Discuss Andrew Marvell as a metaphysical poet.

Andrew Marvell in his poem "To His Coy Mistress"
demonstrates two characteristics of poetry we, today, categorize as
metaphysical.

He uses stretched metaphors, for example.  In
part one of his syllogism, or logical argument designed to convince his target--a
woman--to sleep with him, he refers to their love as "vegetable love."  The idea is that
if they were immortal and could spend centuries in the wooing stage
of love making, their love could grow as slowly as a vegetable.  The metaphor is
stretched, of course.  The slow growing rate of a vegetable is not normally compared to
love growing.

Secondly, Marvell displays and revels in his
wit and intelligence and learning.  In the second part of his syllogism, in which he
centers on the mortality of humans, he concludes with

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The grave's a fine and private
place,

But none, I think, do there
embrace.

And later, in part
three, he says that the lovers should be like "amorous birds of
prey."

The grave couplet demonstrates his wit and keeps the
poem a little lighter than the morbid imagery might otherwise make
it.

The comparison of lovers to loving predators
demonstrates both a stretched metaphor and wit.

The
stretched metaphors, the wit displayed, and, additionally, the carpe diem theme, mark
Marvell as a metaphysical poet.

What are the main arguments of Madison Jones's essay "A Good Man's Predicament," which deals with Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard to...

In his essay “A Good Man’s Predicament,” Madison Jones
essentially takes issue with Flannery O’Connor’s own interpretation of the very end of
the story.  Jones offers a different interpretation and suggests that his own reading
may be truer to the actual phrasing of the story and to reality (at least as reality is
generally understood) than is O’Connor’s interpretation.  He implies that the two
interpretations may not be incompatible, but he suggests that if they
cannot be reconciled, then his interpretation makes better sense of
the story.

In an essay on “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,”
O’Connor herself had argued that God uses the grandmother to touch The Misfit, both
literally and figuratively.  This touch was a moment of grace – an opportunity for The
Misfit to transform his life spiritually, if only he would take advantage of the
opportunity.  By reaching out to The Misfit (O’Connor had argued), the grandmother truly
and finally lives her Christian faith:

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The Grandmother is at last alone, facing the
Misfit.  Her head clears for an instant and she realizes. even in her limited way, that
she is responsible for the man before her and joined to him by ties of kinship which
have their roots deep in the mystery she has been merely prattling about so far.  And at
this point, she does the right thing, she makes the right
gesture.

The fact that the
grandmother was killed by The Misfit as a result of her gesture meant nothing to
O’Connor.  We are all destined to die, but the grandmother’s gesture had given a depth
of meaning to her life that it had hitherto lacked. Her dead body is ultimately
unimportant; her spiritual salvation is all that truly
matters.

Jones resists this Christian interpretation, or at
least he suggests that it is not the only one that makes sense of the story.  Instead,
he argues as follows:

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Given the Misfit's image of himself, [the
grandmother's] words and her touching, blessing him, amount to intolerable insult, for
hereby she includes him among the world's family of vulgarians. One of her children, her
kind, indeed!

In other words,
The Misfit kills the grandmother not because God uses the grandmother as an instrument
of grace but because her touch violates his pride.  Jones leaves open the possibility
that The Misfit may perceive the grandmother as an instrument of
God, but he argues that there is no reason why readers must share that perception.  The
story, in other words, makes perfect sense from a secular perspective and using secular
psychology.  There is nothing, necessarily, miraculous about the grandmother’s gesture
or The Misfit’s response. The Misfit may even perceive the
grandmother as an instrument of God, but readers do not necessarily have to share this
perception in order to appreciate the story or find it
meaningful.

A critic of Jones’s interpretation might argue
that he fails to discuss various details in the end of the story that support O’Connor’s
reading (particularly our final view of the grandmother, “with her legs crossed under
her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky”), but Jones’s reading,
as he himself suggests, may not necessarily conflict with
O’Connor’s.

What is s(t) if s'(t)=36t^5+4t^3?

According to the rule, s(t) could be determined evaluating
the indefinite integral of s'(t)

Int
(36t^5+4t^3)dt

We'll apply the additive property of
integrals:

Int (36t^5+4t^3)dt = Int (36 t^5)dt + Int (4
t^3)dt

We'll re-write the sum of integrals, taking out the
constants:

Int (36t^5+4t^3)dt = 36 Int t^5 dt + 4Int t^3
dt

Int (36t^5+4t^3)dt = 36*x^6/6 +
4*x^4/4

We'll simplify and we'll
get:

Int (36t^5+4t^3)dt = 6x^6 + x^4 +
C

The function  s(t)
is:  s(t) = 6x^6 + x^4 +
C

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Read Walt Whitman’s poem below. What implications may it have, not just for this course, but for your...

