Why do I live? The pictures are as follows:
Why do I live is the preface of Russell's autobiography, written by Bertrand Russell. Russell is one of the most influential philosophers and thinkers in the 2th century. This article is an essay on Russell's thoughts, from which we can get a glimpse of Russell's lofty ideological realm and great personality.
first, analyze the structure of the article.
the structure of the article is clear and simple. There are five natural paragraphs in the full text. The first natural paragraph puts forward a general view: "The desire for love, the pursuit of knowledge and the overwhelming sympathy for human suffering are three pure but extremely strong feelings that dominate my life." . The second, third and fourth paragraphs behind are the explanations of this view respectively. "This is my life, and I think it is worth living", which echoes the beginning and once again shows the firmness of the author's thought.
second, analyze from the language of the article.
The greatest feature of the language of the article is poetic, and the article is full of poetic reverie everywhere. It is embodied in: for example, in the first paragraph, the author compares emotion to a hurricane, "blowing me around at will", concretizing abstract things and inspiring readers' imagination, as if they were on the verge; In the second paragraph, the three parallel sentences of "I seek love" go round and round, which make people feel like poetry.
In the third paragraph, "I want to know why the stars shine, and I try to understand Pythagoras' ideological power", this paper uses metonymic rhetoric to refer to "why the stars shine" as natural science, "Pythagoras' ideological power" as humanistic thought, and the expressions of children, victims and old people in the fourth paragraph, which are quite poetic.