Lennie wouldn’t be able to tend the rabbits--something George knows Lennie greatly values. In the ending scene when George finds Lennie and kills him, he repeats the dream they both long of having as he tells Lennie to face the trees and shoots. Even when put through this horrible scenar...
The idea expressed in this poem is thecommonplaceone that in human life riches, rank, success and fame are external things. Men will risk their lives in the search for them; yet once they have them within their grasp, the taste is no better than chewedtallow. But from ancient times till...
And spread their leafy banners to the skies.All–wise Almighty Providence we traceIn trees, and plants, and all the flow'ry race;As clear as in the nobler frame of man,All lovely copies of the Maker's plan.The pow'r the same that forms a ray of light,That call d creation from ...
A Funeral Poem on the Death of an Infant aged twelve Months To Captain H. D. of the 65th Regiment To the Right Hon. William, Earl of Dartmouth Ode to Neptune To a Lady on her coming to North America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health To a Lady on...
See how the trees Reach up and outward As if their entire existence Were an elegant gesture of prayer. See how they become the breath of spirit, In all its visible and invisible forms. See how the roots reach down and outward Embracing the physical, the body and bones Of its own soul ...
Every day I plant my seeds on twitter and see what trees will grow. When discussing the ongoing struggle against Time Warner and their child company DC Entertainment, particularly with regards to their campaign of exploitation against Alan Moore, I was chastised for framing the discussion in terms...
Aristotle’s conception of moral virtue Contemporary theories of moral virtue are heavily influenced by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 bce), who conceived of virtue as an excellence giving rise to actions that constitute a “golden mean” between deficiency and excess. For ...
exchange, Cynthia Robinson identified what she classed as a Castilian devotional pattern before the times of Isabel: a distaste for the explicit somatic detail of the Passion of Christ that was often camouflaged in metaphors of water, fire, fragrance and, crucially, trees (Robinson 2006 and 2013...