And in my fantastic voyage
There came only the sound of trees
And one said:
'I am not a man
Though it seems to me
that men live grudgingly
as though their tenacious will to live
is ever contested with a longing for the earth'
Soon enoough, we all head for where we'd come
was my reply
The tree did but sigh
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John Donne, generally regarded as the father of metaphysical poetry, writing in the late 16th-early 17th century, has given critics ever since no shortage of literary puzzles. Read More »
Ovid begins Metamorphoses, like Apollodorus does in The Library of Greek Mythology with a version of the creation myth. Apollodorus’s account appropriately opens his informative but plain narrative. The story of how the heavens and earth were formed does not, however, fit as neatly into the general patterning of plot in Metamorphoses. Read More »
Central to the arguments found in both W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson, is the notion that the African American individual senses a “double consciousness,” a phrase coined by Du Bois to describe the lag, or discrepancy felt by the black man between how he perceives himself and how he is perceived by society at large. Read More »
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In a matter of mere centuries, Mexico suffered the Conquest (by the Spanish,) long periods of colonization and exploitation, dictatorship and a rocky revolution. After the Revolution, even more chaos and instability took hold as Mexico attempted to recognize itself both separate from the world and with the larger, universal framework. Read More »
In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's last piece of written work which surveys the books that became representative of his philosophies, he credited The Birth of Tragedy, his first book-length essay, as having accomplished the following: Read More »
The second law of thermodynamics says that isolated systems will deteriorate at an increased rate in time. Entropy is just the opposite of order; entropy is disorder, the breaking down of things. In order to oppose this law, systems must engage in interactions with the environment at large as well as each other. Read More »
