Evanescence, a gothic-rock band originating from Little Rock, Arkansas shows that in the deepest, most private recesses of our minds, a sinister beauty elegantly glides among the darkness of our most horrifying nightmares. By drawing upon the intense pain of tragedy and loss in her life, lead singer Amy Lynn Hartzler (formerly known as Amy Lynn Lee) effortlessly creates a shoot of morbid curiosity in the minds of her aficionados that quickly blossoms into a majestic stream of flowing lyrics. For
Performance art can simply be described as the type of art presented to live audience (Irvin, 2016). The performance can either be carefully orchestrated or random; scripted or unscripted; carefully planned sometimes with or without audience participation or otherwise spontaneous. In addition, the performance can either be via the media or live; sometimes the performer is present while other times the performer may be absent. In general, performance art encompasses four basic elements: the body of
A Study of Hello, All About Eve; Scarlet and Joy Division; and The Eternal Introduction I have chosen to study Evanescence – Hello, All About Eve – Scarlet and Joy Division – The Eternal. These pieces are all from the gothic genre yet each has individual features that make them very different from each other. This can provoke people into believing that they lie more comfortably into a sub-genre, for example; gothic rock, gothic folk etc. The main features of gothic music are hard to pinpoint
allow you to make a wish. As a child, people have all kinds of dreams and wishes. For some reason when we become adults some people stop dreaming and wishing and we’re forced to deal with the “real world”. “Fern Hill” is a poem that discusses the evanescence of life. Thomas describes his experience living on his Aunt's farm, Fern Hill, in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The beginning of the poem has a cheerful, serene tone, using images such as "fields high as the house" and "spellbound horses walking" to describe
Frank Herbert understood that thinking about one’s mortality “is to know the beginning of terror,” but knowing that one is mortal “is to know the end of terror.” Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, weaves the tale of “a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery” (Zusak 5). This fictional account of World War Two illustrates the importance of words, bravery, and love. Moreover, it divulges the truth behind life: death. In The
In the note “Evils Imminent,” Erik Larson writes “Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow” [xi]. The purpose of this novel is to compare and contrast the book's main characters, Daniel Burnham and Henry H. Holmes. The characters have contrasting personalities and feelings, but a few similar motives to a certain extent. Daniel Burnham
Veronica Roth was born in New York City on August 19th, 1988 and is the youngest of two other siblings. They all were raised in Barrington, Illinois where she went to High School. After she graduated, she went to Carleton College, then transferred to Northwestern University. She later married Nelson Fitch in 2011 to present day. Some of the activities that she likes are: cooking, psychology, biology, theology, fashion, contemporary art, and poetry. Roth is known as an American novelist and short-story
country in the world, may live on a day-to-day basis, and so simple ... ... middle of paper ... ...ulous, and yet increasingly, people are trying to artificially prolong and create that fleeting feeling, failing to recognize that it is its evanescence that makes it so invigorating. Both Schumaker and Bradbury attempt to convince of this, arguing that it is truly the journey and not final destination that matters. We must live by the principle of jumping off a cliff and building our wings on the
An early scene in George Roy Hill’s film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) shows illustrious bandit Butch Cassidy walking into a bank and observing a series of security upgrades (e.g. an alarm system, a safe, and several different locks). As Butch Cassidy exits the establishment, he asks the security guard, “What happened to the old bank?” The guard responds, “People kept robbing it.” Butch remarks, “Small price to pay for beauty.” Although Butch Cassidy’s disappointed assertion may have
solved with more lies. Once Hamlet discovered the truth, the King used deception on Laertes in order to kill Hamlet and together they formed a plan. The king did this to keep power, and Laertes agreed in order to avenge his sister’s death. The evanescence of the plan was apparent when everything went wrong and both Laertes and the King die, “I am justly killed with my own treachery” (Shakespeare 5.2.337). Similarly, Polonius is killed by his avaricious ambition to gain power and become closer with
boundaries for art which I believe also provide a broad enough definition to avoid stricture. To conclude with a quote from Longfellow’s poem “A Psalm of Life” seems appropriate as it further elaborates the idea that art outlasts human existential evanescence, thereby proving that humanity is capable of transcendent acts of expression, for “Art is long, and Time is fleeting, / And our hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums are beating / Funeral marches to the grave.” From the mysterious
“Everyone/Thinks that we’re perfect/Please don’t let them see through the curtains.” These may just be song lyrics from Melanie Martinez’s song “Dollhouse”, but they speak of a conglomeration of ideas. They represent the fact that many people have internal conflicts, and that not all people with minds that are socially or medically considered “functioning” can act in a normal way. The narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart”, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is a suitable example of one of those people
stations that would provide people comfort before or after a journey; such centers would be prime examples of modernity taking hold in society. Railroad stations were designed with glass and steel dominating the architecture as a way to create evanescence and light space; such large glass structures were abstract and so the people would become detached from a stable environment, a stability that before was prevalent with stone
The Hero: "Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked." Beowulf In literature the P.O.V. is usually through the Hero. The hero longs for an ordinary life with their loved ones, but early in the story that opportunity is ripped away from them. Heroes are focused, determined, disciplined, courageous, and hard headed. The heroes biggest fear is to lose. They are biggest sore loser you will ever meet; they will never give up. A shadowed hero can turn into their greatest
around him and life itself. He shows positivity by saying “..and there is your morning, my morning, everybody’s morning.” This shows that he is purely happy while writing this poem and is enjoying life. “...poems focus on love and alienation (and evanescence), compassion and indifference, identity and the impersonality of number,...” (Crowder). Here the critic is focusing on what Carl Sandburg loves and accepting others saying “...compassion and indifference, identity and the impersonality of number
One of Emily Dickinson’s greatest skills is taking the familiar and making it unfamiliar. In this sense, she reshapes how her readers view her subjects and the meaning that they have in the world. She also has the ability to assign a word to abstractness, making her poems seemingly vague and unclear on the surface. Her poems are so carefully crafted that each word can be dissected and the reader is able to uncover intense meanings and images. Often focusing on more gothic themes, Dickinson shows
Relationship between Heart Of Darkness, The Hollow Men, and Apocalypse Now The Hollow Men is a poem by T.S. Eliot who won the Nobel Prize in 1948 for all his great accomplishments. The Hollow Men is about the hollowness that all people have; while Heart of Darkness is a story of the darkness that all people have. The poem written by Eliot was greatly influenced by Conrad and Dante. Some people may even think that WWI also influenced it. It was written after World War I and could be describing
slope once someone allows himself/herself to delve deeply into it. As insane as joy seems, I find myself wanting it, since most of my life experiences to this moment seem more like pleasure than joy. Perhaps because the ultimate disposability and evanescence of pleasure seems rather representative of my generation’s increasing awareness of the general fleetingness of things, and their skepticism of all the tropes (a house, a family, a career, the suburban life…) previously associated (mostly via Hollywood
led to her affair with two different men (Bogard). But, despite her struggles to reclaim her passion with other people who actually showed her the affection she craved, she realized that the structures of their sexual relationships all fit the evanescence of her desire. Meaning that no matter how many men or women she was with, she knew that, as Pontuale states, “ her feelings of desire could never be satisfied.” To elaborate, “she felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment of passion is betrayed
In "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", Shelley describes his realisation of the power of human intellect. In seven carefully-constructed stanzas, he outlines the qualities of this power and the e ect it has had on him, using the essential themes of Romantic poetry with references to nature and the self. In the first stanza, the concept of the "unseen Power" – the mind – is put forward, and Shelley states his position on the subject. Throughout the stanza, extensive use is made of