Belle's Brilliant Bits

   Photo by Bruno Brad Barmore  The last line of "Ulysses" by Lord Tennyson “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" Ulysses  is a dramatic monologue reflecting on death and grief. The title of this poem, Ulysses , gives insight that Ulysses never returned home after the fall of Troy. Rather he convinced many of his followers to go out and chase new experiences, like this poem is about. The narrator that we are introduced to tells us as readers that he isn't fit to be a leader. He does what he does for people he doesn't even know, and he sees it as useless. He says he wants to live a life full of different experiences. In line 6, he says that he physically can't rest from travel. He has to keep on moving and seeing new thing. He doesn't want to live a life where he sits around doing nothing. He says later in his poem that his experiences will fade from his memory, but he says he still wants to have experiences. Right before the last line of the p...

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy Photo Credits:  Emma P., journalist d 1. Chapter I "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (Austen 1) a       Chapter 1 of  Pride and Prejudice  opens up with this famous quote. This is a central theme in the novel. We see this unfold in many ways. A lot of the men who are rich propose to a woman which confirms the meaning of this quote. Mr. Collins proposes, Mr. Darcy proposes, and Mr. Bingley proposes. Each of these men were rich in the novel, or they were soon to be rich. They were also all loking for a wife. Some of them proposed to multiple women; if not multiple, then the same woman multiple times. In this time, being a rich man attracted a wife, which is why it says if a man is wealthy, he is looking for a wife.      I think this quote is an excellent way to start the novel because it cleverly expresses the idea that men were look...

 Photo by Bruno van der Kraan on Unsplash  Stanza I & II of "Light Shining out of Darkness" “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sov'reign will." In his poem Light Shining out of Darkness, William Cowper delivers the message that every little thing that God does in our life will follow according to his perfect plan. He starts off the poem saying “God moves in a mysterious way,” God’s ways are so incomprehensible that no one can mimic them. By saying “Of never-failing skill” Cowper tells his readers that His skill will never end. His designs for our life are benefiting His “sov'reign will.” God will always do the things He does according to His purpose and plan for our life. We cannot change His plan to become any better than it already is. God knows best and His will is perfect....