In fact they accept the darkness and just live with it not fighting it off. Within the poems, Dickinson and Frost utilize imagery, metaphors, and verse form to show the reader how darkness applies to their life and how the poems differ from one another. When starting their poems, the authors do so oppositely. Dickinson means for her words to be taken literally, while Keats begins metaphorical. When Dickinson says “We grow accustomed to the Dark- When Light is put away,” (line1-2) with her imagery, she is describing how human bodies literally adjust to little light.
MacCaig then switches from morning to night and his opinion of the city takes a turn. ‘Uncivilized darkness’ suggests to us that he doesn’t like the night, darkness is usually associated with uncertainty and evil. Finally he ends the first verse by taking about all the small lights you can see from the skyscrapers. This contrasts against the darkness he previously mentioned. In verse two he continues with the theme of darkness by saying, ‘midnight is so not so easily defeated’ referring to the lights from the windows.
Darkness In the book Beautiful Darkness, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stoni say, “It’s not easy to be Light when you’ve been Dark. It’s almost too much to ask anyone.” Once a person has been exposed to darkness, it is difficult to go into the light. The darkness is compelling to people, despite the negative effects of it. For example, in The Devil in the White City and In Cold Blood, authors Erik Larson and Truman Capote demonstrate the idea that man is compelled to the darkness. In both of the books, setting and characterization is used to show the attractive nature of darkness.
The novel's title provides immediate and ominous foreshadowing. Of Mice and Men is taken from a line of poetry from Robert Burns, who wrote, "The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry." Therefore, before the story even gets fully underway, it is clear that George and Lennie's plans of having their own place in the world will go unfulfilled. The title also hints that George's plans of protecting Lennie are doomed to go awry. [wrong] Several events of first chapter foreshadow doom.
The first verse suggests a departure from life, metaphorically beginning a journey across a cemetery. Many metaphors are used in the first part of this poem such as the “Ivy” being man. The Ivy kind of represents a hero, mainly because it goes through three stages in this poem, departure, fulfillment, and return. In this stage the departure the Ivy is very lonely beginning his journey. Dickens reveals that he’s very lonely by using personification in telling us “in his cell so lone and cold” (L-4) and “the wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, to pleasure his dainty whim” (L-5,6.)
At first, the image is one of stillness, harmony, yet there is an edge of suspense as the language evokes a world dominated by dark colors, water, sorrow and sleep. "The grain of his wrists/is like bog oak" begins a list like description of the exhibit, for this victim is not a victim but a work of art. There is no commentary on these images, human feeling and empathy are noticeably absent, leaving just an attempt to accurately define the beautiful horror the viewer seems to see. The body has been established as art, and the viewer describes it as such. There is less myth-making, the terror here, unlike Tollund Man, comes as the peaceful image of sleep is turned into a fearful picture of violent death.
Setting is very important in this novel because it is a ghost story, the setting is used to create atmosphere, if it is at night or frighting it can create a terrifying atmosphere which is essential for a ghost story. In the setting of “A London particular” Hill uses a lot of pathetic fallacy to do with the fog to create a sense of foreboding. This chapter is also important because it is when Arthur receives instructions to sort out Mrs. Drablow's papers. It was a dull day, very foggy as it says it was “the thickest of London peasoupers” which is called that because the fog is a yellow colour because of factory pollution. The description of this London fog is an allusion to Charles Dickens, “A Christmas carol”, a particularly famous ghost story, and also other Victorian novels.
Lennie expecting and eager for George to give him more hell does not get the answer he expects because George knows that he is about to end Lennies life. He wants to end Lennie’s life on a better not. The repetition of that phrase especially using that word enhances the mood of this scene because it creates the uneasy scary feeling that Steinbeck wants you to feel. Throughout the duration of this book its author John Steinbeck used dictation and repetition of phrases to enhance the mood of his novel. This book conveys a mood of sadness and hope at the same time; towards the end it conveys a fearful mood as Lennies life came to an end.
The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem. Although Emma is now dead, Hardy see’s her “phantom figure” remaining on forever on that hillside. Hardy compares the event they shared with his estranged to his present life without her. Repetition is used to
He begins writing at night, a time when darkness will match his mood. The night sky filled withstars offers him no comfort since they "are blue and shiver." Their distance from him reinforcesthe fact that he is alone. However, he can appreciate the night wind that "sings" as his verseswill, describing the woman he loved. Lines 5–10 Neruda repeats the first line in the fifth and follows it with a declaration of the speaker’s love for an unnamed woman.