The nothingness and 'sublime vacancy' looms large through his poetry. This poem 'Lights Out' was written by Edward Thomas after he had been encouraged to meet with an American poet in 1913 named Robert Frost. He had been affected by depression and melancholy, this poem was written about two things – sleep and death. In the first stanza, Thomas talks about the coming of sleep or the 'borders of sleep'. The forest that is mentioned in line three refers to sleep making us lose our way and having very little control as sleep takes over us.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
A feeling of desolation was presented here when Hurst implied that summer was born with great promise that eventually evanesced without being fulfilled. Another emotion stirred up by the two phrases was a slow passage of time that seemed to go on forever. This was revealed by seasons that had ended without the next one coming. When James Hurst wrote the starting paragraphs of his short stories, he added in death. "Graveyard flowers who spoke softly of the names of the dead," written in "The Scarlet Ibis," hinted that there was a nearby graveyard filled with deadly air.
Whitney Comp 2 31 March 2012 Explication of “The Raven” “The Raven” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in the mid 1800s. The poem was written about a man having difficulties dealing with the death of his lover, Lenore. “The Raven”, is a mysterious poem that has a cold setting, symbols, auditory imagery, unusual rhyming style, and a calm but weird mood. Through the eighteen stanzas, the first stanza sets the scene. It is a late December night the last moment of the final month of the year, and the weather is depressing.
The selection of the verb ‘feel’ highlights the sense of loss; in this context the idea of feeling is essentially intangible and serves to emphasis the loneliness and perhaps, haunting effect, felt by the author. The verb ‘sleeping’ makes the idea of death seem natural, thus that the death was too due to natural causes and perhaps expected. The use of enjambment emphasises the idea of time passing. But it also provides a sense of haunting as the author feels
Tuesday’s with Morrie essay In Tuesday’s with Morrie, Mitch albom uses symbolism to relate to the theme of life through the use of a pink hibiscus plant. The pink hibiscus is a metaphor for Morrie’s life at a time when he is dying from ALS. Morrie’s body slowly falls apart and so does the hibiscus plant. This use of symbolism is an effective way for the author to express the deterioration of morries life. Every day that morrie slowly deteriorates so does the hibiscus plant.
A deceased soldier is moved out into the sun in a desperate vain hope that the warmth of the sun will revive him. The futility of this act depicts the desperation of his companions turning from grief to despairing rage. Death is final. Nothing can bring back the dead, not even the life giving sun. The structure of the poem also takes us through the poet's responses to death.
Autumn, in literature, frequently symbolizes the weakening of life. Fall is a melancholy time of dryness and crumbling decay, much like Gatsby when he loses Daisy for a second and final time. Also, when a dream dies, many deaths are sure to follow. Gatsby’s death was foreshadowed when his dream – the American Dream that he clung to for all his young adult life – was shattered. He died along with his hopes.
To start off, Shakespeare compares his progressing age to the passing of a day in the second quatrain. His life is slowly fading away like the light of the sun “fadeth in the west” (6). Once the sun sets, it becomes dark and then it is time to sleep. But for Shakespeare, the “black night” (7) is the time when “death’s second self” (8) will come and take away his sleep, and ultimately extinguishing the last few minutes of his life. Secondly, the author metaphorically compares his aging body to autumn in the first quatrain: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Acceptance The theme of the poem acceptance is accepting thing that you cannot control such as the sky becoming dark or knowing that everyone in the world is going to die eventually. The poet uses nature as an example which is in comparison to human or his life. Ghost House The poem ghost house written by Robert Frost conveys us the theme of a persona reuniting with a house he use to know, but is now gone. This is trying to represent the personas family or loved ones that once lived here and in which they no longer do. Stopping by the wood in a snowy evening.