Just like in her other poems she gives the reader this magical but horrifying image of the death while giving a great insight of it at the same time. To my understanding in “I heard a fly buzzed” poem Dickinson talks about a silent, painless death and how that person sees it while taking his or her last breath. The dying person hears a fly buzz. Which is I think is pretty much similar to saying a death has arrived and its waiting in the door step. I get the image I have seen many times in movies and such where vultures circling around and waiting for their prey to die out of dehydration.
The next item of melancholy that Poe uses are in the lines, “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;” The speaker is now to a very frightened state, not knowing what keeps knocking on his door. This puts the reader into a questioning unease state. Through the alliteration Poe is putting the reader wondering what exactly is going on and want to continue reading the poem through melancholy understand what exactly could be knocking on the door. When
He wants to end all the pain and grief that his father's death brought upon him. But then again, he might just be saying all this because he knows that Polonius and Claudius are listening in. But in fact, nobody will ever know if Hamlet’s intentions to commit suicide were in any way, shape, or form true. Shakespeare carefully manipulates his language with abundant detail and imagery to illustrate the development of Hamlet's mind in this famous speech. After Hamlet makes this shocking announcement, Hamlet goes into a dreamlike world producing many images such as “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea
It is through over ambition and guilt that leads to a progression of loneliness throughout the play until the climatic point of his downfall being his death. He rides into battle companionless being labelled a ‘dead butcher’ by associates who were once friends which have now left to join Malcolm and the English army. The only soldiers left to ride into battle with him now does so through duty not honour or love which, exemplifies his social loneliness by the end of the play; showing the effect of his excessive ambition and greed for power. This explicitly shows that this Gothic text leaves us with the chief impression of the loneliness of the protagonist. To support the latter further, Shakespeare’s character Macbeth even admits himself that ‘which should accompany old age as honour and love, obedience troops of friends I must not look to have’ illustrating that to accomplish his goal of King he must do it alone intrinsically showing his loneliness without support of ‘troops and friends’ due to undergoing atrocious acts such as regicide.
The dank tarn at his feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher. Another is the “house” or the family being destroyed because of the two remaining family members. The narrator knows that only one person from each generation has survived in the Usher family. Madeline, Roderick’s sister, is the only member that survives with him. Roderick’s behavior is insane and the narrator tries to bring him back to normal by reading him poems by Sir Launce lot Canning, Roderick is obsessed with these poems.
Similarly, the attempt by the narrator to arrest M. Ernest Valdemar at the point of death in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" only causes the consumptive patient to die and have his body gruesomely dissolve into a putrid puddle. However, the main character development of the narrator of "MS. Found in a Bottle" is that he learns to accept his impending death and replace his fear with anticipation. Insanity versus rationality In many of Poe's short stories, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrators are madmen and murderers who fail to disguise their lack of rationality with a discussion of their thought processes. However, their stories inevitably reveal gaps in their chains of thought that speak to their descent into immorality and selfishness. In many cases, insanity is interlocked with the narrators' emotional egotism; they are incapable of empathizing with others and think only of their own desire to satisfy their honor or their need to end the disruptions to their lives.
The reader is also left ponder the fear of death, dying, and how one person has the ability to kill another. This being common for Poe, this story, along with others, is saturated with sadness and a sense of mourning. Poe is able to create a chilling atmosphere just by his vocabulary use alone. Along with that, he uses sentence structures that help to build on to the sentence
After the spirit leaves , Hamlet doubts whether the ghost speaks the truth , Upon leaving Hamlet says: “The time is out of joint. Oh cursed spirit That I was ever born to set it right ” (Act -1 , Scene-5 ) These lines illustrate that Hamlet is upset that he must revenge his father’s death , while questioning the ghost’s integrity . This is Hamlet first moment of indecision . He is plagued by question of death and the supernatural. What do we know about ghost?
In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, a young prince finds himself in a most peculiar and unsettling situation. His father, the king of Denmark, has been slain; his mother has married his uncle and has given away the thrown; and the ghost of Hamlet’s father has instructed Hamlet to seek revenge. Hamlet is fueled by his quest to fulfill the ghost’s task, but he often finds himself unable to take action. This major character flaw is highlighted by Hamlet’s seven soliloquies. From the start of the play Hamlet mourns his father’s death and is in stasis.
The fly is symbolic in the story because it represents how the Boss battle’s with grief. In the beginning of the story, it is learned that the Boss is quite delicate especially around the subject of his son’s death. Anytime Woodifield starts to talk about how their son’s graves are near each other, “… the boss made no reply. Only a quiver in his eyelids showed that he heard” (Echoes 12, 275). As it is well known, a fly is quite delicate and struggles the same way that the Boss is struggling with the emotional grief of his sons passing.