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    Swedenborg called ‘Heaven and Hell’‚ which reinforced the beliefs of the divide of good and evil‚ heaven and hell. This poem shows that Blake is keen on switching the values heaven and hell represent‚ so that his own beliefs about religion can be seen. Blake‚ as with all poets‚ have a knack to create. Blake created an entire Mythology of gods and beings in a series of other poems‚ with characteristics he believed are true if they were to exist. Rintrah is the prophet‚ and can be seen as the equivalent

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    21‚ the poet start out by stating that he is the poet of both the body and of the soul.He protest the religious veiw of heaven and hell‚ saying that he has made heaven part of his life in the present‚ and that the idea of hell needs to be reinterpreted. As the reader we get the point that he’s not very enthusiastic on conventional Christian veiws of santions and hell. Whitman make it clear that he loves women and mothers. He’s by people being prudent and insecure. He sing the song of "pride" and

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    difficult to understand and hard to figure out‚ but as you read on‚ you come to find out that this book is about heaven and hell and the people that go there. The narrator who is the main character in the book tells the story on what he sees from his eyes. The author describes hell as a dark cold town with alleys that people live in and no one to be seen on the streets‚ and heaven as this place that looks beautiful with green grass‚ mountains‚ rivers‚ and animals running around. C.S. Lewis uses different

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    C.S. Lewis’ descriptions of heaven and hell in the book The Great Divorce are mainly metaphorical‚ as he wants to illustrate the fundamental differences between the two places that we have all grown up knowing about. To do this he uses the typical illustrations such as light and dark‚ sunrise and sunset‚ and mountains and valleys‚ or deep ravines. However‚ I think many things that are spoken about in the book are very similar to the actual places. Several differences are the people‚ the weather and

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    ‘Comparing Athens and Sparta is like comparing Heaven and Hell’ The two rivals of ancient Greece that made the most noise and gave us the most traditions were Athens and Sparta. They were close together on a map‚ yet far apart in what they valued and how they lived their lives. Athens and Sparta were different in many different ways and were very much like Heaven and Hell. One of the main ways they were similar was in their form of government. Both Athens

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    religious traditions‚ hell is a place of eternal torment in an afterlife‚ often after resurrection. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as a place of punishment.[1] Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earth’s surface and often include entrances to Hell from the land of the living

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    Heaven as I see it is not above the Earth. It is an ever expanding planet at the end of space. Even though it is a great distance from Earth‚ one just has to look skyward as if looking into a massive telescope and will see the far reaches of space. Gigantic planets and clouds of different colored gases and lights are as easily seen as the faces of your loved ones back on Earth. Every morning starts with a sunrise that is more intense and awe-inspiring as the one the day before. During the day there

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    Aparna of “Hell-Heaven” and the grandmother of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” are two completely different characters. Aparna is young and committed to her role as a mother and wife while the grandmother is older and strives only to fulfill her immediate desires Though they are characters very much unlike each other‚ they both fulfill their prospective author’s goal to inspire emotion in a reader. Both Aparna of “Hell-Heaven” and the grandmother of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” evoke strong emotions

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    Heaven I was aboard on an airship‚ staring out in the window when I got a glimpse of you. At that mere second‚ I never knew that the word “perfect” really exists. You were there‚ sitting‚ fingers lazily stroking the spine of the book. But what captivated me the most were those hazel orbs staring intently at the leaf as if it was the most dazzling thing ever. How I wish I was that book. I was aboard on an airship‚ eyes skimming over the words neatly imprinted in the book. One would get the idea that

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    To Hell and Back On the surface‚ Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” relates the story of a man tortured by the Spanish Inquisition. The man‚ remains nameless throughout the story‚ is condemned to death for an unknown crime and loses consciousness. He awakens in complete darkness and is frightened that he has been locked in a tomb but shortly realizes that he is probably in a dungeon. After exploring the enclosement‚ the prisoner collapses and falls asleep. He wakes up to an offering of

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