Compare And Contrast There Will Come Soft Rains

Naturalistic writers focus on extreme conditions that shape and govern human character. Jack London, a naturalistic writer, places men in such situations. These men do have their characters molded by nature, however, a majority of the time their deaths almost defeat the purpose. Naturalism spans from Darwin’s theory of evolution: “Survival of the fittest”, in that weaker parts of every species will eventually die off, like the ignorant men in these stories. This literary style within stories frequently depicts humans as objective and entitled when contrasted with nature.

“By the Waters of Babylon,” by Stephen Vincent Benet and “There Will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury are two short stories in which a similar message is spoken to the reader. Each author employs a secondary text to help convey his message, Benet using Psalm 137 from The Bible and Bradbury using Sara Teasdale’s poem, “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Each secondary text provides another look into the moral the author is trying to relay to his audience. Stephen Vincent Benet’s short story entitled “By the Waters of Babylon,” takes place in a post-apocalyptic society, where the ruins of the human world are known as the Dead Places, and only a select few venture into them, as it is forbidden. The protagonist of the story, John, journeys to the Dead Places to learn more about the mysteries surrounding them.

Everyone’s insults had such an effect on Matt that he considered himself to be an “animal” for the majority of the book and his life. Finally on page 245, Tam Lin reveals to Matt the truth that there is no difference between humans and clones. In the book, Tam Lin said that no one can tell the difference between humans and clones because there is no difference. He also said that clones being inferior are a lie. When Matt heard this, he couldn’t believe it because his whole life argued against it.

The poem “The Sirens” explores the whole theme of death and the men who can’t help but focus on their work. Atwood turns the theme of prerator on its head making the sirens call for help is similar to death.That’s some for thought that the next time you decide to take a cruise and spot a bird women perched delicately above an island of human skullsand large mountains. In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens, James William Waterhouse uses the Ulysses and the Sirens painting as being a dead song of death no one wants to hear to show that people can successfully deal with a threatening situation by focusing on their own work, while in his poem the “Siren Song”, Margaret Atwood uses the same scene to show that the power of making someone feel important can also cause them to be taken advantage of. In the poem “Siren Song”, Margaret Atwood uses detail, diction, and imagery to reveal how vulnerable the song makes people and how lonely the creatures singing the songs are. She shows how vulnerable the defenseless it makes people who hear the song in stanza two when she writes, “the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beaches skulls”.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” Batty pierces Deckard’s blind hopes by these sentences, transmitting to Deckard a massage that people’s lives are only “tears in rain.” This soliloquy reminds people of Nietzsche again: in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra speaks: “My death I praise to you, the free death which comes to me because I want it. And when shall I want it?

Since Odysseus was so intimidated by the Sirens causing his hubris to disappear. In the painting Ulysses and the Sirens, John William Waterhouse use the image of the sirens all in Ulysses and his men faces to show that no matter how intimidating a person feels about others bad intentions, people should just push through it and ignore it, while in her poem “Siren Song”’ Margaret Atwood uses the same scene to show how sometimes people make another person feel special for they can hoax someone into doing something. In the poem “Siren Song”, Margaret Atwood uses the tone of bitterness and scornfulness which demonstrates the idea that humans will do things if they feel special even if the task is dangerous. The poem displays a group of women with bird bodies, singing a beautiful song to a group of men on a boat to that “forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls” but it is also “the song nobody knows because anyone who has heard it is dead, and the

Am I right? Nobody protests about them, but on these worthless foxes. Poor fishes… Foxes on the other hand die as soon a hound bite the back of the neck; then shot. Negligible pain. Apparently it’s mediocre to wipe out the fishes since we consume them, but not foxes because we don’t consume them or use their

The author does this in (line 23) when she talks about how the mud spoils the working motors and crawls into the secret parts. This impacts the reader like imagery and gives them a picture and talking about how the mud ruined the engines of vehicles. Personification is also used in (line 18) talking about how mud wriggles its way into the battle. These are just a few of the literary devices May Borden used in her poems. The significance of the work is that the war is not as glamorous as everyone thought it was.

It was originally emphasized in visual arts, music and literature. It then placed a new emphasis on such emotions, horror and terror, this was achieved in confronting the new elements of impacting the feelings of the reader in subtle messages and beauty of nature take from a different perspective. An example of how certain elements are set out to impact the viewer, is a poem titled, “the ghost” by famous author Charles Baudelaire. He is considered one of the greatest 19th century poets. He believed that evil and had been overlooked as an expression of beauty and

On the surface, it could seem at first that we are born into a world blanketed with hopeless, moral fog, but throughout the fog, which is created by none other than the forces of conscience and emotion that pumps through our mortal bodies, are the wandering, searching souls of our innocence, praying to emerge unscathed, and our corruption preying on the previously named. Three characters in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” remarkably portray separate, yet very evident representations of the infamous mockingbird and contribute a view that maybe there are more mockingbirds then what is first assumed. These three characters: “Boo” Radley, Scout Finch, and Tom Robinson, resided in the slow, quaint, old town of Maycomb, County, Alabama. In

They do not care that they are wiping out a mountain, its trees that are hundreds of years old, bringing animals near extinction or extinct. They did not even care about their own kind being poisoned and dying. They were not even trouble by deaths caused to the people. At least not enough to stop. It does not affect they direct so they do not seem care.

The number of innocent victims killed by the bombing is alarming and Vonnegut keeping with his anti war theme made it a point to center his novel around the Dresden bombing which increased knowledge of what the historical city Dresden once was. Vonnegut wanted to “try to write my war story, whether it was interesting or not, and try to make something out of it.” Vonnegut wanted to make a significant point across about the horrors of the war stating several times he is currently writing an anti war novel(******). The main character Billy is broken from the war, which is clearly stated in (*******). Showing what Vonnegut went through through Billy described the Dresden bombing as the worst bombing and experience that any prisoner of war had

As evidence, in one of his poem he uses the word “flames” to indicate the harshness of life to the new world. He uses the all those elements to describe how bad things need to happen so things could get better for the new world, just like the Bible indicates. In addition, Bradford used the theme of history in most of his literature. Like in one of his poems named, “A Word to New Plymouth”. In some way

In this quote from Mrs. Bradstreet, she is showing that everything that is gone now, does not matter to her, all that matters is that god is still here, “There’s wealth enough, I need no more” (line 51). She doesn’t need anything when she has god. Mr. Edwards on the other hand, uses fear and doubt to guilt his listeners into becoming apart of the Puritan lifestyle when he says, “God has so many different ways of taking wicked men out of this world” (pg.120). In this quote from “Sinners in the Angry Hand of God” Mr. Edwards reminds his listeners that they could die any day due to their sins without god. Edwards has a common theme of bringing up constantly that god is holding them all over a giant pit that leads to hell, “Held in the hand of god, over the pit of hell.” (pg 126), and that if they chose to join the Puritans, they won’t be dropped in.

Contrary to other literary history works, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque Erich Maria is so unique because of the way it displays such a realistic view of war and the associated loss of humanity, innocence, and emotion that attend with it. Throughout this novel, Remarque proves his point that war is unnecessary, and dishonorable. Remarque’s focus is how one is changed and ruined after just a few nights in war, the effects of war, on everyone. The novel really emphasizes on the accumulating body count everyday, showing every aspect of how war is absolutely gruesome and such a waste of pure lives. Also, “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how the position of being in war can change a person dramatically preventing them from returning