... Cummings shows nature as being >superior and criticizes the way societies relgions, philosophers and the >thumb of science has 'squeezed, pinched, poked and prodded" the earth............ The poet uses personification when describing the fingers of philophers, thumb of science and knees of religions. This technique despicts the human race slowly destoying the earth with their body. Cumming 's critisizes humans and ... Western society, marked by >its organizational systems, social codes, and rhetoric of war-heroism, >Cummings turned to nature as did the Romantics in the nineteenth century....

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• Grade Level: High School

... system of moral principles and values " applicable through actions perpetrated by humans. However, absolute standards are unobtainable and conditional upon the society and time in which they are conceived. Another definition suggests that to be ethical is "to conform to accepted standards consistent with the agreed principles of correct moral conduct". Conversely, until Aristotle, there were no "agreed principles ... a persuasive argument detailing the gods as being purely a psychological invention, further upheld in the Iliad by the constant intervention by the gods of placing ideas and ...

• Word Count: 1739
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... system of moral principles and values " applicable through actions perpetrated by humans. However, absolute standards are unobtainable and conditional upon the society and time in which they are conceived. Another definition suggests that to be ethical is "to conform to accepted standards consistent with the agreed principles of correct moral conduct". Conversely, until Aristotle, there were no "agreed principles ... a persuasive argument detailing the gods as being purely a psychological invention, further upheld in the Iliad by the constant intervention by the gods of placing ideas and ...

• Word Count: 1739
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate