Remembering the End Exercise
The personification of death in the contemp0lorary world occurs as a cultural icon and a popular aspect of cartoons for the last 80 years. The grim reaper serves as the symbol of death, which has continuously appeared on during different times, such as late-night television, early morning cartoons, and movies. These various Media depict the grim reaper as the creature that goes to collect what belongs to it. For example, the great reaper would go to collect as a soul that belongs to it. Yet, the grim reaper always prevails as the butt of the joke in these movies, cartoons, and late-night television. The personification of death in the contemporary word communicates a complicated, scary, or mysterious idea from this world. The reaper shows no difference to the aspects of life that the human being fears. Besides, the grim reaper exists as a reflection of the world he emanates. The grim reaper symbolizes the deadliest events in the life of the human being. It represents the Black Plague, which killed hundreds of people in England. From, the occurrences of the plague, which saw bodies lie around uncorrected, serves as a moral assurance that death is fair. Death comes knocking at everyone’s door despite the social strata or position. The grim reaper reminds the human population of the existence of death in the world.
Journal Assignment
- The sonnet revolves around the idea of personifying death, thus demystifying it. The sonnet illustrates the fear of death in the society erected around the notion of mystery. However, Donne breaks down the veil and depicts death as a sympathetic character. Donne brings death as not dreadful or mighty. As a result, people should never forget about death, always remember it!
- Donne, in the Holy sonnet 10, addresses death as the primary audience. Donne further personifies death through traits such as mysterious, scary, and complicated. Death has the tendency to take anyone in society despite his or her social class. Any person who considers the mystery of death exists as the speaker in the sonnet. The nature of death ends worldly suffering for the good souls while offering a path to heaven eternity.
- The speaker directly personifies and addresses death. The speaker asks death no to show arrogance from people’s scary and intimidating reaction towards it. The speaker compares death with sleep and rest, which exist as images of death, yet more pleasurable than the two activities. Besides, the good people go to die sooner from the acts of desperate rulers, which indicate entry to the body’s eternal resting and arrival to the afterlife soul.
- The beginning eight lines and the last six lines exist as two different sets, which indicate various rhyme schemes that focus on different aspects. The eight lines address the appearance and actual existence of death with reasons why not to fear it. Instead, Human beings should welcome death. The last six lines discuss the things human beings should worry about. The speaker symbolizes death as a creature that no human should fear but welcome.
- Some of the vocabularies applied include proud, mighty, and dreadful. The poet uses ‘proud’ while appealing to death’s nature, not to show ‘mightiness’ and ‘dreadfulness’ on human beings. The vocabularies set the personification of death, which creates the mood of the poem yet; it enables the speaker to illustrate the perceived notion of dying with how to change it.
Discussion 11 Assignment
Latin philosophers, such as Donne, conducted a breakdown on the human life experiences of life and death into two main categories: Carpe Diem, which means “seize the moment” and Memento Mori, which translates to, “remember that you have to die.” The two aspects of life exist as two fundamentals of renaissance poetry. These two formulas exist as imperatives, which imply the truth attached to them. Carpe Diem encourages people to live to their best and fullest. In addition, human beings should enjoy while still young, for they do not know about tomorrow’s shortcomings. These poems deal with the projected limitations of life, such as light and darkness, and life and death, rather than Memento Mori, which deals with the limit itself. The Memento Mori poems, such as the Holy Sonnet 10, personify death. The speaker pleads with death not to show its scary and intimidating reactions to Human existence. Yet, the speaker asks the human population to remember that death exists and embrace it.
The theme of time exists as the main addressed issue by the two categories of the renaissance period. These two kinds of poems result in concise yet intensified answers in the battle with the evil nature of time. The deepness occurs as the poems illustrate apparent contradictory nature, which has its basis on the theory of time limit. The Carpe Diem has a present affiliation while it implies a limit towards the future – encouraging an individual to enjoy the present moment. On the other hand, Memento Mori has more association with the future, which implies a limit of the present. Besides, they can evoke the vanity of life or, notably, the pride of death. Yet, these two formulas prevail in a continuum. The two forms of poetry present the future as the real evil in the life of Human beings. The human population has to acknowledge the future as an aspect one should develop awareness towards, to get a clear meaning and theory.
Yet, the classic element in these two poems goes back to address the present moment, and the human existence. The two poems depict the current moment of human beings as the only, real, and decisive moment of human beings’ life. The lyrics bring out the future as the tense, which abolishes limits due to its virtue existence, the notion of illusion that lacks boundaries. These two formulas evolved and adopted various perspectives, notably, religions. The two poems, Carpe Diem and Memento Mori show a substantial impact on religion and other social aspects of the human population. The Carpe Diem shows a more affiliation towards the secular human life while the Memento Mori has depth in the religious aspect. However, the two formulas of classical poetry remain the foundation of philosophy and lyrics of the contemporary world. Human beings should enjoy their young moments in life as the future holds uncertainties and shortcomings, which no one could tell or illustrate for human beings. On the other hand, the human population must remember and acknowledge the presence of death. The human beings should live in the preparedness of death despite its mystery.