John Keats "Ode to Psyche" is a lyrical poem that is revealed through a euphoric utopia where ideas and aspirations become the fundamental elements that maintain the human spirit. The persona's perpetual love for the goddess Psyche is clear by way of his proposal to create the perfect life for her....
Sticks and Stones Today seemed like any other summer day in the eyes of a seven year-old. The sun is shining bright as ever, the air smells of freshly cut grass and the only thing on my mind is how long it will take for me to get to the park. But, unseen through my park-bound mind was the fact...
In, "Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert, the ways in which Emma was affected by the tales of romance and utopias that she read from her books deeply molded her into an impatient, bratty, foolish, and unrealistic woman, who essentially dug her own grave. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...