In his stories Ms. Found in a bottle and The oblong box, Poe chooses to present nature as something dark and evil. In Ms. Found in a bottle the calm, depressing weather foreshadows a disaster. Mother Nature really showed the best of herself in this short story. The horrific whirlpool is described as a black hole that will suck and destroy anything that comes on its way. “--Oh, horror upon horror!
Roethke uses a somber tone in order to display the somberness that life’s hardships present. The image of a morbid cellar is used in order to display the hardships of life. This cellar is “dank as a ditch” filled with “mildewed crates.” “A congress of stinks” filled the cellar. The somber tone is gathered and felt through the diction. Words like broke, dark, drooped, lolling, mildewed, evil, dank, etc indicate that the speaker is overall dissatisfied with this morbid root cellar.
It is cold and dark adding a negative effect. But as the story moves along, the setting changes; the protagonist discovers an odd man with a lantern who leads him to a professor. When he gets to his masters house, the place itself is quite gothic; “heavily studded with iron nails, like the door of a prison”. This description gives off quite a grim vibe- it’s as if the protagonist cannot escape and maybe like this is the end. The ‘iron nails’ makes you think of coffin lid when it is nailed down-it makes him seem like this place is inescapable; this place is where he is destined to be.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” was written in 1839. The gothic horror story has a psychological element and arguable symbols that have given rise to many critical readings. It can be viewed literally or metaphorically. The collapsing of the house down into the tarn symbolizes the ultimate collapse of the Usher family. In Poe’s short story, symbolism is the mechanism used to create understanding, images in order to establish mood, and reason to the story.
Heather Harris English III Mr. Reeves 31 March 2011 Roderick and His House Edgar Allan Poe is the master of the macabre. His stories are well-remembered for the images of darkness and death they all contain. As a romantic writer, Poe focuses on the emotion and the imagination of dismal situations. In his short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe personifies the dark decaying “Usher” house as a manifestation of the deteriorating mental, physical, and emotional state of Roderick himself. The story begins with a striking example of personification as the narrator comes upon the “Usher” house.
“I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body:” The hawk’s arrogance is shown clearly throughout the play. Several lines refer to its belief of being above all else. It does what it wants without consequence, it believes there is no higher power to stop it. The hawk owns life, it’s own and any others it so wishes to take.
Highwayman assessment At the beginning of the poem, the mood is gloomy, mysterious and incomprehensible. The poet creates this by using metaphors such as, ‘the wind was a torrent of darkness’ and ‘the moon was a ghostly galleon. The poet describes colour when he says, ‘a coat of the claret velvet’ and he also describes colour when he says, ‘breeches of brown doe skin’. The poet uses repetition when he says, ‘The Highwayman came riding-riding-riding- The Highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.’ This has an effect on the reader as it emphasises the movement of the highwayman. This affects the reader as it adds to the tension.
Summary: From the beginning of the text, George Orwell's "Nineteen eighty-four" is portrayed as a dystopia in which the protagonist, Winston resides in. The ugliness of the dystopia in which they live in is suggested from the first paragraph. The world in the text, "The Matrix" is portrayed as far from perfect with the bleak, dark atmosphere presented within the first few minutes of the film. In contrast, the `real' world is not all that better, with humans forced to hide underground like hunted animals, adding to the dark, dingy feel that is presented through the text. Dystopian Worlds From the beginning of the text, George Orwell's "Nineteen eighty-four" is portrayed as a dystopia in which the protagonist, Winston resides in.
Brian Barros Mrs. Neshan English 3 19 September 2014 Washington Irving Mood Analysis Washington Irving is a very mysterious and suspenseful writer as is evident in “The Devil and Tom Walker” and in “Sleep Hollow.” In both stories Irving writes with a very gloomy, melancholy mood. Most of his stories are mystifying, infused with a bit of horror and fantasy. Irving uses elaborate language in his work to make the stories mood seem extremely dark and eerie. In the excerpt of Sleepy Hollow you can infer the movie will be very mysterious and dark. In the beginning it shows Ichabod Crane riding his horse threw a foggy, ominous forest, similar to the one described in “The Devil and Tom Walker.” When reading Irving’s story and reading all the adjectives he uses to describe the setting, it makes you think of a place as you see in Sleepy Hollow.
Deonte’ Thomas Nimi Finnigan Introduction to Poetry 2305 28 February 2012 In a Dark Time Reflection The poem “A dark Time” By Theodore Roethke was written in 1964. The poem is filled with darkness and vivid imagery portraying the madness that one can come in contact with during a life time. The author describes to us the passage he takes to finding himself in a time of “pure despair” (Roethke line9). Theodore Roethke takes us on a journey through the characters life using nature and darkness possibly depicting the overcoming of depression as he finds himself. Throughout the poem Roethke uses Nature to illustrate an overall image of darkness.