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Symbolism in Yeat's Poetry

6/3/2016

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Sailing for Byzantium

“This is no country for old men”: This quote is yate’s stating that there is no place for a wonderous empire like Byzantium in the modern world as it is and should always be a relic of the ancient past
“Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unageing intellect.” This stands for the fact that the men and women in the painting are stuck happy in a different time forever as the art is immortal
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick’: This stands for the fact emphasised in the previous one the difference3s between real life and that of the painting

The Second Coming

"the falcon cannot hear the falconer.": This stands for the fact that the time has come where the people of God have strayed too far from his voice
The title itself is a symbol for Jesus’s second coming as foretold in the book of Revelation’s and the Gospels

When You Are Old

The entire poem is a metaphor for the frailty of human life along with it’s shortness along with the pain that comes from human bonds due to our frailty

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Oprah's Operatic One on One over One Overtly Objective Oration on One Originator of One Ominous Ordeal

6/3/2016

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Now we’ll have talked about the story, but why not about what the man did after writing his famous memoir. The famous writer of the memoir “Night” was found on the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about his experiences from the camps and it was divided into multiple parts

One of the biggest parts he talked about was that it was and is even more so nowadays impossible to be able to understand what the camps were like unless you were one of the ‘unclean’ people that was in them no matter how much you felt you did in your own mind
He also stated that after being in the concentration camps for so long, he did not feel any sadness at his father's death or cry at all and how he feels regret for that lack of feeling towards it.
On a non-memoir based side, Oprah also brought up the fact that more than 50% of teens have no idea what the holocaust actually is, which saddened Elie Wiesel
Elie also spent a very brief time talking about the “hierarchy of Auschwitz”
He also talked about how he felt it was not through God that he was on of the few survived as he ahd seen “people much more pious that I (Elie) die…” and he more believed that his survival was really an accident and he was not supposed to survive
He stated how hard it was for him to remember these event s and put them down in words because of how traumatic the experience was for him
He also at the end starts to talk about how the memories of Auschwitz will never leave him and he believes they will always be there to haunt him

It may not have been the funnest or most entertaining video in the world. But it truly was a rare and informative interview that really helps you understand the things behind what truly is the story of “Night,” and now to quote the title. I am done writing this up and I should go night, goodnight

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Night Part 1

6/2/2016

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Confusing Vocabulary:None

What Happened: You have the beginning of the story talking about the narrator’s life before the nazis came when the Elie was a talented jewish boy who was learning the Kabbalah under the tutelage of the town’s poor person, Moshie the Beadle, who was randomly taken by the hungarian police but managed to return and tell everyone about the horrors he witnessed and that the town needed to evacuate; but, no one believed him.Then the nazis came and poured the people into the ghettos and the part ends with them boarding the train to Auschwitz

Questions/Thoughts: I think that this story hits its stride when you take it less about the holocaust as much as you take it about an allegory for human cruelty and survival above all else, and as such this part sets it up for the fall, but is ultimately for the most part unnecessary from the main themes and could be trimmed down at least slightly.

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Alphadeath Soup

6/2/2016

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He said ‘I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever’ in the middle of part five of the memoir “Night”; however, he later at the very end of the part says that ‘the soup tasted of corpses.’Now the real question is what changed between the two times to change the taste of the soup so much. And I believe this can be answered very simply and tastefully.What happened was that the death soup happened after two certain events that can be connected to one thing, the death soup was right after he truly did lose his innocence from two things

The death of the child rebel right in front of him through hanging
His inevitable nihilistic conclusion that God does not exist, or if he did, he did not deserve to be loved or worshipped by anyone while putting his chosen people through the Holocaust

These two things are what caused the end of his innocence and his childhood,as therein he no longer saw anything that can be good, he only saw death and the evil inherent in all human beings

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9 Examples of Irony

6/1/2016

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Verbal Irony

Man throws another guy a ball who doesn't catch it. The thrower says ‘nice catch’
Teacher fails a student's test and writes ‘good job’ on it
A man tries to do a stunt and breaks his neck the person watching says ‘wow’

Situational Irony

A burglar's house is robbed
A man hit by a car is killed by being run over by an ambulence he called
A teacher critical of plaigarism ij any way is arrested for plagirizing his masters degree thesis

Dramatic Irony

The camera is pointed behind the character of a horror movie and we see the villian behind thw character that the character doesn't know about
You look up a movie on wikipedia and know a betrayl is going to happen before the characters do
You see a character rebelling in secret against one of the characters that the non rebelling character doesn't know about

