Lowell In A Fable for Critics, James Russell Lowell pays tribute to his contemporaries with a sort of poetic roast. Although Lowell may not be joking, the overall tone of the lengthy poem is satirical. The assessments of authors like Emerson, Bryant, Whittier, Hawthorne, Cooper, Poe, Irving, and Holmes occasionally come across as jibes. Yet often, Lowell gushes with admiration and respect for his fellow writers. Lowell consistently and liberally uses hyperbole throughout A Fable for Critics. For example, he calls Emerson's words "like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on," (line 2). He also uses romantic imagery and metaphors like the one describing Emerson as having a "Greek head on right Yankee shoulders," (2nd stanza). Just as Lowell seems to be admiring Emerson, he launches into some harsh criticisms. For example, Lowell states that Emerson speaks about ideas like they were "fossils stuck round in a cabinet" and that he is "one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts pure lecturer,"...
Emerson's words are precise and hover between poetry and prose, but his ideas seem uninspired and even "dead."
The whole aim of a fable is to create a laugh but yet, under the laughter the fable conveys an instruction. Fables are designed to teach a lesson in morality or judgment. The lessons are implied within the fable itself. The construction of a fable pays particular attention to the narration itself, the deduction of the moral and a careful maintenance of the individual characteristics of the personages introduced into
Parable of the Prodigal Son Among the multitude of lessons taught within the Holy Bible, perhaps none are more widely recognized by devotees and layman alike than the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Found within the Gospel of Luke (Luke 15:11 -- 32), this parable tells of a father torn between his two beloved sons, and the bargain he must make to satisfy a pair of sons both yearning for his
Parable of the Sower is a complex novel that engages is the post-apocalyptic world of conversation about race and religion through realistic character development and fast-paced action. The novel winds itself through the wastelands of urban warfare, the degradation of the earth at the hands of the worst American vices; violence, addiction, racial tension, cultish religions conviction, where the test of hope against woe is waged with fortress walls and
Parable of the Sadhu Bowen H. McCoy's 1983 Harvard Business Review article "The Parable of the Sadhu" describes the author's own experience of how he "literally walked through a classic moral dilemma without fully thinking through the consequences" (p.106). During a sightseeing junket to the peak of Everest, McCoy and his moralistic Quaker buddy Stephen have their travel interrupted by the discovery of a religious pilgrim -- a "sadhu" -- found
Another important characteristic of the passersby is that the first two include high ranking members of the Jewish community. If the person lying by the side of the road were beaten and were truly dead, the Pharisee and the Levite would have been forbidden to touch the body (Gourges, 883). This allowed Jesus to make the point that the upper class would not break tradition, even if it meant a
Parable of the Sadhu In the story "The Parable of Sadhu," author Bowen H. McCoy explores the question of ethics while his narrator hikes in Nepal. McCoy himself was the managing director of Morgan Stanley. He was also president of Morgan Stanley Realty, Inc. Bowen McCoy then is a figure who embodies the idea of business and financial gain. What then could he gain from a trek in the Himalayas
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