William Blake attempts to discover the very moment when evil was created in his poem "The Tyger-. ... Even at this early stage of the poem, Blake is making it abundantly clear that he wishes the Tyger to take on a menacing and, fundamentally, evil fazade. ... To try and make the poem more historically significant or more universal to a larger group of people, Blake uses two popular images to signify God. ... Thus, Blake makes the poem more universal as well as to appear timeless. ... Here, the reader is lead to incorporate more Greek mythology into the analysis of the poem. ...

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even...

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Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man who expressed his beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own self-criticism. He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to...

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When he was thirteen he was offered a scholarship to Wellington, and then Eton, both famous public schools. ... It seems that his influences in the manner were quite strange for the time, as stated, When he finished at Eton, Eric signed on with the Burmese police, partly because his father had influence at the Colonial Office, partly because he was seduced by Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay (which Orwell bizarrely considered to be the finest poem in the English language), with its promise of "a Burma girl a-settin' " by the old Moulmein pagoda. ...

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Dante wrote his famous comedy on how if one wants salvation he must experience pain and suffering before he can be happy. ... It is true that we also can write poems with our mind and make paintings and music and invent theories and philosophies. ...

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