Comparing Musée des Beaux Arts and Life Cycle of Common Man
"Musée des Beaux Arts" and "Life Cycle of Common Man" share a common theme, though the imagery they use to express it is quite different. Both poems have the theme of life goes on or life stops for no one. The difference in imagery is the difference between the general and the specific. I believe that the theme of both poems lies in the same vein, but they take different paths to its development. Auden speaks more about society in general; then, he gives an interpretation of a painting as an example. On the other hand, Nemerov expresses the theme through the "life cycle" of one man, but is this one man--everyman? The "they" of Auden's poem?
In the first thirteen lines of Auden's poem, he is not speaking about how life goes on for any one person, but how it does not stop for any one. At first he speaks of the Old Masters: "The Old Masters: how well they understood its human position; how it takes place. . . ." The Old Masters were a group of painters in Belgium in the 1500s that were known for their paintings of the every day, ordinary average life. This was a radical change for the time, directing art away from royalty and the church, and into the everyday that people could relate to. The human position he is speaking of is how we are situated in the world in the most fundamental of ways. These are not our moments of triumph or failure but just our day-to-day life. We are all really in the same position. Life itself, not its quality, is the same for everyone; we are all equal participants in the human experience. It continues on relentlessly for everyone: "While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
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...cipants no matter what way of life we choose. However for me, it does not take courage to choose the path of the common man. This, in Nietzsche's terms, is a "no-saying" to life, and not the "yes-saying" to life of Icarus. That is saying yes to the whole of life and not being content with the mundane cyclicity that some accept for life. These poems could be seen as a reminder that we have the choice to be an Icarus or a plowman. Through the imagery of "Musée des Beaux Arts" and "Life Cycle of Common Man," we see an expression of this idea that life goes on. While Auden uses the art and myth of a different era, Nemerov uses concrete descriptions to show us that life is a continuum; it stops for no one. Whether we choose to try and fly to the sun, or to become John Q. Public, life will go on, and the only thing we can change about that is how we experience it.
Since the U.S. Congress passed the No Child Left Behind program, standardized testing has become the norm for American schools. Under this system, each child attending a school is required to take a standardized test at specific grade points to assess their level of comprehension. Parents, scholars and all stakeholders involved take part in constant discussions over its effectiveness in evaluating students’ comprehension, teachers’ competency and the effects of the test on the education system. Though these tests were put in place to create equality, experts note that they have created more inequality in the classroom. In efforts to explore this issue further, this essay reviews two articles on standardized testing. This essay reviews the sentiments of the authors and their insight into standardized examination. The articles provide sufficient evidence to demonstrate that standardized tests are not effective at measuring a teacher’s competency because they do not take into account the school environment and its effect on the students.
Kohn, Alfie. "Standardized Testing and Its Victims." Education Week. N.p., 27 Sept. 2000. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
enable us to understand the moral of the poem. Which is work hard and you will receive you goals and never give up.
Standardized tests have been a controversial issue regarding whether they are helping or hurting students and their academics. People that are for standardized testing argue that the tests are fair because all students nationwide are learning and being tested on the same thing. Bruno, Kemmerling, and others agree that these tests are beneficial to schools, students, and teachers. Others who are against standardized testing disagree because teachers are only teaching to the test. Littky, Caines, and Hanford see the negative aspects of standardized testing and want to change how people perceive it. Both sides of the issue have a credible argument.
As child growing up some of the frightful memories include a visit to the dentist; an evil man with scary drill whose solve purpose is to hurt you or the first day in elementary school you finally leave all behind the cozy classrooms and nap times of kindergarten and enter the big leagues. All of these are considered a cakewalk compared to standardize testing. Since the start of elementary school students in the United States are taught to test. In many instances students are held back or placed in remedial classes because of lower grades. But many don’t realize that some students are not great at testing taking and because of the lower grades some educators believe that these students are lower achievers. This leads to lower self-esteem and encourage students to drop out in later years. Also students are forced to memorize information merely as facts without sparking their creativity or enhancing their knowledge.
