Vivian, a woman who is a tough professor doesn’t realize that she isn’t really living life until she is diagnosed with cancer. The film shows flashbacks of Vivian’s life before finding out that she has cancer; we see how indifferent she is to the world around her. However, as Vivian has to cope with the high chance of dying, she begins to realize how unresponsive she was to real life. In one of her flashbacks, we see how her professor insists that Vivian go outside rather than go back to the library because her professor wants Vivian to experience life rather than just read it from books. Vivian doesn’t listens because at the time, she doesn’t understand what her professor meant by living life. To her, life is going to the library, studying and working. She isn’t able to appreciate life as others would because she is too wrapped up in getting the right answer in her paper and emphasizing the importance of John Donne’s poetry.
Her obsession with John Donne is what prevents her from experiencing life as she should have. Until being diagnosed with cancer, she isn’t able to really grasp what John Donne meant. While dying though, she seems to come to the realization that in order to understand something you have to live it first hand. In order to understand death in ‘‘Death, be not Proud’’ she has to go through death itself. While slowly dying, Vivian observes how her doctors act with no emotion like robots programmed to find how long the drugs can make her last. During this process, she realizes how inhumane she was with her own students. Since she didn’t live her life to the fullest, she had no communication skills. She saw others as insufficient beings who would never really understand poetry like she did. What she failed to see at the time was that she was actually the one who wasn’t able to fully comprehend John Donne’s poetry because she herself hadn’t lived her life as she could have. In this sense, dying taught Vivian that treating people with respect and dignity is just as vital in life as experiencing life first-hand.
In my opinion, dying has taught Vivian that she hadn’t lived life until she begins to die. Dying is a part of life that is just like any other lesson we daily learn. The nurse and her professor help her realize how much she has missed in her life and as Vivian speaks of her regrets of such actions. She learns that having dignity and treating others like normal human beings is only just part of life. The majority of life is living it as it comes and not being obsessed with concepts that you are not able to understand until you actually live it (in this case death in John Donne’s poem).
6 Ocak 2009 Salı
What does Vivian's dying teach her about death
Vivian, a woman who is a tough professor doesn’t realize that she isn’t really living life until she is diagnosed with cancer. The film shows flashbacks of Vivian’s life before finding out that she has cancer; we see how indifferent she is to the world around her. However, as Vivian has to cope with the high chance of dying, she begins to realize how unresponsive she was to real life. In one of her flashbacks, we see how her professor insists that Vivian go outside rather than go back to the library because her professor wants Vivian to experience life rather than just read it from books. Vivian doesn’t listens because at the time, she doesn’t understand what her professor meant by living life. To her, life is going to the library, studying and working. She isn’t able to appreciate life as others would because she is too wrapped up in getting the right answer in her paper and emphasizing the importance of John Donne’s poetry.
Her obsession with John Donne is what prevents her from experiencing life as she should have. Until being diagnosed with cancer, she isn’t able to really grasp what John Donne meant. While dying though, she seems to come to the realization that in order to understand something you have to live it first hand. In order to understand death in ‘‘Death, be not Proud’’ she has to go through death itself. While slowly dying, Vivian observes how her doctors act with no emotion like robots programmed to find how long the drugs can make her last. During this process, she realizes how inhumane she was with her own students. Since she didn’t live her life to the fullest, she had no communication skills. She saw others as insufficient beings who would never really understand poetry like she did. What she failed to see at the time was that she was actually the one who wasn’t able to fully comprehend John Donne’s poetry because she herself hadn’t lived her life as she could have. In this sense, dying taught Vivian that treating people with respect and dignity is just as vital in life as experiencing life first-hand.
In my opinion, dying has taught Vivian that she hadn’t lived life until she begins to die. Dying is a part of life that is just like any other lesson we daily learn. The nurse and her professor help her realize how much she has missed in her life and as Vivian speaks of her regrets of such actions. She learns that having dignity and treating others like normal human beings is only just part of life. The majority of life is living it as it comes and not being obsessed with concepts that you are not able to understand until you actually live it (in this case death in John Donne’s poem).
