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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

3 Authors on Seeking That Which is Unattainable

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares how the unattainable is represented in Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man,' Henrik Ibs...

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 ...

Defending Platonic Philosophy and the Human Soul's Immortality

In eight pages this paper defends Plato's assertion regarding the immortality of the human soul with references made to his text P...

Soul Concepts of Plato

In a type of author/character debate, Plato explores the premises of his theory by having Socrates debate them. Plato theorized ...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

'On the Immortality of the Soul' by David Hume

the immortality of the soul. The main points are as follows. First of all, Hume points out that the soul is said to be immaterial,...

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...

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 ...

Socrates' Arguments in Phaedo by Plato

soul has two principal parts. The first part of this argument is that nature inevitably follows a cyclical pattern. All vegetatio...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

Thematic Comparison of Gilgamesh with Current Events

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

Wordsworth and Childhood

in many respects because they are so deeply connected, still, to that ethereal existence. Wordsworth then speaks of how "Shades ...

Immortality and Tithonus

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

Immortality: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy

point that immortality may not exist at all. The only true thing is suffering and pain and that people may well convince themselve...

Immortality: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake and Shelley

time and youth as one that is part of nature, something he has observed as well. In his work titled Intimations of...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Phaedo, Socrates and Immortality

the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

What is Plato's Republic Really About?

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

Sutton Hoo and its Relationship to Literature

princes do not seem as relevant as the observation regarding Germany (Hills 741). Yet, while it is important to note that the buri...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...