Within the short story "The Painted Door" Ann shows that she experiences feelings of depression, and isolation. Ann's negative mood is apparent through the story and can be seen at any time during the story. Ann's husband is named John and through the story she says many sarcastic and condescending comments, "plenty of wood to keep me warm - what more could a women ask for" (Ross 288). It is clear that Ann is unhappy with John and not satisfied with him. She does not want John to go to his father's house to check on him because she does not want to be left alone in the house when there is a snowstorm is taking place outside.
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
On the other hand, Slessor’s poem “William Street” challenges the readers by attributing beauty to the urban setting of the city streets. The poem “Harbour Dusk” conveys sadness and demise that an individual can experience due to place. The persona
In "The Hunchback in the Park" the writer directly tells us that the character is lonely and doesn't have anyone that loves him because of his appearance and this is shown by saying ' A woman figure without fault Straight as a young elm Straight and tall from his crooked bones That she might stand in the night After the locks and chains'. In the previous sentence the idea of loneliness is emphasized by the conditional tense which suggest the insecurity of the character towards the girl because he doesn't know whether she's going to accept him or not. The absence of punctuation and irregular, inconsistent rhyme in the whole poem could also reflect a lack of stability in the life of the "hunchback". Either of the poems show that the characters are isolated from the society but this isolation is due to different reason, for the first poem the segregation is due to an accident that has caused Alison's head injury whilst in the second poem the loneliness is due to a native reason that cannot be changed. Both poems
However, whilst it can be argued that the narrator’s dislike for the “sloven season” is as a result of the affect it has on her mentally, it can also be interpreted to affect her heart, as it is in reference to her “lover” who is “unbalancing the air”. It is suggested that love makes the narrator feel uncomfortable due to her not having full control. The fear of a particular time of day/year is also shown in Hughes’ ‘Wind’ in which night is shown to evoke fear. The narrator describes the woods to be “crashing through the darkness”. The use of onomatopoeia creates shock and fear within the narrator due to the harsh effects the wind is having on the “woods”; this is also evident through the use of “booming”.
How has T. S. Eliot utilised specific elements of his form to engage varying audiences intellectually and emotionally? T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ explore the self-consciousness caused by the intense pessimism of a toxic urban world, which leads to passivity and a lack of agency. Eliot uses varying elements of the form of poetry to present the major concepts of his modernist context, the conflict between the individual and society, disempowerment and time and the ritualistic nature of life, which also allow him to intellectually and emotionally engage a present day audience. Eliot portrays life as tarnished through urban decay, which is typical of the modernist era.
Susan Hill conveys the theme of isolation through numerous aspects throughout the novel, this essay will overview and analyse these themes. A classic element to any ghost story is the recurrent conspiracy of silence, although not as scary atmosphere as later Arthur is condemned to a blunt silence upon triggering his haunting memories of his ghostly tale. A contrast is shown when he is previously feels a peaceful cheery family atmosphere until he resorts to feeling "an outsider to the circle". Helping the rear to pitch the situation more, with the noun "outsider" heightening his uncomfortable feel of isolation. Later on in the chapter his conditions worsen upon Edmund awaiting his father's turn.
When in London because of the smog you can’t see anything so you feel trapped and confined like in Eel Marsh House, Kipps calls it ‘like a game of blind man’s buff’, this shows how Kipps feels about having his senses trapped and locked out. ‘what figures I could make out...were like ghost figures’ as the fog blinds and the setting is glum and doom this again refers back to how Kipps is a realistic man and doesn’t believe in ghosts so uses this example as if ghosts were not real, Hill also uses the technique of foreshadowing to refer what happens later in the novel. This also relates to how Kipps is feeling when referring back to the thought of the Woman in Black appearing when he visited Crythin Gifford. Pathetic Fallacy also sets the setting of a normal day in London, and how the ‘the miserable weather and lowering to the spirits in the dreariest month of the year’, when Hill refers to the weather using pathetic fallacy she creates the mood to be very miserable and upsetting, like there is no positive side to Crythin Gifford. ‘Dreariest month of the year’ suggests that the town is quite dreary and is like how the houses and people of the town are seen.
Though showing to much emotion is almost always looked down upon not being able to express any emotion can have serous negative effects on ones wellbeing. Like in the story The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is forced to stay at her husbands summer home and spend time alone in attempt help cure her form her state of depression. While there she is not aloud to write or do any actives this slowly starts to have a negative effect on her mental health. She becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is behind the yellow wallpaper that is in her jail she calls her room. This continues after multiple attempts to tell her husband that she is uncomfortable with the yellow wallpaper.
The tone is melancholy and is rings of sadness and boredom. The lines “our trim ship was speeding toward the siren’s island, driven by the brisk wind.” are rather dark because a brisk wind implies that the air was cold and coldness is associated with death. Also in the “Odyssey” there is a hint of sorrow when Odysseus could not satisfy his heart fully with the siren song, obviously for the better, “So they sent their ravishing voices out across the air and the heart inside me throbbed to listen longer”. In Atwood’s poem, the lines, “This song is a cry for help: Help me! Only you, only you can, you are unique as last.” Convey sadness for the siren who is portrayed as a involuntary prisoner on this island.