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May 31st, 2016

5/31/2016

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Ah yes, gothic romance. A large oxymoron if I've ever heard one, but it doesn't actually mean it’s like fault in our stars in Victorian England. What it was was it was a part of the humanities movement known as ‘romanticism’ in the late 18th and early 19th centuries before being taken over by ‘realism’ (insert gagging noise of disapproval.) But I digress (man I love that phrase), gothic (no not those parent problems, pp which is ironically something that is also usually pretty much missing from the boys, boys and girls who put on too much makeup) is very much a setting and feeling which is very much involved in victorian esque industrialized cities with raining dreary grey atmospheres and the supernatural being abound along with strong themes of the supernatural (Dracula) and the consequences of man playing god (such as in Frankenstein) and healthy doses of hedonism
Now Romanticism is very much a different beast to tackle. Romanticism is a movement from the 18th and 19th centuries as stated previously, it is known for its use of its 5 ‘I’s which are

Idealism: The philosophy of optimism really
Imagination: Think the pen is mightier than the sword in these
Intuition: following your gut feeling will do you well in these stories
Innocence: Basically these writers believed that innocence was the greatest gift to mankind as it allowed us to see the more positive sides of the world
Inspired by Nature: These stories often have the case of being very reliant on nature of very focused on how wonderful nature is compared to the grime and filth of urban industrial cities
Individualism: Individualism is the belief that everyone is basically unique and special and will carve out their own special identity, this is probably one of the biggest driving forces of romantic literature

And I think that's a wrap for today folks, have a nice day

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Naturalism

5/24/2016

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Naturalism is realism taken to its natural and logical extremes. Realism was a radical change from the fantasy stories of the past with magic and religion coming together with the power of love and dreams along with the supernatural and mysticism of the early 1800’s with gothic romances such as Frankenstein or Dracula or Picture of Dorian Grey. It is taking everything only for its realistic and non-supernatural values. Realism is going through the lives of ordinary people with less of a focus on them, with them being more of the stepping stone of the reader to realize the beauty of nature and its descriptions.
Naturalism is this taken to its own logical conclusion. Naturalism is the combination of all of those along with the nihilistic feeling of human inferiority that came from the massive public realization that maybe we weren’t specifically made by a God, that maybe we did just fight nature and evolve into what we were and the insignificance that came along with it. Naturalism is realism but with the added description of human futility and the nihilistic lovecraftian sense that we can not control nature in any way and nature can be the most harmful thing to man.
That is the point of the famous naturalistic story “To Build a Fire” which talks about a man's journey through the cold and heartless Yukon territory. First, let us prove its tendencies of realism which it shows by its lack of description of the main character, known only as the man, with no description of his appearance or backstory other than he’s searching for gold and he is new and he chews tobacco. The next big indicator is that it scenery chews throughout the entire short story with parts such as “the Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was all pure white, rolling in gentle undulations where the ice-jams of the freeze-up had formed. North and south, as far as his eye could see, it was unbroken white, save for a dark hair-line that curved and twisted from around the spruce-covered island to the south, and that curved and twisted away into the north, where it disappeared behind another spruce-covered island.”
Now that we have the realism tendencies sorted out, let us go into the dark pessimism that drives it into naturalism; and that would be biggest about the fact that the man dies of frostbite, succumbing to the elements at the end. But the biggest part of that pessimism at the end is the fact that the dog, who has accompanied him loyally throughout the entire journey, after he died “turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where were the other food-providers and fire-providers,” showing the nature of the dog did not care for the amn specifically for any reason or even care for him. Which shows the lack of compasssion for humans by the elements and animals. Which is the central theme of Naturalism.

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Moshie the Beetle and on Willfull Ignorance

5/24/2016

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   So we are reading the famed holocaust memoir known only as “Night” and I came across a very interesting character by the name of Moshie the Beetle, he is a poverty stricken foreign jew who is expelled by the Hungarian Police only to find his way back to town and tell people that the men, women, and children were forced to dig their own graves and be shot in rows into said graves
   The tragic and memorable part about that character is that nobody believed him when he said all of the horrible things he saw and was disregarded because “the nazis wouldn’t come for them” and they were uncertain those things could actually happen, so he was disregarded and everyone ignored it, even Elie Wiesel, his student. So it became ironic and almost a callback to the provocative and famous poem “First They Came” as they soon became occupied by the German Reich.
   So the true point of Moshie’s story in this book is that even the jews were not wholly unresponsible for how they got captured, the jewish people had also forsaken the truth in order to live in a peaceful lie until it was shattered by the black and red eagles and symbols of Hitler’s totalitarian empire.
   And for the connection to the present, we can trace back to our own inability to follow the horrors of what actually happens and forcefully live in the fantasy world of optimism. We must learn from our mistakes and take on the true horrors of reality to progress forward as civilizations, and as a race.

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