Language Usage It was postulated that the problem of Filipino vis -vis English language usage is not our fascination for the latter but our derision for the former. Of course, there are exceptions to this instance. However, generally we Filipinos do view English as more superior language than o...
Frodo wakes in the house of Elrond in Rivendell. Gandalf is beside him and he tells the Hobbit that his friends are all safe. The wizard knows about most of their journey because the Hobbit has been talking in his sleep. Gandalf was delayed and could not guide them because he was held captive. Frodo...
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain I am the shadow that follows a child I am an eagle playing with the wind I am the farthest star I am the whole dream of these things You see, I am alive, I am alive In this poem the author is conscious of his interconnectedness and he illustrates how he sees the world as himself. ...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
