The reader is instantly thrown into thoughts and images of a new beginning in what seems to be an already dead entity. ... The exuberance in this poem is seen to be this omnipotent light, which awakens even the dead skeletons in their graves and empowers glow-worms to bring the skeleton to life. ... By close analysis the poet appears to be talking about the dead, relating back to the "no sun shines" part of the title. ... The poet carries on with this theme of life evolving from something that is meant to be dead. ... the sequence to end, the being is dead an buried in what seems to be an ope...

• Word Count: 2553
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... The description of the actual bodies of the dead birds is extremely poignant as the "snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops" is noted. ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The third aphorism, "When you're in bed, you're dead" warns of taking the acceptance of death too far. Morrie's logic is that if you stay in bed all day, as if you have nothing to get up for, then you really do have nothing to get up for and you may as well be dead. ...

• Word Count: 2744
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

As pointed out by Willard Gaylin in his essay, Harvesting the Dead, the technology we have developed has essentially changed the definition of death. Now although a person could be declared dead, he could have willed his usefulness beyond his mortality. ...

• Word Count: 3017
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

This sense of closeness would bring comfort to Jews through the knowledge that they are loved while living and will be mourned by many when dead, and that they have the support of many in times of hardship. ... Christians believe that Jesus died for the salvation of the human race, that God raised him from the dead, and that Jesus will come again at the end of time to live once again on earth. ...

• Word Count: 2793
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Science has forever been trying to analyze the earth, and find out what is wrong with it. Questions were raised as to why things happen on Earth the way they do. One of these questions is, "How does the earth act the way that it does?- Science has many different theories on it. One of these is th...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The term euthanasia is not new to the twentieth century. Even in ancient societies, terminally ill people requested to have their lives ended; though the meaning of euthanasia for them differed from its meaning today. The English word euthanasia is taken from the Greek eu thanatos "good or easy death." However today it is given a different meaning, because of the social and moral issues it touches. In the present day the term euthanasia is associated with the act of mercifully (although some might argue this point) ending the life of a hopelessly suffering patient with his or her consent. ...

• Word Count: 3506
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

In all of his novels evaluated Richard Russo wrote things that fit into the theme of social roles in small towns. In "Straight Man," "Mohawk," and "Empire Falls," there are central male characters, William Henry Devereaux, Dallas Younger, and Miles Roby respectively whose lives and the one's of thos...

• Word Count: 2605
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

His inability to realize certain things about his life will come through in a painful epiphany later in the story, after his dreams have been shattered by the harsh reality of Gallaher's character, just as the dreams of the Irish have been shattered and cloaked under a reputation of the past and a pride on those that are long dead. ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate