Life is just that way: full of surprises. Things always come to pass before you can say "Hallelujah". We're still wondering "what happened" and then something new takes place...
Everything change and you always become acquainted with somebody else faster than you can utter "unbelievable". We make plans in advance, yet we know things don't always turn out the way we want. You attempt to exert control over your life itself, but eventually it seems you rule nothing at all.
Of course, we will reach some goals we designed for our days on the surface of this planet, and I think we have all the wish to taste onde day in the future that "mission accomplished" feeling we see sparkling of the wide screen of a movie room.
In fact, there is one and one only who reigns over our short-while lasting lives: God. You may consider he does not exist, or that I am completely wrong, but your disbelief won't just shift anything. Indeed, Truth doesn't become a lie no matter you don't believe it.
Wir wollen immer alles in unserem Leben unter Kontrolle haben, aber es ist leider nicht möglich. Wir verlieren die Beherrschung über unsere so kurzweilige Tage auf dieser Erde, weil wir nicht alles so kontrolieren können, wie wir möchten.
Selbstverständlich machen wir mehrere Pläne und wir wünschen uns, alle unsere Ziele während unseres Lebens zu erreichen, aber nicht immer gehen wir auf dem Weg, der uns zum Erfolg führt. Unglücklicherweise bemerken wir nicht, dass wir Hilfe brauchen, um auf unsere Zukunft aufzupassen. Wir kümmern uns einige Male um Unsinn, und wir vergessen, was wirklich wichtig ist, weil wir meistens zu beschäftigt sind.
Aber es gibt jemanden, der der Zeit nicht untertan ist. Er heisst Gott, und er sieht sich unser Umgehorsam und nutzlose Anstregung an. Wir sind so fern von seiner Gengenwart, dass wir seiner Stimme nicht zuhören können. Sogar meinen einige, dass er nicht existiert, und darum glauben sie nicht an ihn. Aber die Wahrheit wird keine Lüge, wenn man ihr nicht glaubt. Der denkt, dass ich falsch bin, weiss gar nicht, dass das Irrtum und die Verrückung die Schlüssel sind, die die Tür zur Freude und die Pforte zum Glück öffnen.
Himmel und Erde werden vergehen, doch das Wort Gottes wird in Ewigkeit bleiben.
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Brief Overview of English Literature, part 3
After 1340, Geoffrey Chaucer come to the stage as one of the best equipped of the English poets because of his rich background. In his masterpiece, “The Canterbury Tales”, he gave literature something it had never seen before: observation of life as it is really lived, pictures of people who are real and a view of life which we can only call “modern”.
This was partly a new idea and partly an old one. Collections of short stories had been popular for a long while on the Continent. The next greatest work of Chaucer is “Trolius and Criseyde”, a love-story taken from the annals of the Trojan War, which has provided European writers with innumerable myths.
Only in Scotland did something of the Chaucerian fire still burn, in poets like King James I (1394 – 1437), Robert Henryson (1425 – 1500), William Dunbar (1465 – 1520) and Gavin Douglas (1475? – 1522?). The only considerable poet who England seems to have produced in the fifteenth century is John Skelton (1460? – 1529).
A species of poetry which seems to lie outside the main current of English literature must be mentioned as well – the Ballad. It was a kind of popular verse which flourished chiefly on the border between England and Scotland and was passed down orally. Because of this, the Ballads – like Old English poetry – cannot be assigned to any author or authors.
A book whose influence on English writing, speech and thought has been (and still is) immense ought to be considered herein: the Bible. It is not primarily literature; it is the sacred book of Christianity. However, recently there has been a growing tendency to appreciate the Bible for its artistic qualities, to view it not only as the ‘word of God’ but also as the work of great writers.
Shakespeare is England’s – and the world’s – greatest dramatist, and before talking about his achievements we must find out first what drama is. It is the most natural of the arts, being based on one of the most fundamental of the human and animal faculties – the ability of imitation.
Religion and drama shall be seen closely mixed throughout the early history of the art in Europe. The Greek developed the tragedy and the comedy around this subject matter, for example. It is worth stating that there is a huge difference between the Greek and Shakespearian concept of tragedy. The Shakespearian hero has the power of choice, but with the heroes of the Greek tragedy there is no free will at all, because Gods control a man’s destiny.
One admirable thing about the Greek tragic dramatists is their sense of form. Their main concern is to tell a story and to emphasize the moral significance of that story itself: everything is subordinated to that end.
It is certain that no religious dramas of this type existed in England before the Norman conquest, and that it was the Normans themselves who introduced sacred drama to England. This drama became so popular that underwent a process of secularisation. These were called Miracle plays.
