The pastoral is considered to be a mode rather than a genre because it is a way of thinking and it can allow for a range of different opinions based on its varying content. ... This has to be understood as artificial as man and nature are separate entities. ... Values peace and peace with each other through images of shepherds piping and dancing and cliches. ...
The poems are presentations of a contradiction between innocence and experience, two areas of life through which we all must pass and are, in initial appearance at least, very similar to the genre of late eighteenth-century children's poetry, in terms of theme, title and simplicity. ... I believe The lamb' symbolizes Jesus, and the traditional image of Jesus as a lamb underscores the Christian values of gentleness, meekness, and peace. ... The two separate collections, although tackling different subjects or applying a different perspective, both concentrate on one larger subject, t...
The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. ... (Chambers 2002) Common themes developed " for peace against war, for democracy and justice against exploitation and tyranny " and common forms too, e.g. ...
In their minds, the North served as their Canaan and is recognizable in certain spirituals, "a distinctive musical genre derived from the fusion of the Anglo-American style of hymnody with the distinctive rhythms and concerns of the slave community".12 Slaves saw that the story of Exodus contradicted the White-American notion that blacks were meant to be kept in enslavement and seemed to prove that the fundamental ideas that slavery was built upon were against the will of God and would come to an end.13 Some scholars believed that much of the African heritage that slaves had prior to thei...
In spite of its clear retort to injustice upon inception, Israel falls prey to the very same consequences of oppressive injustice, in that while its ideology comes as a response to injustice served to Jews, in reality this very ideology recreates injustice for others.5 Restitution and reconciliation are topics of the peace talks, and while they go mentioned remain unconstituted. ...
