Compare And Contrast Sacrifice And Ben Jonson
Iris Morales
Mrs. Page
ENGL 2322.701
20, October 2014
Sacrifice, Grief and Hope Every single human being through the course of their life will go through times in which they will be faced with difficulties in that their faith and actions are to be tested. Most importantly when human beings are attacked with struggles in their lifetime many things tend to happen after that. For example, one can go from positive to negative, or vice versa; also one can live and make mistakes or learn to live from their mistakes. Pieces of poetry in which what was mentioned previously have similar instances are “The Wanderer” who’s author is anonymous but was probably composed in the Anglo-Saxon time period, and Ben Jonson’s, “On My First Son” which takes place around the 1600s. Both pieces of poetry deal with the passing of human life, which in other words means that we must all die eventually at some point in time, and they do that in elegies. In the first piece of poetry it starts out with the narrator:
“Often the wanderer pleads pity And mercy from the Lord; but for a long time, Sad in mind, he must dip his oars into icy waters, the lanes of the sea; He must follow the paths of exile: fate is inflexible” (The …show more content…
This particular poem is shorter, yet it is rich in emotion and deep feelings of grief from the father to his son. As the poem begins the reader can make note on how much Benjamin (the son) means to his father, “Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy” (On My First Son 1-2) The dramatic situation here is that Benjamin was his father’s right hand the favorite child to be more precise. His son meant everything to him and if Benjamin would’ve still been alive it seems like he would be the next one to have taken charge in the family, and make his father
Mrs. Page
ENGL 2322.701
20, October 2014
Sacrifice, Grief and Hope Every single human being through the course of their life will go through times in which they will be faced with difficulties in that their faith and actions are to be tested. Most importantly when human beings are attacked with struggles in their lifetime many things tend to happen after that. For example, one can go from positive to negative, or vice versa; also one can live and make mistakes or learn to live from their mistakes. Pieces of poetry in which what was mentioned previously have similar instances are “The Wanderer” who’s author is anonymous but was probably composed in the Anglo-Saxon time period, and Ben Jonson’s, “On My First Son” which takes place around the 1600s. Both pieces of poetry deal with the passing of human life, which in other words means that we must all die eventually at some point in time, and they do that in elegies. In the first piece of poetry it starts out with the narrator:
“Often the wanderer pleads pity And mercy from the Lord; but for a long time, Sad in mind, he must dip his oars into icy waters, the lanes of the sea; He must follow the paths of exile: fate is inflexible” (The …show more content…
This particular poem is shorter, yet it is rich in emotion and deep feelings of grief from the father to his son. As the poem begins the reader can make note on how much Benjamin (the son) means to his father, “Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; my sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy” (On My First Son 1-2) The dramatic situation here is that Benjamin was his father’s right hand the favorite child to be more precise. His son meant everything to him and if Benjamin would’ve still been alive it seems like he would be the next one to have taken charge in the family, and make his father