Almost every high school student will take it: the standardized test. Tests like the SAT and ACT are used to measure how well a student will do in his or her college life, but these tests are not always accurate. There are many different types of students and most of the high scores and low scores correlate to certain groups of students which is why some argue these tests are biased. Standardized tests, especially the ones that measure college success, are not as effective at ranking a student’s academic ability as many people believe. Standardized tests prevent students from proper learning in the classroom and they cannot equally measure every kind of student’s intelligence.
The word renaissance means rebirth in French. Later historians would claim and label era of the renaissance by the rebirth of approach and standards based on in traditional antiquity. The renaissance was from 1420 to 1600 and it was both historical and cultural. Some of the most notable events that occurred during this period was the end of the hundred-year war between England and France, Christopher Columbus heads for the new world, Ottaviano Petrucci publishes the Odhecaton which is the first book of music printed, Henry VIII breaks with Rome, declares himself the head of the church of England, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. However, there are other countless events that took place this time period.
In any group, dealing with difficult group members is vital to the group’s success. Stand By Me has three different types of difficult group members that cause problems in their own way.
“Known as the Renaissance, the period immediately following the Middle Ages in Europe saw a great revival of interest in the classical learning and values of ancient Greece and Rome” (History). The word Renaissance is French for rebirth (Sachs 7). The origins can be traced back to Italy in the 14th century (History). Florence, Venice, and Rome grew into major centers in art, due to the changes that were occurring during this time (Sachs 7.) Artists across the country were exploring their newfound creativity and for new ways to express these advanced concepts (Sachs 7). The Renaissance was a time for artistic expression, especially through the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
This poem symbolizes how adults never wanted to grow up and become independent. (In Lines 4-8) “The present. Why can’t we pretend
Life is full of change, it’s how life is supposed to be, but with crazy amounts of change creates an allusion of changelessness, how this just seem to stop with time. In all of Yeats poems argue and relate these different mediums together. Both are parts of the lives of humans, there must be a balance to how you see life and without this balance you will never be truly happy. This is what makes Yeats one of the greatest poets of the English language.
The start of the Renaissance ended the period in which we refer to as the Middle Ages. The Renaissance began in the 14th century, an age of great creativity and change in many areas. Classical ideas were modified, and political, social, economic, and cultural values were reborn as a result of the achievements of certain individuals. Occurring subsequently, the Reformation was an upheaval of beliefs in religious, political, intellectual, and cultural views that caused fragmentation in Catholic Europe. The era of the Renaissance and Reformation were a significant point in history which effectively ended the medieval period, creating a revolutionary departure from the Middle Ages. The Renaissance Period was a rebirth of ideas and concepts after the Middle Ages, the cultural movement focusing on art, history, and literature, all of which had a considerable impact upon Christianity.
After the Middle Ages, the Renaissance took place in 1350-1550. During this period, new ideas about cultures, arts and inventions formed. Art was one of the most influential out of cultures and inventions. With art, artists were able to exemplify realism, humanism, and secularism. Art did not just show paintings. It showed different views of the Renaissance.
not enough to combat the effects of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War
The end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of new era, the beginning of the transition from feudal to bourgeois medieval society, when the foundations of the feudal social way of life were shattered, and the bourgeois-capitalist relations have not yet emerged with all their mercantile morality and soulless hypocrisy, is known as the Renaissance. The love of aristocracy for wealth and splendor were provocative, where the Church considered as a clear access to the political power. Rome itself became the biblical Babylon, which dominated by corruption, unbelief and immorality. The era of free urban communes was short, the era of tyranny began shortly. A commercial rivalry among the European cities eventually turned into a bloody rivalry. In this complex world of the Renaissance were working artists, dreaming about the utopia and embodying their perfect world in their art.