The life at the front was terrible, and the food was no better. ... It has almost taken me over, the lines of life are running short. ... It is done by every man at the front every day. ... I would love to see you last one day out here in the front. ...
The first two lines of the poem sets up cummings sarcastic style well, first telling the reader to "pity this busy monster, manunkind," and then modifying the clause at the beginning of the following line (which has an additional space between the two lines) with "not." ... cummings thereupon begins to examine progress's victim, for whom (death and life [are] safely beyond) Typically, the two ideas are reversed in the form of life and death, but cummings chose to place the more concrete concept in front and then move on to the more abstract. ... Ignoring the parenthetical aside, cummi...
Everyman is more of a realistic, moral type allegory, and The Seventh Seal is more along the lines of a political, social allegory. ... Some may take longer than others to come to the realization, for it does in actuality "lay between the lines.... Among this game Antonius searches and searches for his one good-deed, only to realize it's right in front of him, and when the time comes he 'performs' it well. ...
Redemption has been an immense topic among many Hollywood movies. In real life this road to redemption is not as glamorous and fairytale-like as it is made out to be on the big screen. In the novel The Wars, the author, Timothy Findley develops the idea that an individual such as Robert Ross, who is...
When her mother crumples under the pressure of life, she is able to smooth out her appearance to put on a good face in front of her daughter, and Gwen is especially grateful for that. ... The lines obscene bundle of stuff that dropped and dribbled tangling in bowels hobbled in it's own blood' provide a vivid imagery of the owl's death, the catalyst. ...
