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…Yet leaping before red apoplectic streetcars -- Misfit in any space. And never on time. A wrench in clocks and the solar system. Only With words and people and love you move at ease. In traffic of wit expertly manoeuvre 15…

…these truths. It is the knowledge of the guardians, he replied, and is found among those whom we were just now describing as perfect guardians. And what is the name which the city derives from the possession of this sort of knowledge? The name of good…

…emotional aspect, dealing with the soul. In lines three and six, there is a reversal of the roles of fire and ice, from an outer more physical perspective to an inner, deep -seated psychological value. “ From what I’ve tasted of desire” and “I think I know enough…

…Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World is an embankment by the imagination upon human desire. Constrained by the physical limitations of this world, Cavendish’s ambition and love of thought carry her to the farthest reaches of her own…

…St. Brigid of Ireland Brigid lived while the Irish religion was forming the institution of Christianity. The name Brigid was the name of the Celtic sun goddess. It is believed that Brigid was born into slavery and was converted to Christianity…

…being satisfied with what they have. Levertov dramatizes this dissatisfaction by including examples of the basic human needs and desires of food, love, shelter and water. Her uses of the word “still” to end the stanzas leave the reader with a sense…

…is a female name which alludes to Beverly as the female counterpart and Elliot as the male counterpart, which together creates a whole. The twins can also be read through Freud's return of the repressed. Beverly represses his desire. In his sublime he dreams about…

…" is the Greek name for Ramses II, or Ramses the Great, third king of the 19th dynasty of Egypt. He was a powerful pharaoh that fought many wars and won most of them. The statue described is real. Ramses's desire to leave something glorious and immense behind creates…

…for acceptance by the rest of society that tears individuals apart and leads them down the path of evil. <Tab/>The inclination towards peer pressure and the individual's desire to be accepted are developed at the beginning of the novel, during which…

…the names (ming) used in the doctrines helped one to make distinctions between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, high and low, and "being" (yu) and "non- being" (wu), thereby shaping desires. To abandon knowledge was to abandon names, distinctions, tastes…