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Poetic Complexity of 'Intimations of Immortality' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper discusses perceptions and childhood as they are addressed in the complex 'Intimations of Immortality' by ...

Poetry of Robert Frost and Immortality

In five pages the Frost poems 'Design,' 'After Apple Picking' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' are analyzed in terms of ...

Gilgamesh, 'The Odyssey' and Heroic Epics

In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...

Philosophy According to Rene Descartes and Plato

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

Philosophy and Imagination in William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

poets intended to discard the pompous idiom of eighteenth century verse, and to employ the real language of modern men and women -...

Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature

In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...

Immortal Soul in Phaedo by Plato

In two pages this paper considers how Socrates presents the soul's immortality in Phaedo by Plato. There are no other sources lis...

Soul Theory of Plato Featured in The Republic, Phaedrus, and Crito

In nine pages this paper considers Plato's views regarding the soul's immortality as featured in three of his dialogues. There ar...

'The Iliad' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh' on Death and the Afterlife

These two classic epics are contrasted and compared regarding the perspectives on death and immortality in the afterlife contained...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Weakness of Character in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...

Western Civilization's Decline According to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche

In 4 pages this paper considers how Nietzsche and Dostoevsky similarly believed Western Civilization was declining but viewed diff...

Characters by Henrik Ibsen and Fydor Dostoevsky and Self Deception

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

Science and Religion Clash in the Paintings of Salvador Dali

In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

Dreams and Their Function in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Dream of Raskolnikov

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

Perspectives of Ideology, Postmodernism, and Existentialism

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

The Symbol of Love

fully developed, three dimensional people and they cannot be easily labeled, which is the point. Raskolnikov killed a repulsive ol...

The Symbol of Suffering

entire character development is based on the idea that he is crucifying himself through the device of his mental anguish. He has n...

Six Stories and Lower and Upper Classes

structure, which basically picture the lower classes as not "as good" as those fortunate enough to be a member of the ruling class...

Wordsworth/Ode, Intimations of Immortality

he disavows his grief, which "does the season wrong" (line 26). It is spring, the "heart of May" (line 31), and Wordsworth will no...

Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry and Self Identity

a persons soul retain identity after the body is gone? In other words, even if the soul survived but none of that element which wa...

Concepts of Immortality

This 11 page paper uses the Bhagavad Gita, The Dybbuk and The Monkey as sources to examine concepts of rebirth, the soul and the a...

John Harris's 'Intimations of Immortality'

births would have to be seriously controlled. True, the population wouldnt look old since aging would be negated, but mentally, t...

Refusing Immortality in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay considers Odysseus' refusal to transform from mortal to immortal in terms of reasons why this stance was ...

Post 1870 Europe II

In four pages four brief essays regarding Europe since 1870 include issues of human rights, Fascism of Benito Mussolini, hypotheti...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...