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"Futility" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most renowned poets of World War I. The poem was written in May 1918 and published as no. 153 in The Complete Poems and Fragments . The poem is well known for its departure from Owen's famous style of including disturbing and graphic images in his work; the poem instead has a more ...
Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson, first published in 1898. It was revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg .
Futility or Futile may refer to: Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, an 1898 novel "Futility" (poem), 1918 poem by Wilfred Owen; Futile, a 2003 EP album by Porcupine Tree; Futility, a 2004 album of the industrial death metal band DÅÅTH; Futility, a 1922 novel by William Gerhardie
The Dialogue of Pessimism is an ancient Mesopotamian literary composition in the form of a dialogue between a master and his slave. Its interpretations have varied, but it is generally considered an unusual text which thematises the futility of human action.
Philosophy of Futility and Retail Therapy: Shopping in order to make oneself feel happier is a symptom that is referred to as “ retail therapy ” in the popular press. The term was first used in the Chicago Tribune of December 24, 1986: "We've become a nation measuring out our lives in shopping bags and nursing our psychic ills through ...
William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977) [1] was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright. His first novel, Futility (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda. Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature [1] and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.