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- 6191: Roman Religion
- ... over the doorways watched the entry and exit of every door in the house. Penates, god of the interior, protected accumulations of the family in its storerooms, cupboards, and barns. The father and mother, the child was taught, are the embodimentof Genius and Juno, respectively. Both had to be treated and nourished divinely. Hung on the walls were death masks of the Di Manes, warning him to stick to tradition. Other ...
- 6192: Hinduism
- ... it. In the process he emerges as a great teacher who reveals the Bhagavadgita, the most important religious text of Hinduism. In the further development of the Krishna myth, it is found that as a child, Krishna was full of boyish pranks and well known for his predilection for milk and butter. He would raid the dairies of the gopies (milkmaids) to steal fruit, milk, and butter, and would accuse others ...
- 6193: Liberty in the Gospel: Galations 5:1-12
- ... male's foreskin. The Hebrews circumcised infants and a sign of their responsibility to server God as His special holy people in the midst of this unclean world. God instructed Abraham to circumcise every male child in his household, including servants, (Gen. 17:11) as a visible physical sign of a covenant between the Lord and His people. The Hebrew people came to take great pride in circumcision. In fact, it ...
- 6194: Brief history of Buddhism
- ... is dominant in India, Tibet, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Siddhartha Guatama was born in Kapilivastu. His father was the ruler of the small kingdom near the Indian/Nepal border. As a child, his future was foretold by sages. They believed that he would someday be a fellow sage or leader of a great empire. He led a very pampered and sheltered life until the age of twenty ...
- 6195: The Effect of Poetry
- ... this song in remembrance of her infant niece. She had no children of her own at the time and was very close to her niece, who died SIDS, and she expresses her feelings for the child very eloquently in the song. In the song, she gives her niece permission to stop fighting and to fly above the clouds on an endless journey of happiness. A friend of mine introduced me to ...
- 6196: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety"
- ... future experiences (Nelson 118-119). The first age begins with Malin asking the reader to "Behold the infant" as though he is observing us as the infant while his own infancy fails to exist. The child is "helpless in cradle and / Righteous still" but already has a "Dread in his dreams." By this, Auden means that even when we are most innocent, we are still imperfect (Nelson 119). The second age ...
- 6197: To Autumn by John Keats
- ... time. In the first line of his opening question, the tone is familiar and affectionate (line 12). The second line in this stanza, “Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find” reminds me of saying to a child, “if you look carefully, you’ll see fairies.” And the season is found personified and “Thee sitting careless” (line 14) From the next line the language catches the gesture and enacts it: the faint breeze ...
- 6198: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped and died, Do not weep. War is kind This is a very poignant part of his work. I could ask the question, "Is the poet speaking about a real child of this soldier or perhaps referring to the unborn children of the thousands of soldiers that have died in all the worlds conflicts?" His description of the soldier's death is proper and extremely vivid ...
- 6199: The Works of Edwin Robinson and Paul Simon
- ... 6 and 7, "...And I curse the life I'm living, And I curse my poverty..." Robinson conveys the same idea when he writes the following in lines 1, 2, 3, and 4, "Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons: He wept that he was ever born and he had reasons." Both Simon and Robinson had unattainable dreams. This can be proven by the following quotes ...
- 6200: Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
- ... come in the poems she would begin writing early in 1961. She and Hughes settled for awhile in an English country village in Devon, but less than two years after the birth of their first child the marriage broke apart. Plath's journals were a way for her to explore some of the internal and external restrictions in meeting her goals. Sometimes she focuses on the fact of being female as ...
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