... be understood in its own terms, as an emotional strategy for enriching our world (Solomon 141). Love is the expression of an ancient need, that human desire was originally one and we were whole, and the desire and the pursuit of the whole is called love. -Plato (Solomon 62). Who and how we love ultimately determines who we are (Solomon 24). Plato ... my missing piece, my soulmate. I may try several pieces that don't quite fit around the edges, but eventually when I do find it, I will know. And when I die, whether I am thirty or eighty-five, I will die complete, knowing that I loved and ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Larkin is cynical towards the world in which consumerism has replaced religion. Although Larkin was an Agnostic, describing religion as "the moth-eaten musical brocade created to pretend we never die", the persona in "Church going" has taken time to visit the church and Larkin seems to be well acquainted with the religious terms of the various furniture within it, suggesting ... exploitation of the female "universal symbol of happiness". "The large cool store" is based on a visit to a marks and spencers store with Maeve Brennan. The poem focuses particularly on the desire that consumeri...

• Word Count: 754
• Approx Pages: 3

... course. In "The Brown Wasps", Loren gives wasp some symbolic meanings, and compare human beings including himself with the wasp. "Like the brown wasp, he will have his wish to die in the great droning center of the hive rather than in some lonely room." (P. 130) "Prematurely I am one of the brown wasps and I often sit with them in the great ... them. In his eyes, they are not animals but human beings. He talks to them in his heart and shares the same desire for a "home" with them. He also tries to influence his readers with the same thing. Sometimes their desire is so eager that he can ...

• Word Count: 987
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies . . . " John's perseverance shows his attempt to redeem himself for his sin and his desire to make right the troubles his mistake brought upon him. Because of John's inability to control his desire and resist temptation, his life is being turned upside down by Abigail's obsession with him and her need to seek revenge on ... want to live a lie. As Reverend Parris and Hale are about to object, John pronounces, ". . . for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor . . . " He would rather die for the greater good, his own probi...

• Word Count: 941
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School