If you are pursuing a master's degree, you are going to
have to learn a lot of information. Depending on your field, it may be mathematical
formulas, scientific data, a vast body of literature -- no matter. However, in this
poem, the poet acknowledges that sometimes one can suffer from information
overload.

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When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in
columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the
diagrams, to add, divide and measure
them;

When the poet considers
all of the "stuff" of learning, he becomes bored and goes outside and looks at the night
sky. Ah! He is instantly amazed, for in gazing at the sky, he is really learning. He is
not bored. He is soaking in a true appreciation of the world. He can learn more by
observing the real "learned astronomer" who is the creator of the
"perfect silence" of the stars. It is a mystical experience for
him.

So, like the poet, will the learning that you obtain
from your advanced degree enrich your life? It should. If not, it will merely be proofs,
figures, charts and diagrams.

In Romeo and Juliet, who are three characters whose personality traits complement or contrast each others' personalities?I need THREE characters...

Tybalt, Mercutio, and Benvoliorepresent three diverse
points along a conitnuum. Tybalt is fiery and hot-blooded, with a short temper that is
prone to violence and confrontation. We see this in the opening fight scene and just
prior to the death of Mercutio. Benvolio, on the other hand, is at the opposite end of
this spectrum (as is Romeo, who might also be inserted here). He resists violence and
confrontation and seeks peace the vast majority of the time. In the opening fight scene
he resists engaging Tybalt as long as he possibly can and finally does fight only to
protect himself. In fact, Benvolio opens Act III by trying to avoid
confrontation:

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I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's
retire:
The day is hot, the Capulets
abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not scape a
brawl;
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood
stirring.

It is
Mercutio, then, who represents a kind of middle ground between Tybalt and Benvolio.
Mercutio fights when provoked and certainly doesn't shy away from engaging such
situations, but it is not Mercutio who actually starts the fight. Mercutio seems to
swing back and forth between the hot-headedness of Tybalt and Benvolio's desire for
peace. In fact, Mercutio's name comes from the word "mercurial," meaning
"characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood;
a mercurial temper."

I just need to make sure one thing, communism is related to 'after the bomb' because communism was spreading rapidly after the cold war.So it would...

Communism became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 19th
century.  Anyone interested in philosophy during this period took a long, hard look at
the idealism of communism.  In the early 20th century, communist powers took control of
Russia and surrounding countries (changing the name to the Soviet Union).  China and
Cuba were taken over by communist factions afterwords.  In the middle to late 20th
century, communist nations were aiding communist factions in taking over countries such
as Korea, Veitnam, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and some other places.  This was viewed as
a threat to the nations of the West.

The Cold War is a
concept referring to the building of two nations with large-scale nuclear capability. 
The Unitied States stated that communism is evil.  Communism is, by nature,
anti-capitalist.  This is where the bad blood starts.  At its heart, communism is a
system that is supposed to help the common people that capitalism theoretically
alienates.  In a capitalist society, there is a percentage of people who have most of
the moeny; communism was supposed to rectify that.  However, the leaders that arose in
communist nations seemed to use the ideals of communism to rally support for their more
selfish motives.

For those who did not live during the time
of The Cold War, it can be equated somewhat to the way that people in the United States
look at Muslims as being dangerous.  There are some bad people associated with the
Muslim faith, taking its tenets a bit too far.  The difference, though, is that there
were a couple of very large nations with governments possessing large armies that were
seen as "the bad guys" instead of small radical groups.  It was a frightening time, a
time in which everyone thought the world could end at any
moment.

I hope this helps with your
question.

Why does Catherine take three nights off from night duty?Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

After being hit during a bombardment, Henry loses a
kneecap. When he is transferred to Milan where he will have an operation, Catherine
Barkley arrives at the hospital.  Henry holds her tightly when she comes to
him:

"You
mustn't," she said.  "You're not well enought."

"Yes, I
am.  Come on."

..."Fell our hearts
beating."

"I don't care about our hearts.  I want you.  I'm
just mad about you."

"You really love
me?"

Catherine is hesitant
about lovemaking as she has already lost a fiance; however, she gives in to Henry. 
Their act is for Henry, at least in part, an escape from the horrors of war. That Henry
escapes his tormenting thoughts with Catherine is evinced as Catherine works night duty
and sees Henry whenever she can.  Henry, then, talks with Ferguson, who suggests that
Catherine take off from night duty and get some rest. Henry agrees. When Miss Gage, who
declares herself Henry's "friend," enters and talks with Henry, she says that she will
be glad to help him. The next day Henry learns that Catherine has taken three nights off
her night duty.  When she returns, Henry states, "It was as though we met again after
each of us had been away on a long journey."