A Dialogue Between The Soul And The Body

In the Myth of the Soul, Darrow argues against different conceptions of immortality. One of the arguments that he presents to us is that we have a soul that can survive our death. Darrow argues that there is no evidence for the existence of the soul and questions where the soul stays within our body and when it enters our body. His arguments are to be further evaluated for its strengths and weaknesses as he tries to counter a belief with a long history particularly, in religion.

The poet uses many metaphors, repetition and morbid diction to illicit the response I had to this poem. Firstly, Butson compared the emotions and internal struggles of a

A second way the theme of this poem can be seen is through imagery.  The first glimpse of this is in stanza one:  Cullen writes, “Pierce to the marrow…and past the bone.”  This passage provokes feelings/images of pain in our minds, addressing the same pain one feels when shunned in the world, whether on the basis of appearance, gender, nationality, etc.  This describes the part of the theme that says people must care for each other.  When pain pierces one’s heart, Cullen proposes that these feelings must “Be fused and mingle, diverse yet single,” with others’, as he states in the second stanza.  His meaning is that individuality is good but people must help each other; this is the path to an equal society where all are accepted.  A final example of imagery is the “shining and unsheathed” description of a blade in the last stanza.  Cullen wants the reader to perceive grief as dangerous and ready to strike.  Along with reiterating the fact that all humans must help one another, Cullen now states an ultimatum:  either society works to eliminate grief, or they can never be truly content with their lives.  The “sword” of grief will come down on the public if they cannot coexist.  The unique characteristics of each human being must be cherished and respected, not rejected and ridiculed.

mind. It suggest the poet see it as love or nothing and that he was

Prompt: In a brief essay, identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem.

The author persuades people to use their head before just using the words heart or love to give the word its true meaning. Carruth also displays what happens to words when they tend to be misused which is that they usually lose their value over time if they are not of great importance. Through his writing style in the poem, Carruth shows how people freely use the word “heart” and how it affects the meaning of the word. He opens and closes the poem with a question, refers to the heart as 'it' in the first stanza, and shows uncertainty of the importance of the heart in the first stanza as well.

life: seeing the world in relationship to oneself alone, versus viewing the world as an aggregate.

This internal war starts the second that you set foot in this unknown word as a baby, all the way up to the last step you take to say your last goodbyes to this world. The poem begins with a life of a child in whom people around him tended to call the child “...crybaby or poor or fatty or crazy and made [the child] an alien…”(Sexton), and the child “...drank their acid and concealed it.”(Sexton) illustrating how painful it is, not react and take actions,but counseling is the best method the child seemed fit. Furthermore, courage in a person can also cause a war, in which the author shows the imagery, how the child’s “...courage was a small coal that [the child] kept swallowing.”(Sexton) and encouraging to society to make his own future. As an adult, the person endured many difficulties, such as the of enduring “...a great despair…”(Sexton), but you didn’t do it with a companion but rather “...did it alone.”(Sexton) and endured that suffering within yourself. Being an adult is not only passing a time with your loved ones and remembering the ones that sacrificed their time to make you who you are now, from your teachers to your peers to your parents, but to actually live your life the fullest and make each day worth living.Until the last moment that has been waiting since the beginning in which the death “...opens the back door...” and “...[the adult will] put on [his] carpet slippers and stride out.”(Sexton), exemplifying how all you have done, from engulfing the pain given by the society to living your whole life just to see a tear of happiness from seeing your grandchild, will not be taken with you at the moment when you really need it the

“since feeling is first” can be defined literally and figuratively. The poem literally talks about a man who is deeply in love. An example would be stanza 1, where the man is trying to show how much he loves his women by telling her that feelings come first and if someone were to pay attention to trivial things then the feelings are not considered to be something deep. On the other hand, the poem figuratively talks about life being sensible if we were to go with the flow, and not thinking about reasons for everything that’s happening in life. For instance ; stanza 1, emphasizes how a person should consider his feelings first to entirely live his life. If he pays attention to minute details in life he may leave a major part in life. If you want to make sense of everything you do, you will fail to understand the true meaning of it. It also compares our life to a paragraph (line 15). In paragraph the ideas should be coherent, but in life there is no logical order. Sometimes lines can overlap in life. The same thing can be repeated over again. The last line “And death i think is no parenthesis”, tells us that death is not an interruption. In paragraphs, parenthesis are interruptions that come in between but in life the only parenthesis is death and it’s a full stop. Death is final and we can’t refrain from death.

In the Sixth Meditation, Descartes continues with his discussion about the mind-body problem by addressing the relationship between the mind and body. Descartes states that Anature ...teaches me by these feelings of pain, hunger, thirst, and so on that I am not only residing in my body, as a pilot in his ship, but furthermore, that I am intimately connected with it...@(Descartes 76). This relationship is the connection between the physical needs of the body and the mental acknowledgment of those needs. Although the mind and body are blended, the mind is the most essential.

The last line in the poem “and since they were not the ones dead, turned to their own affairs” lacks the emotions the reader would expect a person to feel after a death of a close family member. But instead, it carries a neutral tone which implies that death doesn’t even matter anymore because it happened too often that the value of life became really low, these people are too poor so in order to survive, they must move on so that their lives can continue. A horrible sensory image was presented in the poem when the “saw leaped out at the boy’s hand” and is continued throughout the poem when “the boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh…the hand was gone already…and that ended it”, this shows emphasis to the numbness the child felt. The poem continues with the same cold tone without any expression of emotion or feelings included except for pain, which emphasizes the lack of sympathy given. Not only did the death of this child placed no effect on anyone in the society but he was also immediately forgotten as he has left nothing special enough behind for people to remember him, so “since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”. This proves that life still carries on the same way whether he is present or not, as he is insignificant and that his death

of her dead husband’ in a secret drawer in the wardrobe (ch. 2). Is the

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.

Some would choose to declare that every human being is both a body and a mind. Both being gelled together until death, than having the mind go on to exist and the body being lifeless. A person lives throughout two collateral histories, one having to do with what happens to the body and in it, and the other being what happens in and to the mind. What happens to the body is public and what happens to the mind is private. The events which reply to the body consist of the physical world, and the events of the mind consist of the mental world.

The human body is a temple of the soul, the human soul is temple of God. The human soul has no significance unless it is inhibited of “filled” by the Supreme. Birth and death are but the filling and emptying of the soul by the Supreme, and the individual, insignificant as he may seem to be, in this way partakes of God's endless life, His immortality. Hence sings Tagore: