In the celebrated poem by American author Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar,” we are driven to examine and understand the many symbolic connotations of “the jar” in its particular placement upon a hill; those of which may potentially coincide with the many interpretations of this world. While “the jar” represents many ideas corresponding to our paradigms of how we perceive our world, the most profound idea to me is the notion of emptiness which parallels the reality of emptiness in the prose
Standing at six foot one, and weighing three-hundred and twenty pounds, Malcom Reynolds is infamous for having won multiple weightlifting champions across the United States. At 14-years of age, after reining as champion in an international weightlifting competition in Iceland, Reynolds was declared “Strongest Youth in the Northern Hemisphere.” Looking at this man, most would not hesitate to assume that he fears nothing. But even as the gallant Bruce Wayne fears bats, the goliath Reynolds fears of
Do you remember in elementary school when you read Annabel Lee or The Raven? Remember how afterwards you and your friends would run around and say “Nevermore”? Even today when you see those lines you remember they day you were first introduced to Poe. This is a reality for most people. For some reason Edgar Allan Poe never leaves us. He stays with us for years upon years not only as individuals but as a society. Edgar Allan Poe’s influence can be seen throughout pop culture as well as other famous