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    Paradigms in Subconscious Realities Cormac McCarthy’s novel‚ The Road‚ conveys a father and his son traveling the roads of what is left from the earth-shattering events that led to the world consumed in flames of evil and death devouring the good and humanity until what remained of mankind was forsaken to walk in the ash of morals and rationality that would mask the earth in darkness. As the father and son scavenge in the remnants of cities‚ they are faced with trials of reason‚ sordid cannibalism

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    Poetic Analysis on Because I Could Not Stop for Death It is known that Emily Dickinson had a natural fear and obsession for death and her contemplation of her death is reflected in her poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death. In Dickinson’s works‚ she personified death‚ the central theme of the poem. Instead of describing death as a place of being or a state of mind‚ she describes death as a person or spirit coming to retrieve her soul. This poem reflects her inner thoughts on her own death and

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    When we hear about death we imagine something scary‚ such as The Grim Reaper. In our minds The Grim Reaper is a tall‚ dark figure who’s wasting no time on bringing you along with him. However in the poem I’m going to talk about in this paper views death in a different perspective. In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death‚ the speaker describes death as a gentleman‚ and how he took her on a nonstop journey. Besides death being talked about as a person‚ the speaker also goes through

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    Dylan Thomas was a 20th century poet and was considered one of the best of his time. He was born in 1914 in Swansea‚ Wales to parents David John and Florence Williams Thomas. Thomas’s father was an english teacher at the Swansea Grammar School and was a large influence on his son. Thomas soon began writing poems. His first poem was published at the age of 12‚ but was later discovered as plagiarized. Thomas wrote and published his first collection of original poems in 1936. In the year 1952

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    The Angel of Death and the Sculptor‚ sculpted by Daniel Chester French‚ pays tribute to a fallen American sculptor‚ Martin Milmore‚ and challenges the usual representation of Death as the horrible gruesome presence that it has been represented to be ever since the Christian era. Through a combination of high-and-low relief and in-the-round sculpting‚ French makes you feel almost complacent in the company of death. The benevolent face on the angel of death and the intrigued look on the face of the

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    Scroll down for part 1 III As Mercury lay there frozen the icicle he was cold in‚ he watched the moon and stars planets as well as Venus and Mars how they all flew past the skies‚ so very far viewing such a miraculous sight was not of par Yet there was one planet near Venus he could not name it irritated him‚ like a shirt with a stain ‘twas closest to the sun‚ it orbits it; its duty never done he decided to call it Mercury‚ it knew its path‚ yet its mind was filled with uncertainty

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    share a message that no matter what happens‚ it is important to persevere. They are able to reveal this message by using literary devices such as metaphors and rhyme. However‚ they both differentiate in their own ways because Edgar’s poem uses personification. Michael Sage’s poem has a usage of rhyme and metaphor. An example of rhyme in his poem is‚ “We’ve all had times‚ when the going gets rough; The smooth ride suddenly‚ feels bumpy and rough.” In this case he’s rhyming

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    In nowadays literature world personification is defined as attribution of humanlike qualities to non-human objects. Contemporary and long-recognized authors commonly use this technique in their writings. Moreover‚ until recently‚ personification was directly linked to allegory (Paxson‚ 1994)‚ so the most antique works of literature can be now associated with this writing method. One of those works is Homer’s Odyssey‚ which is filled with several personifications. Dawn is most commonly personified

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    Personification and Diction in “Colors of the Wind” Forests are known as the planet’s most diverse ecosystems as well as the home to over 30 million species of plants and animals. Caused by land clearing for infrastructure building and timber logging‚ deforestation is extremely present but often overlooked. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz’s song “Colors of the Wind” challenges the listener to question whether as occupants of the earth‚ we look beyond our planet’s physical value. Featured in Disney’s

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    The entirety of the story revolves around the traits of the main characters and their relationships with not only themselves but with nature as well. The author’s use of personification actively contributes to the theme through the traits of nature and being able to further explain the attributes of it. Personification allows the reader to compare nature’s destructiveness to the destructive nature of hate within the main characters‚ Ulrich and Georg. Somewhere this was used was when lightning

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