After death our spirit departs from the body and from the present world and moves to another world where all spirits are living. ... They also believe that the soul will find the new body for living through reincarnation. ... The author pointed out that people placed in every of nine circles had different punishments for their sins, as every coming circle was linked with some particular sin. The sins presented in the poem are lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. ... "The Gates of Hell" depicted in the poem are very important, as ...

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The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts, and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. ... In religious literature, temptation is often seen as the ultimate transgression of faith, the revival of original sin. ... This is achieved through the use of enticing long adjectives such as 'languorous' and 'voluptuous', as well as the salient oxymoron 'diabolically sweet', emphasizing her hypnotic pull on the living. ... Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and Eve ar...

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(V, 1842-6) When liminally translated, this passage says to love him who, out of true love, died upon a cross and rose and sits in heaven; for he will not deceive any living creature who on him lays all his heart. ... In the above example, Jesus Christ will not "falsen- any living creature who trusts in him. ... This is an extremely powerful position as it is the final thought we read, and it tends to stay in our minds longer than does the rest of the poem. ... When reading the poem, one may wonder why Chaucer even bothers putting these last six stanzas in the poem. ... So why would Chau...

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The key poem in the Songs of Innocence is The Lamb. ... THE LAMB AND CHRIST Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! ... The issue of religion is quite confusing in this poem. ... The support that we can find for this in the Bible is in John 16:15: "Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ... These two sets form a whole and often the poems have to be analysed in...

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So, the last stanza answers the questions that we've been wondering through the poem. ... The poem develops an image of a family supporting their brother, and son, before he goes off to fight in Europe. ... Throughout the poem, Cummings uses the word "etcetera," for many different usages, and parts of speech. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ... Also, "i sing of Olaf," relates to a completely different poem Cummings wrote called "any man is wonderful."...

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Much of how Byron presented himself was a sort of facade; doing what he pleased to do, living his life without a care, and never quite accepting his own realities (MacCarthy xiii). ... Like other romantic poets, Byron often used highly structured and rigid traditional forms to craft his poems (Knight 208). ... Throughout his poetry he expresses his weaknesses and sexual sin; Byron suffers from self-guilt, self-hatred and banishment because of his incestual affair (Knight 208). ... The Byronic Hero was "a passionate, moody, restless character who has exhausted most of the world's ex...

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Homecoming, Alvarez's first publication, is a collection of poems that barely even hint that she is in fact Hispanic. The publication has only one poem that hints of color and only one Spanish word. ... "I was growing up / even as she scrubbed for dirt, / horns, anything that looked like sin." ... It is this creative set up that carries the reader through to "33," a long poem that takes up the vast majority of the collection. ... "Sometimes the words are so close I am / more who I am when I"m down on paper / than anywhere else / Who touches this poem touches a woman (Homecoming 102)."...

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In fact, the Bard's famous 14-line poems were subjective, highly autobiographical accounts of his life. ... This poem is about a husband's attempt to convince his wife to have children. ... When she looks upon her self, she will be looking into a mirror that reflects her past beauty, basically a living mirror of years before. ... This is so because her beauty will be kept alive eternally in the poem. ... On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of Shakespeare's love. ...

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The above words are from a poem written by Anna L. ... Is it a result of our sin, a symbol of our separation from God? ... In Romans 12:1-8, Paul states, "Therefore, I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. ...

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The words spoken by the Prince's father in Alfred Tennysons's poem The Princess illustrate the man's role in the Victorian Era from a man's point of view. ... The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Following the publication of Patmore's poem, the term angel in the house came to be used in reference to women who embodied the Victorian feminine ideal: a wife and mother who was selflessly devoted to her children and submissive to her husband. ...

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During that time, people believed in the Enlightenment, and industrial developments and scientific breakthroughs were a daily reality apparent in the rising standard of living. ... The poem "Rosie the Riveter- by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb paints a vivid picture of the role that women played in "making history, [w]orking for victory.""12 It also describes the long hours of work that women had to put out in order to fulfill their production quotas. ... Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering also stated in his 1942 radio broadcast to the German nation that raw materials such as coal and iron shou...

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It was during the time young Ibsen "briefly assisted an apothecary and began medical studies before beginning a lifetime association with the theatre" that he began writing satire and elegant poems according to the style prevalent during that period. ... In Peer Gynt, the rebel is against society where a young man chooses to live a life of a waste, only to find himself, ultimately, living in a world of lost opportunities. ...

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The Thought of One Ayn Rand, the author of many inspirational novels is one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century. She defines her self as, "I am not primaraly an advovate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recog...

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The "state of nature- of human beings was the focal point for many of the 1500th -1900th century philosophers. Many of these philosophers attempted to understand and describe humans in this original condition. One of the most intriguing aspects of man was the concept of human interaction as it per...

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American Prohibition "After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation there of, or the exploitation there of from the US and all its territories subject to the jurisdictio...

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There was only evidence that the standard of living would have gotten worse for Russians, they may have been destroyed by a war they were not equipped to fight in and this is why so many people saw Stalin's plans as genius rather than monstrosities; hard work and death as a necessary sacrifice for advancement. ...

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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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