However, the word “vacant” shows emptiness and lifelessness. This gives the whole story a melancholy effect. In the Phantom Coach, the story is set in the isolated English moorlands, where our protagonist can be found bird shooting. It begins to snow to worsen and the night begins to fall upon him; “with the first feathery flakes of a coming snowstorm just fluttering down upon the heather”. It is cold and dark adding a negative effect.
This early isolation from his family prepares us for later on in the book when he will be truly alone. The Journey North first signals the general loneliness. The empty carriages on a mysterious road to nowhere negating a feel of derelictness and neglect to make it seem unloved. To contrast how Arthur is the only person optimistic about Crythin. Being given it's own unique persona to this ghost-story recurrent steam train with its unpleasant sense of isolation and being described as "trapped in a cold tomb".
They also notice "the gloomy curve of the moor" and "the jagged and sinister hills" in the distance. When Sir Charles and Watson arrive at Baskerville Hall, they think it is very gloomy, with its iron gates, the ruined stone lodge, and the long drive with dark trees hanging over it. The Hall has two Gothic looking towers, which are covered with ivy, and inside, the main parlor is darkly paneled. The dining room is also very dreary, and is decorated with intimidating portraits of stern ancestors. In the night there are frightening sounds.
I’m lonely in a dark concealed room, covered in someone or something’s blood splatter. All I can smell is dust and death, I witnessed, I saw, I know. Everything is silent, not even a mouse creeping, no life at all. My heart was experiencing an adrenalin rush, I could hear the sound of my own breathing. Whoever he is, he’s got me.
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” Through the word choice in the poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” the poet, Walt Whitman, leads the reader to believe that the poem reveals a man searching for his purpose in life. It begins with the first line repeating the title of the poem, reminding you what the poem is going to be about. It continues with the narrator marking “where on a little promontory it stood isolated”, creating a picture of a spider sitting alone in a high place, symbolizing it’s inferiority to everything else. The narrator then “marked how to explore the vacant cast surrounding” which expresses negative emotion with the use of the words “vacant” and “vast”. In the following line the reader gets the imagery of the spider launching “forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself” such as, in a literal sense, spinning a web.
The Poem “Evening Hawk”, written by Robert Penn Warren, uses a particular style to describe the passage of time. He uses many adjectives that refer to darkness and lightness. This image of dark and light reflects the progress of time through the presence or absence of the hawk, which represents the devastating force of time. The first stanza opens up with the image of light. “Geometries and orchis that the sunset blinds” is quickly turned to darkness as the hawk appears “out of the peak’s black angularity of shadow.” The Hawk, a destructive force in the poem, is portrayed as the destroyer of time.
Boy at the Window Loneliness is like a cold winter day. Loneliness IS a cold winter day. A cold winter day is a dark, grainy day. It is the kind of day you’d imagine if you were by yourself and all alone. “Boy at the Window” is the kind of poem that takes place on such days.
English Essay - Of Mice and Men In this essay i will write about how Steinbeck uses the recurring theme of loneliness throughout the novel 'Of Mice and Men ' . I shall write about the different characters in the novel and how they have this one trait in common , Candy , Crooks ,Curley's wife and George are all effected by loneliness and is shown as a destructive force . I will also write about how the setting represents loneliness by the language that Steinbeck uses to create effect . In the novel we find out that Crooks is very lonely and isolated because he is different than other people. He is ignored by everyone on the ranch because he is black , this makes his character bitter and mean"Books ain't no good .
Inviting Lennie inside his room depicts Crooks’ desire for company. Loneliness even had several characters from Of Mice and Men confessing their deep solitude to strangers revealing their desperation. Overall various types of consequences are left behind due to loneliness being a challenge to divert
“The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry.”-Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian. Bradbury uses the darkness of the setting to transcribe what the theme of the story is about. Humans to are becoming dark, moving into the dark ages. “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.”-Ray Bradbury. The author is using the eerie setting of the night life that should be fully of social interaction, and demonstrates it to show how easily the whole society can abuse it with the content inactivity of the brain that this creates.