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The reality, Svendsen says, is that boredom is actually not such a bad thing after all. “The state of boredom creates a space in which you could and should relate to yourself. Because outer ...
Many try to avoid boredom, but it serves a purpose. A cognitive neuroscientist explains why people get bored and how to turn boredom into a motivational jump-start. Feeling bored has a purpose.
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
"An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined in Chichester Cathedral .
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
The poem is one of five surviving poems by Sappho which is about "the power of love". [8] It expresses the speaker's desire for the absent Anactoria, [ 9 ] praising her beauty. [ 4 ] This encomium follows the poet making the broader point that the most beautiful thing to any person is whatever they love the most; an argument that Sappho ...
"Pass this love on, he’d say. It knows how to bend and will never break. It’s the only thing with a give and take. The more it’s used the more it makes."
The poem begins with an octave where the speaker states that love does not possess the power to heal or save things, and concludes with a sestet of the speaker saying that even though she may face hardships, she would not trade love for food or peace. This poem is often lauded as one of her most successful works in the Fatal Interview sequence. [5]