Neruda lived by the sea at Isla Negra, where he spent most of his time at. ... The speaker is (here) in this world and his beloved is (there) far away in the world beyond. ... Far away the sea sounds and resounds. ... The "sea sounds and resounds" symbolizes memories gathered in time. ... The grief of separation is immense in this poem because the speaker is alone here in this physical world. ...

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As Edna walked into the sea and swam, her life flashed in front of her. ... Throughout the summer, Edna has been unable to swim because she is afraid of abandoning herself to the sea's embrace. Being trapped in a life in which Edna is controlled by her husband, she felt that if she goes swimming she is giving her life to the sea because it is a voice of seductive longing. ... (pg. 94) Gradually discarding the false self that she assumed "like a garment with which to appear before the world,"" Edna can no longer live a life where the phonier she acts, the more depression builds up. ...

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His journeys take him all over the world, however mainly Africa and Europe. ... She felt lost and lonely with no escape from a world of hell. ... The Little Prince was written in New York City in 1940 and according to some sources, the third most read book in the world in this century. ... After the beginning of World War II, Exupery moved back to France and joined the army once again. On July 31, 1944, during a mission over the Mediterranean Sea, his plane was shot down and he was killed. ...

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Within the Elizabethan comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare masterfully takes two characters of the mortal world, Hippolyta and Theseus, and uses them to illuminate the world of another couple, Titania and Oberon, who occupy the opposite side of the spectrum, a world of disorder, disenchantment, and disillusionment. ... This obscure idea shows just how whimsical the world of the fairies is. ... They are able to travel around the world. ... The worlds of order and disorder begin to collide. ... Titania is the one who has to submit her feelings to Oberon to create temporary or...

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This is explained by Morpheus" search for them, the people he will need in order to save the world. ... This encounter occurs when Peter is at sea in the middle of a storm. ... Christ plans on saving the world by building a church by means of Peter where as Morpheus plans on saving the world by destroying the matrix by means of Neo. ... Some people will attempt to avoid the real world and try to live their life in a fantasy world; something which is seen in the movie with the Alice in Wonderland references. ... Neo, like Peter, is the one chosen to save rebuild the world and is therefore...

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Whoever has become thoughtful and melancholy through his own mishaps or those of others; whoever has borne about with him the clouded brow of reflection, and thought himself "too much i' th' sun;" whoever has seen the golden lamp of day dimmed by envious mists rising in his own breast, and could find in the world before him only a dull blank with nothing left remarkable in it; whoever has known "the pangs of despised love, the insolence of office, or the spurns which patient merit of the unworthy takes;" he who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a ...

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The world is a blur in all your peripheral and all you see is a boy in black, with hair of white wailing on a violin under a bridge in Yekaterinburg. ... Across the sea I could hear the taxis, the talking, and the bustling energy of New York and knew it was where I had to go. ... I'll spare you from the wish-washy mess of emotions and cliches of a break-up but rather express it in the singularity of all my moments so far in this world. ... Two bags that carried the weight of my entire world. ... In another world, perhaps a less practical, more romantic world I would have chased after h...

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Really, the author has figured out how to portray an incomprehensible circumstance when two persons adore one another, or they say they do, however they cannot generally be together as one due to the emotional contrast in their perspectives and impression of the world. ... Actually, dissimilar to Son, Jadine does not know her roots and she gets the chance to be assimilated into another world where Son can't generally survive. ... The triumph of ingenuity that had transferred the bored treachery of the sea into a playful gush of water that did exactly what it was told" (Morrison 1996,...

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Growing up in world of debauchery and shame for being born, I earnestly longed for His touch, the one I learned about in church. ... Inside I was young, vibrant, and alive, but the world appeared to me to be dark, and a mirage of that intangible concept known as love. ... Inside my world, however, I never knew what real love looked and felt like. ... The one who said, "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin" (Luke 17:2). ...

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The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, spread from the Italian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in a northbound wave of destruction and mayhem that traveled towards France, England, and beyond, killing one in three people. ... In Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Abbey of Théleme, he speaks of a world turned upside down. In Rabelais' world, everything is opposite. ... Also, there was to be no clock for this unique abbey, since everything else in the world is already limited and regulated by hours. ... He writes: A great many men have imagined states and princedoms such as ...

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"Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall -- and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea;--have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her. ... Both can be true; if she was devout, God is her father but in the earthly world He could not be Pearl's actual father. ... "The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies, and as her tears fell upon her fat...

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Despite the many pleasures of Paradise, they would quickly determine, using their innate intellect and ability to reason, that they are of no consequence in the world "they would feel useless and unimportant. ... The daily quest for survival would provide little time to reflect on life's meaning and one's place in the world. ... Adam notes that they are "Among so many signes of power and rule Conferrd upon us, and Dominion giv'n Over all other Creatures that possess Earth, Aire, and Sea- (ll. 429-432). ...

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