The poem associates deep wells with profound, awe-inspiring mystery and hints that such mystery is part of normal life. The speaker compares the water in wells to "A neighbor from another world," as if, by digging into the earth, humans tap into something otherworldly. The speaker also note...
Discrepancies over the precise age of the Moon, varying from 4.425 billion to just over 4.5 billion years ago, suggest there could still be some wiggle room for an alternative explanation. One is that it formed from the vaporised remains of yet another young world - a ring of debris called...
“I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; ... But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you,let him ...
The image of Fudō Myō-ō, “Unmovable Wisdom King,” the main deity of the temple, is historically significant in that Kobo Daishi (or Kukai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism) is said to have carved, consecrated and conducted a Goma ritual before this very statue in 810, by order of ...
The alternative, for those who are always asking about alternatives, as if we were replacing one totalitarian government with another, is always the ballot box. What’s more important, and what is true in any region in the Arab World, is that foreign intervention is a small detail in the ...
Voyage in France by a Frenchman by Paul Verlaine (Voyage en France par un Français) was written in 1881, but only published posthumously for the first time in 1907. From the preface by Louis Loviot: “Voyage in France by a Frenchman has remained unknown to Verlaine biographers; the ...
Another important influence on Mill's life was his wife, Harriet Taylor, who he married in 1830. The pair worked so closely together on his writings that he is said to have considered her the co-author of many of his works.3 Mill worked for many years for the powerful East India Compan...
throughout his life, and was published posthumously by his son and literary executor. This is the story that undergirds and entwines all his other works of Middle-earth. It’s the grand mythology he set out to create for and dedicate to England. It is his magnum opus, and it is ...
for …,for…, for…then you have no business being in college. (Para.9) Metonymy换喻 A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. 用某一事物的名称代替另外一个与它关系 密切的事物的名称,只要一提到其中一种 事物,就会使...
Brandi also divulged that her father's death was not the only loss she had suffered in 2020. A short period of time before sharing her dad's commemoration post, she had posthumously honored another loved one. A deeply sorrowful Brandi implored the year to stop robbing her of those near and...