Utopia

‌Beautiful words from poems

The following are bits and pieces of the Brain Candy collector's favorite poems, accumulated through the years. In the case of some shorter works, the entire poem is included.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
- - - -Edward Fitzgerald "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"

A robin red breast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
- - - -William Blake "Auguries of Innocence"

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost.
- - - -J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"

And all shall be well
And all manner of things shall be well.
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire,
And the fire and the rose are one.
- - - -T. S. Eliot "Four Quartets"

Literal terms

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer--written by that actual person.

BIOGRAPHY: an account of a person's lif, non-fictional in nature. Modern biographies tend to be scrupulously accurate, at least as regards events. Early biographies were often written to augment or support a particular line of thought, and so the moral of a person's life became more important than the life itself.

Flashback: a technique whereby the author interrupts the main narrative to relate events that took place at some time preceding the main narrative.

GOTHIC NOVEL: A type of romance wildly popular between 1760 up until the 1820s that has influenced the ghost story and horror story. The stories are designed to thrill readers by providing mystery and blood-curdling accounts of villainy, murder, and the supernatural. The term Gothic originally was applied to a tribe of Germanic barbarians during the dark ages. The first and the best known early example is Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

ادامه مطلب

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

summary

Chapter 1

A fair-haired boy lowers himself down some rocks toward a lagoon on a beach. At the lagoon, he encounters another boy, who is chubby, intellectual, and wears thick glasses. The fair-haired boy introduces himself as Ralph and the chubby one introduces himself as Piggy. Through their conversation, we learn that in the midst of a war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys was shot down over the ocean. It crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lost each other and cannot find the pilot.