In literature, artistic merit is distinguished between “sentiment” and “sentimentality.” The word “sentiment” refers to the emotional import of a passage as distinguished by chosen words. Determining the sentiment in a poem enables us to understand its tone. Excessive sentiment is “sentimental,” a negative term in literary analysis. By referencing the excessiveness, the speaker shouldn’t ...
Real people admit their flaws Fake people deny their flaws Real people act like people Fake people act in human Real people write songs from the heart Fake people write songs to make money (most of which are artificial & have absolutely no meaning) Real people apologize for their faults Fake people never apologize. They ...
APPARITIONS The term apparition is used for any kind of visual, paranormal related manifestation. The key word to remember is visual. A ghost can take the form of an apparition, like an orb or human figure that you can see. However, not all paranormal visualizations are ghosts. They can be in the form of trains, ...
Love I question the existence of this abstract emotion In fact what is love but a set of vulnerabilities that blind you from reality The reality of realizing that it’s merely a tool to gain control See love results in the embarrassment of believing in a fantasy, It’s merely a dream a mere infatuation more ...
Fit Fun Fabulously Funky Father Fearlessly Faces Forty! (how’s that for an alliteration?) (bonus if you can say it five times fast) Forty = Fun I have been so excited about turning 40 years old this year. For some people turning 40 is something to dread, me I welcome it with arms extended with a ...
Over a quarter of the planet will be preparing themselves for the wonderful month of Ramadan. Muslims from all over the world will wait with anticipation for the spotting of the crescent moon to mark the beginning of a joyous month of fasting, the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim ...
In “Lady Lazarus,” Plath confesses her several attempts to commit suicide. In the second stanza, it seems like she kills herself and comes back to life–she can’t explain how she’s still alive, “A sort of walking miracle.” Plath mentions her fight against life, she calls life her enemy, “O my enemy” something that won’t let ...
Anybody who has ever read Lewis Carroll knows something about nonsense poetry. His poem entitled “Jabberwocky” is found in Through the Looking-Glass; the verse is both funny and frustrating in its nonsensical content. The beauty in nonsense seems to be that it defies the notion that everything we read and/or say must make sense. Rather ...
What Christian mother wouldn’t love to see a Bible verse on her Mother’s Day card? I know that I, as a mom of ten children, would enjoy seeing any one of the following verses embellishing the front of my Mother’s Day card. I’ve even made suggestions for what I’d like to see on the inside ...
One of the best parts about living in the South is the birds migrate here each winter. I woke up the other morning to a tap-tap-tap. Looking out my window, there were a multitude of robins and the most spectacular red-headed woodpecker I ever saw up close. The red-headed woodpecker, with its show of vivid ...