Corpus Christi was chosen by the trade-guilds of England’s towns as a day for the presentation of a cycle of plays based on incidents from the Bible. This set the historical context for the rise of the Mystery Plays.
Secular subjects are slow in coming, but they make their way into drama through a new kind of religious or semi-religious play – the Morality Plays. In the last days of the fifteenth century, we find it rather hard to distinguish between the Morality Plays and the Interlude. An interlude was a short play performed in the middle of something else, perhaps a feast – a sort of incidental entertainment. Now the raw materials for the Elizabethan drama are being gathered up together.
This was partly a new idea and partly an old one. Collections of short stories had been popular for a long while on the Continent. The next greatest work of Chaucer is “Trolius and Criseyde”, a love-story taken from the annals of the Trojan War, which has provided European writers with innumerable myths.
Only in Scotland did something of the Chaucerian fire still burn, in poets like King James I (1394 – 1437), Robert Henryson (1425 – 1500), William Dunbar (1465 – 1520) and Gavin Douglas (1475? – 1522?). The only considerable poet who England seems to have produced in the fifteenth century is John Skelton (1460? – 1529).
A species of poetry which seems to lie outside the main current of English literature must be mentioned as well – the Ballad. It was a kind of popular verse which flourished chiefly on the border between England and Scotland and was passed down orally. Because of this, the Ballads – like Old English poetry – cannot be assigned to any author or authors.
A book whose influence on English writing, speech and thought has been (and still is) immense ought to be considered herein: the Bible. It is not primarily literature; it is the sacred book of Christianity. However, recently there has been a growing tendency to appreciate the Bible for its artistic qualities, to view it not only as the ‘word of God’ but also as the work of great writers.
Shakespeare is England’s – and the world’s – greatest dramatist, and before talking about his achievements we must find out first what drama is. It is the most natural of the arts, being based on one of the most fundamental of the human and animal faculties – the ability of imitation.
Religion and drama shall be seen closely mixed throughout the early history of the art in Europe. The Greek developed the tragedy and the comedy around this subject matter, for example. It is worth stating that there is a huge difference between the Greek and Shakespearian concept of tragedy. The Shakespearian hero has the power of choice, but with the heroes of the Greek tragedy there is no free will at all, because Gods control a man’s destiny.
One admirable thing about the Greek tragic dramatists is their sense of form. Their main concern is to tell a story and to emphasize the moral significance of that story itself: everything is subordinated to that end.
It is certain that no religious dramas of this type existed in England before the Norman conquest, and that it was the Normans themselves who introduced sacred drama to England. This drama became so popular that underwent a process of secularisation. These were called Miracle plays.
Corpus Christi was chosen by the trade-guilds of England’s towns as a day for the presentation of a cycle of plays based on incidents from the Bible. This set the historical context for the rise of the Mystery Plays.
Secular subjects are slow in coming, but they make their way into drama through a new kind of religious or semi-religious play – the Morality Plays. In the last days of the fifteenth century, we find it rather hard to distinguish between the Morality Plays and the Interlude. An interlude was a short play performed in the middle of something else, perhaps a feast – a sort of incidental entertainment. Now the raw materials for the Elizabethan drama are being gathered up together.
Brief Overview of English Literature, part 2
Science and literature are alike and important subjects, because they last long and usually their key figures remain in our minds. The task of scientist is to be curious and ask “why”, he seeks the truth, that is, what lies behind the outward show. This can be useless in our average lives but not valueless. Truth is a value and beauty other. Thus, an artist surveys the beauty and a scientist searches for the truth. Both are one value that science and arts examine in different ways.
An artist’s production is intended to cause an artistic excitement in his audience. This prompts you to do nothing, but this leaves you content instead. The artist takes raw material and forces and coaxes it into a pattern. Unity, order, and pattern may be created by bringing together two completely opposed and unrelated ideas and fusing them.
The pleasure of finding an artist able to express our feelings for us is a kind of artistic experience of patterns. Any strong emotion has to be relieved. Thus, all the artists try to perform the same sort of task differing only in their methods.
Literature uses words as raw material both in artistic (word conotation) and non-artistic (word denotation) ways. The writer of literature does not restrict his words like a scientist must be clear and objective in his writings.
Literature has different branches and poetry is the most literary one because it makes the greatest use of literature’s raw material, namely, words. Poetry is further divided in three categories: 1) epic poetry, 2) dramatic poem, and 3) lyrical poetry. Unfortunately, the only kind of poetry left nowadays is the lyrical one.
