Less tangible than the will to live, the true force that drives ever human being is the will to experience. Though each individual has specific needs for fulfillment, many people are under the impression that there is a specific purpose for everyone; that there is a divine plan. Others feel that life, “destiny,” is what [...]
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A part of all that I have met…
Posted in English, assignments, tagged Journey of the Magi, quest, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson, Ulysses on 12/11/08 | 1 Comment »
Sonnet 18
Posted in English, assignments on 12/09/08 | Leave a Comment »
A brief, informal, and utterly uninsightful response to Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Below some of you, but the laymen may be interested. Read the poem here.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
I find Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet particularly intriguing since its theme is such a source of [...]
The Horse-Dealer’s Dead
Posted in English, assignments, tagged D.H. Lawrence, Horse Dealer's Daughter, Love on 04/04/08 | 1 Comment »
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Many authours may pride themselves on the avoiding of cliché; however, for D.H. Lawrence, cliché was never even an option. For Lawrence the challenge does not lie in finding new means of illustration, but in the illumination of that which no one else has dared approach. This is just the case in his short [...]
