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The Influence of Ancient Greece on Modern Culture
The Influence of Ancient Greece on Modern Culture
Greece and its influence along the western culture
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This humanoid molded wood casket is a fabulous sample of the aesthetic and religious practices in the late Dynastic and early Greco-Roman periods. Its wonderfully painted decorations and pictographs conjure the divine beings to ensure the expired a man named Pedusiri, whose mummy has not survived. His readied body was likely encased in a cartonnage-a packaging of put, painted, and varnished material before being set in the pine
He uses many rhetorical devices such as rhymes, metaphor, repetition, alliteration etc… Firstly, the whole poem’s structure is structured in a poetic way using rhyme schemes. He uses words like “dreamed” and “schemed(line 6 and 8), “wreathe” and “breathe”(
The poem shows us the struggles of Yusef to suppress his emotions in thinking that he is a stone like the granite memorial. A stone which is a strong and a steady reminder of the past, then he realized that he might be a memory but he is not like the stone because Yusef is a living human being. Through the poem the author shared the darkness, the blackness, with the granite
The use of imagery invokes a sense of discomfort and disgust in the speaker. In “Plums Failing Well”, the only attention they receive is from “ants and birds”. This indicates that humans have absolutely zero respect towards the plums. In fact, the only attention they receive is from the lower class creatures such as “ants”. By using personification, if “only they can breath”, the poet is comparing plums to humans.
I have interpreted these lines in one way, yet there are a million different possibilities. The author puts the words onto the paper, but the reader’s job is to interpret their own emotion, memory or belief and actually apply it to the poet’s words in order to create an
The overall theme of the poem is sacrifice, more specifically, for the people that you love. Throughout the poem color and personification are used to paint a picture in the reader's head. “Fog hanging like old Coats between the trees.” (46) This description is used to create a monochromatic, gloomy, and dismal environment where the poem takes
“In a social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” said Erik Erikson, a psychologist known for his theory on the psychosocial development of humans. Reef Kennedy is a trouble-making orphan who hangs out with his friends, Bigger and Jink, vandalizing buildings and getting in trouble with the law. A ruined childhood from losing his parents and grandparents puts Reef in a hopeless position that he will have to dig himself out of and find his true identity. |He tries to rebuild his life by helping other people, but realizes he was the center of the accident all along. In the novel First Stone by Don Aker, Reef shows how true identity affects the actions of a human being, proving it with character
Similes in the poem such as ‘till he was like to drop’ are used to create a more descriptive image in the reader’s mind. Metaphors when saying ‘He lifted up his hairy paw’ and in many other sections of the poem to exaggerate areas to give the reader a more interesting view. So the poet can express what he is trying to prove through and entertaining way. The imagery device enhances the poem to make it stand out more so it grabs the reader attention. The poem was a very entertaining and humorous.
Image- An image that portrays the poem would display a full moon with dark grey clouds looming below it. I can imagine a tall tower at the side with the doors leading to the balcony to be open. I can see a male ghost towering a sleeping woman. Symbol-
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Kates is one of the five odes that he wrote. Kates lived in the romantic era, which glorified nature and focused on emotions. We can tell that he was greatly influenced by his era from this poem. This poem is abundant with paradoxes like heard melodies are batter than those who are unheard and the trees that connot bid the spring adieu, which is both good and bad. It is good that people do not lose their loved ones in this world, but it can be also bad because they cannot grow and carry on with their lives.
Symbolism in general is the building blocks to all sources of literature and can shape a piece of writing in many ways. Symbols in general can portray what something or someone represents, giving a deeper and metaphorical meaning to a symbol. Symbolism is often used within poetry, literature, music, or even art. This is how an author conveys a different meaning to the audience. For example artists may use the color “red” not only because of the color theory, but to convey love, passion, and maybe even health.
In the second stanza, Auden directly addresses this painting and is thorough in his description of it. In it, Icarus, a figure of Greek mythology that flies too close to the sun, falls into the sea since his wings had molten. He crashes, “the white legs disappearing into the green water” (lines 18-19), yet none of the bystanders, neither “the ploughman” who has “heard the splash, the forsaken cry” (lines 15-16) nor “the expensive delicate ship that must have seen something amazing” (lines 19-20) come to his rescue to save him from drowning. The ploughman’s attitude towards the fall, since “for him it was not an important failure” (line 17) further trivializes the tragic proceedings. Even the sun, responsible for Icarus’ fall, is depicted as showing indifference towards Icarus’ fate through an apparent obligation because it “shone as it had to” (line 17-18).
James Shokoff wrote a literary criticism over my poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. Shokoff is a journalist, and strongly discusses his opinion on the poem in Soul-Making in ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn. Shokoff believes that the question he does not have answered in the poem remains an unsolved mystery. Shokoff agrees with my thesis that symbolism and identification is not a weakness of the poem, but shows great significance. In this criticism the main question is, is the “beauty-truth identification a consistent, meaningful conclusion to the poem” (Shokoff)?
Yet it holds the same human experiences, same human emotions, and same human ambitions. It holds the same sentiments we hold dear today, such as life and friendship in utmost importance. It speaks of human ambition to be remembered and to live forever, that can be found even up to this day. Gilgamesh attributed his immortality with enduring monuments, such as the city of Uruk, modern day individuals, in the same manner, attribute their immortality with the name they made for themselves. The truth of society, how nature works, and how human beings relate with each other, and how man’s actions can influence other things, are greatly intertwined.
There are seven stanzas in this poem and the techniques appeared in the poem are Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, and Alliteration. The imagery is the techniques used all over the seven stanzas in this poem to describe the image of the Death the movement, and the sound which included Auditory, Visual, and Kinetic. The First stanza described the environment in the cemeteries, the heart refers to the dead bodies in the graves and a tunnel could be coffins. The dead bodies sleeping in a tunnel which give the image of the coffin and in this stanza the poet also used a Simile in the last three lines by using word “like” and “as though.”
