A Kindred Spirit

A Kindred Spirit A Kindred spirit I've found. Soft, gentle eyes of darkest brown betray the torment within. To be alone with you, if only for a moment- to see inside the man who’s dark, haunting, incredibly beautiful poetry, soothes my soul when put to song. To hold him in my arms would feel good- we are two souls, connected, tortured, haunted by the darkness of the world around us. Writing about it, keeps it at bay - his voice, encapsulating the thoughts of us unbalanced ones, that hang by a thin thread - our demons, leashed, kept near enough to pull out and examine and then put away... We’re beautifully broken creatures, covered with miniscule fractures that threaten to form deep fissures and crumble apart, if the balance is leavened. Eyes wide shut, not letting go, tripping over tongues that lie wagging at our feet. Hiding in shadows, stealing away to the darkest corners to avoid…

Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages, was chosen as our second piece for CMEA because of its beauty and the contrast it offers to itself and the set as a whole. The other two pieces are intricate but don’t offer the same contrast or meaning that Kindred Spirits does. Kindred Spirits is the most contrasting piece we have in our CMEA set. Kindred Spirits is unlike any other musical piece. It was written for a memorial concert for the death of two boys, but it was also written for their…

pattern of the set, the second song is usually a ballad. This year, our ballad for the set is Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages. Kindred Spirits was composed for the Browning family after Nicholas Browning had murdered his family on November 1st, 2008. His mother, father and two younger brothers, Gregory and Benjamin, were all shot by Nicholas and passed away. Gregory and Benjamin were both percussionists at their school and their classmates wanted to play a song at their concert in…

The use of perspective in both Raphael’s The School of Athens and Asher Brown Durand’s Kindred Spirits emphasizes the different subjects of each painting and distinguishes between significant and detail oriented additions to the pieces. Although perspective is used to reach a common goal throughout both pieces, each artist relied upon contrasting approaches to the perspective in order to accentuate certain elements of their work. For example, Raphael applies the one-point perspective system to…

The two paintings are similar in the point that they both have implied depth to a certain degree. Raphael uses the figures in his work to give the appearance of distance between them in the foreground and background. Durand uses scenery in the foreground to make the figures seem as if they are farther back in the painting. Raphael uses one-point perspective, while Durand uses aerial perspective. In The School of Athens, the two men in the middle of the entryway in the background of the painting…

Survival becomes the most important thing to her. Butler seems to be saying the same thing regarding the slaves. What will you as a person tolerate in order to survive? Rape? Whipping? Being property? Having your children sold? How much are you willing to take, or do you choose death? These are some of the things that a reader will ponder on when reading Kindred. One key question is does a person adapt to an oppressed lifestyle, or do they rebel against the plantation owners? In the novel,…

The quote from the passage I will be responding to is “The steady companionship of two or three kindred spirits can help us find the courage we need to speak and act as citizens.” and “It is equally true that we spend most of our lives in "tribes" or lifestyle enclaves—and that thinking of the world in terms of "us" and "them" is one of the many limitations of the human mind.” When I read both of these quotes I can’t help but think that they contradict each other. They both share the same idea…

In his Letters to Herodotus, Epicurus’ material outlook assumes that all things are made out of atoms, an argument that he extends to the soul. He raises the point that the soul is material and capable of sensation, and these sensations build out thoughts; however, this assumption tends to categorize human thoughts and limit originality and creativity. In the text, Epicurus explains that the soul is a structure that is material and primarily used for sensation; these sensations become…

the human condition, compelling drastic actions to restore the natural order. In iambic pentameter, blank verse, the uses of prosody conveys the feeling of wretchedness to reveal how unfaithfulness causes unrelenting grief that ultimately destroys well-being. Emphasizing severity, alliteration and consonance in “thou think’st ‘tis much that this contentious storm” focus attention on the brutality experienced in a tempest. Resembling the words of an ungrateful child to a deserving father,…

paper will focus primarily on an exert from A Serious Proposal where Astell’s is concerned with the passions and their influence on truth and wisdom, and looks to provide a way of being that avoids error. In this selection for her paper, Astell argues that wisdom and truth is only attainable through attention and examination, separate from the world. She demonstrates this by discussing the mind and body, in particular how the conditions of the mind propagate error and the effects of the…