One of the best-known Old English poems, “The Seafarer,” is written in an elegiac mood. It somberly laments the speaker’s misery and finally offers consolation for his sorrows. Like other Old English elegies, including “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament,”“The Seafarer” uses ...
Brady searches for meaning in his rodeo-set accident, one that seems mostly random, but unable to compete and reticent to get literally back on the horse, Brady’s life chugs along at a muted pace. Who is Brady Blackburn without rodeo? Who is a cowboy without his horse? These massive...
One of the best-known Old English poems, “The Seafarer,” is written in an elegiac mood. It somberly laments the speaker’s misery and finally offers consolation for his sorrows. Like other Old English elegies, including “The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament,”“The Seafarer” uses ...
Mood: The mood of a literary work is the emotional quality of its writing style. Some works are sad or elegiac, while others are more joyful. Works can be mysterious, tense, fast-paced, or pensive. Answer and Explanation: The mood ofThe Time Machineis full of curiosity and earnest explan...
It’s no coincidence that Mann’s solo debut Whatever—recorded independently with producer Jon Brion after a three-year stand-off with Epic—encapsulated all the shades of meaning derived from the word it was named after. Marrying wry and melancholic narratives that grappled with disappointment ...
situation. A picture of spiritual emptiness is presented with the reproduction of a contemporary pub conversation between two cockney women. The discussion is constantly interrupted by the pub keeper’s "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME." Section III, "The Fire Sermon," expresses a painfully elegiac feeli...
I could callfaithmy most precious possession, for without it I would be hopelessly adrift in a sea of unmeaning. But faith is a communal possession. It is not distinctively mine. Faith isplural, shared and nourished within the collectivity of God’s friends. If I am to speak in the sing...
Sense and Place. London: Routledge, 1994). Guided by three key concepts—memory, travelling, and touch—this volume encourages a reappraisal of traditional modes of reading the Gothic by redrawing its scope, retracing its origins, and refocusing attention on surfaces as sites of meaning. In urgin...
as she finds human connection. at the heart of the story is eleanor coming to terms with the reality of her relationship with her mother. while the recollection of her past is painful at times, the overall mood of the book is light and funny. eleanor’s pitiful, yet wildly entertaining,...
In the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt, tendencies toward narrative sequences, especially scenes of war, hunting, and fishing, were accompanied by a growing conception of nature as a field of action. Landscapes often retained a mythological meaning, while in general becoming more specific...