Her obsession with John Donne is what prevents her from experiencing life as she should have. Until being diagnosed with cancer, she isn’t able to really grasp what John Donne meant. While dying though, she seems to come to the realization that in order to understand something you have to live it first hand. In order to understand death in ‘‘Death, be not Proud’’ she has to go through death itself. While slowly dying, Vivian observes how her doctors act with no emotion like robots programmed to find how long the drugs can make her last. During this process, she realizes how inhumane she was with her own students. Since she didn’t live her life to the fullest, she had no communication skills. She saw others as insufficient beings who would never really understand poetry like she did. What she failed to see at the time was that she was actually the one who wasn’t able to fully comprehend John Donne’s poetry because she herself hadn’t lived her life as she could have. In this sense, dying taught Vivian that treating people with respect and dignity is just as vital in life as experiencing life first-hand.
In my opinion, dying has taught Vivian that she hadn’t lived life until she begins to die. Dying is a part of life that is just like any other lesson we daily learn. The nurse and her professor help her realize how much she has missed in her life and as Vivian speaks of her regrets of such actions. She learns that having dignity and treating others like normal human beings is only just part of life. The majority of life is living it as it comes and not being obsessed with concepts that you are not able to understand until you actually live it (in this case death in John Donne’s poem).
16 Kasım 2008 Pazar
What is poetry?
Poetry is a means for poets to express themselves through their words. Its purpose is to evoke thought and emotion. Poetry opens our eyes in a different perspective: it allows us to view the same circumstances in a wider sense. It enlightens us. Poetry makes us think of things which we normally wouldn’t give a second thought to.
‘‘It is the light at the end of the tunnel and the darkness within it.’’ It confuses us sometimes but forces us to think more critically. Through poetry, one can come to realization of a certain issue. Poetry is expressing yearning for someone/something or just the appreciation of one’s surroundings. It is an imagined world where some things exist and others don’t. It also lets us understand what thoughts the poet may be trying to convey. Or it is the direct and harsh depiction of the world around us today. ‘‘Poems are lifesavers when your boat capsizes.’’ They let us create another world where it is our way out of the real world: our ticket to our idea of a dream world. Or sometimes they just make the truth seem more obvious. ‘‘It is a lighthouse moving its megaphone over the sea.’’ It acts as a savior for some of us: allows guidance and leads us in the right direction. Or sometimes when we are not able me to relate with the poem or the message the poet is trying to convey we think of poetry as ‘‘worth nothing and therefore invaluable.’’ Poetry means radical ideas: going against everyone else’s ideas, or bringing new ones to the table. ‘‘The poet a subversive barbarian at the city gates, challenging the status quo.’’ Poetry symbolizes originality. ‘‘The images in a poem should be jamais vu, not déjà vu.’’ Being the first to convey a certain message in a radical way is a way to establish enjoyable poetry.
‘‘It is the light at the end of the tunnel and the darkness within it.’’ It confuses us sometimes but forces us to think more critically. Through poetry, one can come to realization of a certain issue. Poetry is expressing yearning for someone/something or just the appreciation of one’s surroundings. It is an imagined world where some things exist and others don’t. It also lets us understand what thoughts the poet may be trying to convey. Or it is the direct and harsh depiction of the world around us today. ‘‘Poems are lifesavers when your boat capsizes.’’ They let us create another world where it is our way out of the real world: our ticket to our idea of a dream world. Or sometimes they just make the truth seem more obvious. ‘‘It is a lighthouse moving its megaphone over the sea.’’ It acts as a savior for some of us: allows guidance and leads us in the right direction. Or sometimes when we are not able me to relate with the poem or the message the poet is trying to convey we think of poetry as ‘‘worth nothing and therefore invaluable.’’ Poetry means radical ideas: going against everyone else’s ideas, or bringing new ones to the table. ‘‘The poet a subversive barbarian at the city gates, challenging the status quo.’’ Poetry symbolizes originality. ‘‘The images in a poem should be jamais vu, not déjà vu.’’ Being the first to convey a certain message in a radical way is a way to establish enjoyable poetry.
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