Ballade Of Worldly Wealth

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

In “On the Want of Money”, a 19th century text, William Hazzlit presents a strong position on the role of currency in society and the ironic relationship between man and his status through use of rhetoric; such as but not limited to syntax, repetition, and imagery. In doing so, Hazzlit strengthens his argument and gives more weight to his claims that support the idea that in possession of money and lack thereof man is miserable in his ways. Ownership leaves man alienated from friends and family, to be commemorated by a lonely, seldom frequented monument of massive proportions. Austerity dictates lives, limiting those in pursuit of wealth to a constant, consuming search. In summation, the concept of money is hopeless

William Hazlitt, in his essay about money, expresses his ideas about wealth while utilizing parallel structure and polysyndetons to demonstrate how striving for wealth contributes to a lower quality of life and afterlife.

The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie was written in 1889. In Carnegie’s article, he initially discusses how wealth plays a role in the ties of the rich and the poor. He says that they live in a world where money was either passed down from father to son or given to the state. Carnegie’s ideas at the time were considered new. In his point of view, wealth can be put into better use by society than the state. He further expresses his idea that the rich should undertake in the concern for human welfare and advancement. Carnegie also emphasizes his contempt for the idea of spending capital with lack of responsibility. The wealthy should distribute their wealth that doesn’t encourage anything similar to sloth or drunkenness.

Money— sweeter than honey but oh so destructive. It facilitates a man’s life, while a lack of it imprisons him in the streets of penury. It raises his social status, while an absence of it leaves him unnoticed. It gives him an aura of superiority and importance among others, while a deficiency of it makes him worthless in society’s eyes. Considering these two roads, most do not take more than a second to decide to chase riches.

In his article “Wealth”, Andrew Carnegie argues for the wealth to give back their wealth to the community by providing “public institutions of various kinds … [to] improve the general condition of the people” (Foner 30). Carnegie uses this article to promote his Gospel of Wealth idea and provide his interpretation of the changing America. Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth stated that “those who accumulated money had an obligation to use it to promote the advancement of society” (Foner 28). Carnegie’s articles focuses on the themes of Capitalism and Inequality, which continue to shape society.

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Melville questions the efficiency of property ownership in terms of wealth. Through the actions of the lawyer and the scrivener, Bartleby, Melville portrays two contrary views concerning the importance of money in society. Meanwhile, the lawyer resolutely considers money as a commodity, assigning all materialistic items a dollar value. Bartleby indirectly implies his belief that money purposely acting as a concept openly disregarding and opposing its value and significance in society.

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than

To better understand this poem some history about London during the time the poem was written is helpful. London was the “. . . undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center” of England in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. It was a city of “warehouses, docks, factories, prisons,

“The Fall Of The House Of Usher” is a suspense, novel written by the famous dark romantic “Edgar Allen Poe”. Poe is a master at making the creepy, even more horrifying by using specific tone. His tone is is the idea of prevailing darkness and pure gloom. Just about everything in this story is draped in darkness to add to his sinister plot. And at no point is there a happy feeling, the plot just keeps dragging the character into a deeper pit of despair.

The poem begins with two lines which are repeated throughout the poem which convey what the narrator is thinking, they represent the voice in

This captures the frustration and the regret of having to deal with the situation in a Jeckle and Hyde sort of way, in that person one is very calm and although frustrated manages to turn to religion for help whereas in the second part of the poem they rebel against religion and it’s teachings and have corrupt thoughts and feelings.

part of the answer to this problem is to put prisoners to work. It makes no sense to deprive inmates of work, especially since they owe serious debts to others, including times, "outmates" and taxpayers. Yet our jails and prisons do little or nothing to provide productive work opportunities. Once upon a time, the common wisdom was that prisoners should work but now it's mostly banned. Opponents claim that it's unfair

Executions have been a method of punishment for many years, yet the different types of executions have advanced in technology over the years. Every state has a different way of executing criminals. For example, Texas follows out the execution plan by conducting death by lethal injection. Our state law allows a jury to vote for “death by lethal injection” for convicted criminals, and I would vote to change this law.