The past is a recurring theme in Thomas’ poetry. He feared the changes England was undergoing, both physical, as in ‘As the Team’s Head Brass,’ and social, seen in ‘Aspens’. His poetry often celebrates an England that is passing; a theme expressed in ‘Gone, gone again’. The past is the subject of the title and the opening line; the speaker is looks back on his life with feelings of regret and sorrow. Thomas gives the sense that a significant portion of time has passed by quickly with the repetition of the words "gone" and "again“.
This gloomy atmosphere is influenced by Orwell’s current state of depression, as he has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and he is still recovering from his wife’s death. The melancholy setting of the novel commences from the first page of the novel where it was a “…cold day in April, …vile wind…a swirl of gritty dust… The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.” The super-country of Oceania is constantly at war, and bomb explosions are abundant. The living conditions for the outer party are very poor, most buildings are rundown, the food is almost artificial and rationed out. The disgruntled setting of the novel is predominantly influenced by Orwell’s sickness and the current state of global disarray. The characters of Nineteen Eighty-Four enable the reader to observe the harsh
The emotion that probably weights the most on these men is fear. This fear comes from many sources. The men are constantly haunted by the fear that they may die. Ted Lavender’s death and how the men react to it show it is impact on the soldiers. Kiowa expresses the sense of weight that the threat of death has on the men when he describes Labander’s death, “Boom Down, he said.
1 Explore how Steinbeck develops the theme of loneliness in Of mice and Men. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck expresses the theme of loneliness through key characters throughout the novel. Steinbeck leaves the message that loneliness is an everpresent problem for people in that time frame and ultimately, people of the present day. In the novel, some of the key characters this message is shown through is Candy, Curleys wife, Lennie and Crooks. Candy is lonely because of his old age although it is somewhat helped by the fact he has a dog but as we know, he is left high and dry after the residents of the bunkhouse choose to eradicate it for it was in pain and also smelling.
Kirk Bauer English I Section 3287 Diane Mannone 11/22/09 Cannery Row – Materialism vs. Harmony In the novel Cannery Row, author John Steinbeck comments continually throughout the book on how the pursuit of materialism is almost always the cause of disharmony. Taking place so close to the disaster of the Great Depression, the book explores an area of life that was still sensitive to many people. The tone of the book reflects the opinion that pursuing material things leads to unhappiness and problems while the vagrant life frees one of those desires and the pain of loss when life takes them away. There are examples from both the economic and the natural worlds as the natural world represents the furthest extreme from the capitalist
His father is tired of drawing buildings like a civil engineer, while her mother is sick of pacing, her insomnia, and writing letters to find her son. The constant repetition of these tasks underlines their complete loss of hope. They are torn between two worlds and identities. Instead of letting go, they continue to live in past due to the tragic reminder of the loss of their son
The workers are also wounded continuously and the town’s people have come to fear the sound of the horn as it means that their loved ones could be dead or gravely injured. The fate of coal miners is sealed to a condemned life because they either die while on the job or they eventually die because of the physical conditions of the pit. The scene that demonstrates the latter is at the end of the film when Margaret’s grandfather is having trouble breathing but the horn sounds and
T.S Eliot’s poem “Rhapsody on A Windy Night” explores the ideas of life and death thoroughly. Eliot constantly refers to the idea of time, never having enough due to the impending death waiting for us all. The line between life and death becomes blurred as Eliot constantly degrades the value and pleasure of life, the ideas that are presented of both life and death seem to be comparative to one other. In “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”, the idea of constantly passing time is used to explore the constant and the inevitable death waiting at the end of life. Reflecting on his life and memories, the persona is continually influenced by the presence of time.
Those feelings of sadness, anger, and loneliness that the narrator feels had started to gradually turn into madness as the days went by. In the end of the story everything goes wrong. The house of Usher falls and crumbles to the ground. The Fall of the House of Usher holds the tale, how one man struggles losing his loved ones from Tuberculosis and shows Gothicism. When the narrator is riding towards the house, he suddenly gets these feelings that he did not enjoy.
How society and the family in the story handled the situation was surprising. There are moments in the story of cruel and unsympathetic towards the angel. Marquez shows us how the old man with wings had to go through hardships because of society and their expectations. The scenery place where the old man landed really expressed how the short story was told. For example the story started off by saying that do to the rain Pelayo had “killed so many crabs” because his new born was sick of the stench the crabs had created in the air.