All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical fiction novel by Erich Maria Remarque. It was first published in 1929 and is based on Remarque’s experiences as a soldier in World War I. Throughout the novel, Remarque uses imagery and his characters to critique how war is often romanticized and viewed as patriotic and an honor, because he views war as inglorious and destructive. Remarque’s thoughts and critiques of war can still be applied today because war is still as glamorized and harmful as it was in World War I. Remarque critiques the romantic rhetoric of war and honor, while showing how he feels that war is inglorious by mentioning the horrors of the war, like death, and by demonstrating how the ordinary person cannot understand war.
The correspondent is realizing that he has taken for granted the frailness of human life. In “The Open Boat,” Crane is able to successfully reveal the struggles one might encounter while maneuvering a small boat in the vast ocean. The reader feels like a companion in the dinghy due to Crane’s detailed description of the ocean setting. His character’s personas feel genuine and he uses symbolism to invoke empathy in the reader.
Coleridge and Shelley published their works during the Enlightenment and Romantic Eras, the time when people moved away from a religious perspective and moved towards natural enlightenment. While there was a shift away from religious writings, both novelist and poet thought it important to include Biblical connections in their novels. In Coleridge’s epic, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the Mariner (the
The open seas are simultaneously a boon and a curse to travelers; they represent freedom to sail to any part of the world, but not before Mother Nature tests their endurance with turbulent weather. In some cases, that weather is too ferocious for the passengers and results in a shipwreck that also has positive and negative consequences. The ones involved undergo life changing events that alter their own attitude of themselves and the surroundings as well their attitudes towards others. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy highlights the boat scene to provide deeper insight of their desolate world that helps to redefine the man more than any other scene. Shipwrecks are unfortunate for the ones on board, but in this novel they represent and a sense
Journal 2 Development of writing and the Phoenician Mediterranean World Trade Today I met the Phoenicians, the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean. The Phoenicians are remarkable shipbuilders and seafarers. They are the first Mediterranean people to venture beyond the Strait of Gibraltar. The Phoenicians’ most important city states in the eastern Mediterranean are Sydon, Tyre, and Byblos. They built colonies along the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia, and Spain and the northern coast of Africa.
Whereas Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” written in 1798 is about the mariner’s forced exploration of unknown parts of the earth, director Ridley Scott’s latest film The Martian: Bring Him Home set in the 22nd century starring Matt Damon is about an accident that happened during an expedition to Mars. Likewise both pioneers experience hardships and survive to tell their tales. Both are testament to the resilience of men and the protagonists’ will to survive. The theme of both is similar that human endurance and the will to survive are strong and that might be enough to ensure the survival of the human race.
The French Revolution is widely recognized as one of the most influential events of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe, with far reaching consequences in political, cultural, social, and literary arenas. It affected first- and second-generation Romantics in different ways. First-generation poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, the most well-known members of the “Lake District” school of poetry, initially sympathized with the philosophical and political principles of the Revolution. A common theme among some of the most widely known romantic poets though is their acceptance and approval of the French Revolution, if not in the means entirely, the ideas and concepts were valued.
In this story, Mariner speaks to the natural world as though it is a character itself. He offended nature when he killed the albatross, so he was punished spiritually. Then he was punished physically. The wind died down, the sun got unbearably hot, and it was unable to rain. On page 826 lines 115-119, Coleridge says “Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion; as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”
Ancient Greece was mountainous and almost every place in Greece was close to the sea. As a result travelling by sea using sea vehicles started very early on in the region. People used boats to catch fish, for trading as well as for wars. The ancient Greeks became master sailors due to the frequent use of boats for travel.
One theme of Salt to the Sea is that fear, guilt, fate and shame affect everyone and causes them to do different things. Joana describes that “guilt is a hunter” (1) and that she is a “hostage to it.” (603) Every where so goes someone is loves dies or is taken from her. She lives with this guilt that she should have done more to save them, even though there is nothing more that she could really do.
The Charge of the Light Brigade by the English Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland Alfred, Lord Tennyson recounts the Battle of Balaclava between the British and the Russian Empire, which took place during the Crimean War. The poem contemplates the greatness of dying while serving ones’ country, and the mismanagement of the British Government Army. In 1854 Britain and France were in war with Russia for the region of Crimea, from here we get name of the Crimean War. The poem is inspired by one of the greatest calamities of the British military history: the massacre of the British Light Cavalry Brigade composed by 627 men, who charged against a Russian army of more than 2000 soldiers.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem stated with the mariner was telling a story in a wedding banquet, and he told the guests about his horrible experience of sailing. The disaster happened after the old mariner shot the Albatross with his impulse, which set horrible consequences later on. The setting of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was terrible and supernatural. There were two important animals in the poem, one of them was the Albatross, and the other was the water snake.
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Taylor Coleridge uses symbolism. One of his main uses of symbolism is the Albatross. The Albatross is symbolic of our sin; and when we sin, it is as if we killed the Albatross, and it is hung around our necks as the weight of our sin and shame. The Albatross falling from the narrator’s shoulders is symbolic of the salvation that Jesus provides.
The first geological period during the Paleozoic Era was the Cambrian period. This period took place roughly around 542 to 488.3 million years ago. During this period was when most animal groups stared to appear in fossils. This was also the time were the earth had one super continent, which was called Rodinia. The climate during this period was mild and the oceans were beginning to become oxygenated (The Cambrian Period).
However, not everyone believed or felt that he was as uncorrupted. Critics and poets alike found ways to voice their concerns, especially around the time of his death. Samuel Coleridge, famous poet, contributed to the work of “The Fall of Robespierre” that was published just after his death. During the first act, characters, Couthon and St. Just, speak of the fear they possess in regard to Robespierre. St. Just states fearfully, “I cannot fear him — yet we must not scorn him” to describe the contempt that even those close to Robespierre felt for his actions.
