In life we often question whether it is meaningful. "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream." There is more to life than dreaming about the "what ifs." Longfellow explains the he…
Poem
Have you ever wanted to complete a task and thought, how am I ever going to do this on my own? You may need to ask for help to even get close to finishing. Both the poem "The Seeker," by J. Patrick Le…
Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous 19th-century poets, and a predominant theme in her poems is death and immortality. She describes death as a part of Nature or as a man's enemy and attacker of…
Death is an irreversible action, that unquestionably affects every living thing. Everyone is aware of existance, and everyone knows that it will inevitably come to them. For something so consistent in…
Have you ever questioned why everything is the way it is? That is an ongoing question that everyone tends to ponder, particularly the writers of The Odyssey. As a result, the gods were used in place o…
"When We Two Parted" is a poem written by George Gordon Byron, that talks about a man who is broken-hearted because he and his lover have parted. The overall theme of the poem, the pain of love lost, …
In the second line of the second stanza Wylie writes " I am, being woman, hard beset". This phrase suggests that being born a woman it is already certain to come with distress. The word "beset" gives …
How does Joy Harjo's poem "Praise the rain" reinforces us to value both good and evil after the colonization of Native Americans and the loss of their land? Daily, more and more of our natural resour…
Henry David Thoreau was an American writer and leading transcendentalist, famous for his book Walden. Walden acted as a pronouncement of independence and simple living, a social experiment, a journey …
In today's culture, war is frequently portrayed as wonderful and powerful. Many films exclude footage of young troops squandering their lives and tens of thousands of civilians dying in unheroic death…