Style : - 6 stanzas, 4-lines each - Traditional meter, often found in hymns and nursery rhymes - Iambic pentameter Analysis: Lines 1-2- Death is greatly personified in these lines. ... Death "kindly" comes to get her, knowing that she keeps herself busy. 2 Lines 3-4- The third passenger in the coach is a silent, mysterious stranger. ...
In addition to feeling "like a stranger in his own dying" (142), Jack begins to experience the scientific certainty of his death: "We are all the sum total of our data . . . just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses" (202) with an overpowering sense of dread. ... Delillo's analysis implies, then, that safety can only be found in conformity and a dead life dictated by others. ...
Dr Berne's conclusion was that the harder the script that the person has is the easies to talk to a stranger. ... The best way to analysis a patient by a psychoanalyst would be to get all of his script first and then to look in the book by Lang and Thompson and get a sound fairy story and not vice versa. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
