Thin Beautiful or Lethal

Melissa Cohen In American Society today, thin equals beautiful. American women are judged by the way they look. It can define who they are as people. {Who they are or how they see themselves?] To get ahead in this world you have to look the "right" way. [Why? Too cliché.] The standard of what women should look like is very clearly put to them. It is posted on billboards, in the magazines …

…world left behind, in his meditation in Nightingale on lyric as pure, spontaneous, nonrepresentational melodious evocative of rich sensations. (390) Keats discusses escaping reality through the use of imagination and the senses. John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" is a romantic ode of eight stanzas discussing his need to be free from the realities of his life. The first and second stanzas show Keats' inner soul dying from depression as his body dies from the tuberculosis.