The Sunday Times Essays

. with skill and discrimination' -- Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times 'Mr Gardner, who has chosen, introduced and put notes to this admirable anthology, shows the First World War poets in all moods' -- The Times 'To read through this anthology is ... to live the years 1914-1918, adding to the images of battle which most of us have already, the actual feelings expressed by the soldier poets who lived, and died, through trench warfare' -- Times Education Supplement Susan Hill wrote ^Strange Meeting(2)

Robert Hayden’s poem there are a few lines that are crucial to the understanding of the speaker’s tone, thoughts and feelings and to the understanding of the poem as a whole. I have found the following words and phrases to be the most important: “Sundays”, “my father”, “blueblack cold”, “cracked hands”, “labor”, “No one ever thanked him”, “cold splintering, breaking”, “chronic angers”, “indifferently”, “love’s austere” and “lonely offices”. From simply reading through these words, one can already

Another day Sarah comes home exhausted from swim practice. She showers, has dinner with her family, and by the time she is ready to start homework, her body is ready to go to bed. Sarah is a junior in high school and a typical teenage girl. She is on student council, the swim team, and takes a couple of honors classes. She has a busy schedule, but everyone else does too. Sarah prepares herself to spend the next 3 hours on homework even though it is already 8pm and she knows that she is going to wake

Since the dawn of time, people have been longing for different reasons. Some examples are for love, for peace, or even maybe longing for the chance to go back to their family roots. This cycle of human emotion will never end and that is why numerous poems are written for expression of these repressed feelings. One example of an expression of repression is the beautiful poem “Upon Hearing Tagalog” by Fatima Lim-Wilson. The poem’s tone, word-choice, and even the figurative language used contribute

to spend excess amounts of time in school. There would be no need to say goodbye to our friend, summer.

Or something. Shit, you don’t know. You’re like seventeen. And it’s summer still, so that means you have just a little more time to fuck around before responsibility and doubt and the anguish of impending adulthood manages to hunt you down again. You sit up and throw on some clothes that make you vaguely presentable to the outside world. Then, you grab your phone, and it’s bright

studying was unfamiliar territory. I didn’t usually participate in study groups, or spend so much time on a single assignment. I never had had the need to, before now. Finally, after four arduous hours, I finished the assignment. I turned it in, and hoped to never be subject to so much red again. I was embarrassed for days after resubmitting the homework. However, after I got it back the second time (free from red, thank goodness), I joined the study group for physics with a little more gusto than

Stellar Academic Record: While a stellar academic record is not exactly a ‘skill’ required to be a successful solicitor in the City, it indicates that the solicitor in question has some of the qualities required for success. A stellar academic record shows that the solicitor possesses intellectual ability and can put that intellectual ability to use through hard work and focus. I understand that the work of a solicitor in a City law firm is rigorous and demanding. So the solicitor in question must

some of their most well-known works including “Imagine” and “Bloody Sunday” respectively. Although both songs speak out against war and its effects at different periods in time, “Bloody Sunday” utilizes chilling, graphic imagery to communicate its message whereas “Imagine” asks the audience to imagine a series of fanciful, far-fetched scenarios to get the same point across. Ultimately, the personal level in which “Bloody Sunday” connects with

Many authors utilize imagery to allow the reader to engage in and understand their works. In Robert Frost’s “Birches,” there are several instances where the poem contains heavy usage of imagery for this purpose. The meaning of the poem “Birches” is very under-the-surface— the entire poem focuses on bent birches— too vague for the central purpose to be clear and solid. However, the poem’s copious examples of imagery enable the audience to grasp the scenery that Frost is attempting to describe. In

He illustrates time after time that life is such a wonderful gift and by not living up to the fullest is a waste. Whitman believes that God has created all men and women equal with each other and everyone should be treated the same. During the time that this poem was written, many tensions were rising and the preparations for the Civil War escalated and Whitman illustrates in this

Since the existence of human beings, there have been creation myths to explain how life existed on the planet. These creation myths have a huge impact on how people view utopia. Nearly every culture or society has its own creation myth, which is just a version of how humans came to exist on the planet Earth. Many religions also have their own versions, such as the Christians, Islamic, and Jewish. Some cultures with creation myths include the Greeks, the Romans, the Norse, the Chinese, the Mayans

Those Winter Sundays and One Last Time at first glance are not texts that seem similar in any way, especially since they are two completely different genres of writing. The truth is that both of these texts have a connection to one another, but first we must take a more in depth look at each text. Those Winter Sundays is a three stanza poem that superficially seems to be about what a Sunday morning in the home of the speaker, who is a child. For me to get a better understanding of this poem, I used

beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea. ” (Golding 137). Simon is dead and his body is drifting away in the sky night. The author uses sorrow word choice. This tells readers that this is a sad set in time. Savagery is the cause of the word choice the author used in this chapter. The effect of the boys killing Simon caused William Golding to use sad words. In Chapter nine of the “Lord of the Flies”, William Golding utilize animal imagery, natural image

When it comes to motivational speeches, the pre-game speech given by Al Pacino in the movie Any Given Sunday ranks with the best of them. This speech was given before a big championship game football game to a professional football team that was crumbling apart. Even though the aging coach’s job was on the line, he gave this speech not to save his job, but instead to motivate his team to put differences apart and come together and to inspire them to perform the way they were capable. Al Pacino is

Did you know some people hunt humans for pure enjoyment? This is true in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”. Richard Connell writes a story in the time of 1924 that consists directly from the idea of hunters hunting humans. This starts when a big game hunter named Rainsford finds himself stranded on a unknown island by accident and runs into a chateau where he meets a suspicious man named Zaroff, from there Rainsford finds out Zaroff hunts humans who come to the island by trapping them with a lure

The boys kill Simon in the book because the boys think he is a form of fear, the beast. At first, the beast is nothing but the in boys imaginations, but then as time passes, they create images in their head of what the beast looks like. Simon awakens, and then finds the parachutist that frightened Sam and Eric. He then examines it and realizes it is not the beast. He attempts to go inform the others of what he

in how we connect with one another, how we interact with products and services, and how we receive entertainment are among the most stark in my lifetime. These are done through multiplying memories, customization, and customers actually being part-time employees of the business. To begin with, let’s examine multiplying memories through the lens of one of the premier and ubiquitous phenomena in the United States over the last 15 years: fantasy football. I am not at all a fan of participating in fantasy

and at lunch we pray before we go to the gym. Praying with someone is great, but for me, praying by myself helps me focus more. Another way I will improve in my faith is going to church every Sunday. I will set an alarm for 10:30 every Sunday so that I get to church on time. Attending church every Sunday helps me relax and talk to God. If my family and I are on vacation we will try to find a church near or pray the rosary. I attend church with my parents, my brother, and a friend if they stay

Imagine yourself lost in the woods at night all alone as a child. There's no adults or anyone else around that you know of. That monster in the closet that everyone talks about is in the back of your mind and you feel like he's watching you from the darkness, and suddenly a friend, a child like you, comes out of the woods and scares you unintentionally. Your immediate reaction is to run or fight due to fear and you realize that your actions can be unpredictable when you're scared. This was a problem