horizontal one.” In this quote Auden appropriately suggest that great people are seldom appreciated while they are alive. I agree with quote and many other who say we don’t realize what we have until its gone. Many people in today’s society are very critical. They pick out the negatives in people’s actions instead of praising the good. They take actions for granite and expect the best. Many people hold grudges and don’t appreciate. What happens when what they’ve taken for granite all along isn’t
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The Summary of P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind Published in 1820‚ P.B. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind‚ is a poem which allegorizes the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. Shelley realizes that he cannot in actual life‚ rise to the height of imaginative perfection‚ which was his dream. But it is his bold optimism that he invokes the West Wind to blow the clarion call to the ‘unawaken’d earth’ and to sow the seeds of hope of regeneration. The poem begins with three stanzas
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Chiamaka Udokoro Mr. Coates Music Appreciation Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Concert The performance of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Ebenezer Baptist Church was amazing. The performance taught me that there is a difference between listening to an orchestra play on TV versus watching them life. the life experiencing will always stick to your memory because you were actually there to experience the feeling. I really enjoyed it. The show made me enjoy and appreciate classical music. It was
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Ode To a Nightingale In Keats’ 19th century poem‚ Ode To a Nightingale‚ he comments upon the short-lived nature of human life and the concept of mortality through using a contrasting image of a nightingale. In the poem‚ the narrator speaks of this bird yearningly‚ envious of its ability to remain immortal through it’s song‚ and of its detachment from the human world. It is clear that the narrator is experiencing feelings of melancholy‚ and he discusses a personal escape from an existence tainted
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AP Literature 19 August 2013 Ode on Melancholy John Keats’s poem‚ “Ode on Melancholy”‚ serves as an instructional manual on how to cope with sadness and the feeling of melancholy. Through his vivid use of lyrical language and allusions‚ Keats’s is able to depict vivid images that haunt the soul and is able to convey his message that the only way to deal with a sense of melancholy is to accept it. Keats believes that once one can accept sadness and make it a part of his identity‚ then he can overcome
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dreams. In April 1819 Keats composed a poem called Ode on a Grecian Urn during the romantic period of time. Ode on a Grecian Urn became one of the top six poems of the time period. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be described in so many elements and told in so many ways. Ode on a Grecian Urn can be best broken down by describing
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Word count 200 - 250. Objective: Chose one work of art in Chapter 8 that you got most excited about. How does it fit into the theme of Mortality and Immortality? Explain what you learned about that object or architecture. (it cannot be an example you used in DQ) Subjective: What object would you like to be buried with and why? The work of art I chose is on Page 236. Figure 8.20‚ Taj Mahal‚ Agra‚ India‚ 1632-1654. The great Memorial was built by Shah Jahan‚ the ruler of the Mughal Empire in
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Prose appreciation The East‚ an excerpt from the short story “Youth” written by Joseph Conrad is a descriptive paragraph about a young mans first impression of the east. The tone of the excerpt is admiring because the writer uses words such as “impalpable” and “enslaving” suggesting that the young deckhand was overwhelmed by the magnificent sight of the east. The aim in descriptive paragraphs is to build descriptive detail. The writer mostly uses long sentences which are suitable for a descriptive
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James Nguyen Professor Tarango English 100 30 June 2014 The Past is the Present In August 1955‚ Emmett Till‚ a fourteen-year-old African-American boy left Chicago to visit his relatives in Mississippi. A couple days after he arrived‚ he and his cousin Curtis Jones went to the Bryant ’s grocery store to buy some candy. A white man named Roy Bryant who was out of town owned the store and his wife‚ Carolyn‚ was managing the shop in his absence. The exact details of the incident have long been disputed
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ODE TO THE WEST WIND Summary The autumnal west wind sweeps along the leaves and "winged seeds." The seeds will remain dormant until spring. The wind is thus a destroyer and a preserver. The west wind also sweeps along storm clouds. It is the death song of the year. With the night that closes the year will come rain‚ lightning‚ and hail; there will be storms in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The poet pleads with the west wind to endow him with some of its power‚ for he feels depressed and helpless
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