1. A Prayer in Spring
Reading this poem brings with it many emotions. The strongest I found was a sense of melancholy, sadness and loneliness, which in turn is the theme I found most obvious. With these emotions came a sense of beauty. Lines 13-14 of the poem read "With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note ...
Yes, it is very much the function of arts to dwell on the otherwise hidden aspects of human nature, Our instinctive urge for rhythm, right since the dawn of civilization, is so obvious that we take it for granted rarely claiming it to be a special talent. ...
Each orisha has its own drum rhythm, song, and dance step. ... "The herbs come to form a sacred way of classifying all of Yoruba experience, a kind of grammar of Yoruba religion that aligns the ashe of each orisha with its dances, prayer songs, drum rhythms, and icons."" ...
In William Blake's Songs of Innocence, the poems written consist of joyful and sweet song-like lyrics creating images of childhood in a natural and happy setting. The children in these poems are young, innocent and unaware of the harsh realities of life. In a few of the songs, especially in The Chim...
The Force of Tradition Tradition is an act, an activity, a feeling, or a way of thinking that has been forced into existence by repetition; without a strong effort towards repetition tradition cannot exist. Tradition is not something that arrives free of creation; tradition must be molded and...
The simple rhymes and the regular rhythm stress the simple ideas that are implied, but "though many believe that Blake's poems are written in a simple language, no one can deny the presence of deep meaning" (Pakzadian and Moinzadeh 114 ). ...
CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). Slave owners forced them to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity. ...
Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...
