ghost of a city lives in another” is a very interesting piece; it questions the modern meaning of globalization. Globalization is often seen as a positive term‚ a consequence of human improvement. According to Joseph Stiglitz‚ an economist and Nobel Prize winner defines globalization in this way: “Globalization is the closer integration of the countries and people of the world brought by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication
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