English Literature is literature written in English, and not merely texts composed by people from England and British Isles. England is an island with varied landscape, and well separated four seasons. The local climate there has shaped the character of the English people then.
The English have preferred to invent their own writing forms and to have as many syllables as they wished in a line of a verse instead of following the existent rules. English literature has a freedom, a willingness to experiment a hatred of rules which has no parallel in any other litetarure.
An artist’s production is intended to cause an artistic excitement in his audience. This prompts you to do nothing, but this leaves you content instead. The artist takes raw material and forces and coaxes it into a pattern. Unity, order, and pattern may be created by bringing together two completely opposed and unrelated ideas and fusing them.
The pleasure of finding an artist able to express our feelings for us is a kind of artistic experience of patterns. Any strong emotion has to be relieved. Thus, all the artists try to perform the same sort of task differing only in their methods.
Literature uses words as raw material both in artistic (word conotation) and non-artistic (word denotation) ways. The writer of literature does not restrict his words like a scientist must be clear and objective in his writings.
Literature has different branches and poetry is the most literary one because it makes the greatest use of literature’s raw material, namely, words. Poetry is further divided in three categories: 1) epic poetry, 2) dramatic poem, and 3) lyrical poetry. Unfortunately, the only kind of poetry left nowadays is the lyrical one.
English Literature is literature written in English, and not merely texts composed by people from England and British Isles. England is an island with varied landscape, and well separated four seasons. The local climate there has shaped the character of the English people then.
The English have preferred to invent their own writing forms and to have as many syllables as they wished in a line of a verse instead of following the existent rules. English literature has a freedom, a willingness to experiment a hatred of rules which has no parallel in any other litetarure.
Brief Overview of English Literature, part 1
Science and literature are alike and important subjects, because they last long and usually their key figures remain in our minds. The task of scientist is to be curious and ask “why”, he seeks the truth, that is, what lies behind the outward show. This can be useless in our average lives but not valueless. Truth is a value and beauty other. Thus, an artist surveys the beauty and a scientist searches for the truth. Both are one value that science and arts examine in different ways.
An artist’s production is intended to cause an artistic excitement in his audience. This prompts you to do nothing, but this leaves you content instead. The artist takes raw material and forces and coaxes it into a pattern. Unity, order, and pattern may be created by bringing together two completely opposed and unrelated ideas and fusing them.
The pleasure of finding an artist able to express our feelings for us is a kind of artistic experience of patterns. Any strong emotion has to be relieved. Thus, all the artists try to perform the same sort of task differing only in their methods.
Literature uses words as raw material both in artistic (word conotation) and non-artistic (word denotation) ways. The writer of literature does not restrict his words like a scientist must be clear and objective in his writings.
Literature has different branches and poetry is the most literary one because it makes the greatest use of literature’s raw material, namely, words. Poetry is further divided in three categories: 1) epic poetry, 2) dramatic poem, and 3) lyrical poetry. Unfortunately, the only kind of poetry left nowadays is the lyrical one.
English Literature is literature written in English, and not merely texts composed by people from England and British Isles. England is an island with varied landscape, and well separated four seasons. The local climate there has shaped the character of the English people then.
The English have preferred to invent their own writing forms and to have as many syllables as they wished in a line of a verse instead of following the existent rules. English literature has a freedom, a willingness to experiment a hatred of rules which has no parallel in any other litetarure.
An artist’s production is intended to cause an artistic excitement in his audience. This prompts you to do nothing, but this leaves you content instead. The artist takes raw material and forces and coaxes it into a pattern. Unity, order, and pattern may be created by bringing together two completely opposed and unrelated ideas and fusing them.
The pleasure of finding an artist able to express our feelings for us is a kind of artistic experience of patterns. Any strong emotion has to be relieved. Thus, all the artists try to perform the same sort of task differing only in their methods.
Literature uses words as raw material both in artistic (word conotation) and non-artistic (word denotation) ways. The writer of literature does not restrict his words like a scientist must be clear and objective in his writings.
Literature has different branches and poetry is the most literary one because it makes the greatest use of literature’s raw material, namely, words. Poetry is further divided in three categories: 1) epic poetry, 2) dramatic poem, and 3) lyrical poetry. Unfortunately, the only kind of poetry left nowadays is the lyrical one.
English Literature is literature written in English, and not merely texts composed by people from England and British Isles. England is an island with varied landscape, and well separated four seasons. The local climate there has shaped the character of the English people then.
The English have preferred to invent their own writing forms and to have as many syllables as they wished in a line of a verse instead of following the existent rules. English literature has a freedom, a willingness to experiment a hatred of rules which has no parallel in any other litetarure.
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