Traveling Through the Dark By: William Stafford "Traveling through the Dark" by: William Stafford is the most popular and frequently anthologized single poem he has written. It presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather depressing instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. In its broadest outline it reiterates the theme of confrontation between technology and wilderness, one which leads to danger in the end. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen as something invasive and harmful in this poem. The poem is a narrative description of the poet's halt along a road at night leading to his discovery of a doe, victim of an earlier collision with another automobile.
Out of the supplementary of works Poe had written, I personally had found his poem “The Raven” uniquely interesting because it closely expresses the devastation that Poe went through throughout his life. In the poem, the narrator who we never are told a name, is obviously troubled. The narrator, sitting alone, is greeted by a raven that he sees not just as a measly bird, but more than that. He feels that he has just come in contact with a higher power, another entity trying to contact him. The narrator, who was suffering from the loss of Lenore, seemed to manifest this bird into a spiritual being.
With his use of diction, Hawthorne firmly establishes the tone of sadness in the novel. He chooses to use words such as darkening close, crime, gloomy, darker aspect, unsightly, frailty, and sorrow, which helps accomplish the dreariness in the tone. Even with the title of the first chapter being “The Prison Door”, Hawthorne immediately indicates punishment as a result of strict conformity. His diction has emphasis on darkness, which is a result of the rigidity of puritan society. The darkness, in turn, causes sadness among the people of the society, which Hawthorne indicates in his diction.
He says Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ Those words ‘the night’, ‘blue’ ‘shiver’ and ‘distance’ create a scenery of depressed, cold ,night, imagery that matches his mood as he begin writing. In addition, the personification of stars as blue and shivering shows that the speaker was the one who is in pain as blue and shivering from recalling the past relationship with his love in the distance. In the second stanza, the speaker’s loneliness internal states as after his lost love as a theme was leaded mostly by use of personified image of nature. Neruda repeats the first line, ’Tonight I can write the saddest lines’ in the fifth again. The repetition emphasizes important fact that the speaker is still in pain of remembering his memory of love in the past although now he is in the distance from it.
In it the idea of a traditional ghost story is suggested which shows us forewarning for the rest of the novel. A ghost story relies on atmosphere, often shown through weather and the gothic genre. The weather is a huge signal throughout the novel, which is used as a signal to when terrible things are about to happen. For example, the nine lives causeway is described as ‘submerged and untraceable’, this suggests that Eel Marsh house is miserable and that everything is hidden. From this the reader can see that Susan Hill has explored the theme by creating it as a forewarning through the weather and setting.
Elena Benoit ENB 111 3/31/15 Harsh and awful events permanently leave a mark on our memory. Specially, when these events are directly linked to an individual, the memory reproduces every second of what happened. It must certainly be a life of continuous relief, depression, and guilt at having survived the risks of combat. In Yusef Komunyakaa's poem, "Facing It", the poet uses imagery to convey the tone, which will stimulate many different emotions from somberness to excitement and fear. Imagery is clearly evident from the beginning lines “My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite” (1-2).
The first incident was when he wants to get away from Warings and that he gets attacked by the crow in chapter 3 and the second was when he was trying to escape from Warings to get to Hang Wood in chapter 6. My essay will about how Kingshaw feels free without Hopper and how he is trapped when he is with Hooper. Hooper follows Kingshaw every time he tries to escape and eventually Hooper finds Kingshaw when he is escaping to Hang Wood. In the third chapter Susan Hill shows us that Kingshaw doesn’t like Warings. Kingshaw is going to try and escape from Hooper and while doing so, he gets attacked by a crow.
Throughout the whole poem, the readers are able to know his disapproval, dislike and displeasure over the place that he lives in, by creating a moody and sullen tone which enhances the eerily seriousness of the atmosphere. The content, aim and the theme help to reinforce the writer’s intentions and message of the poem. Through the four quatrains, iambic tetrameter poem, it shows a society that is portrayed as being devastated and grim. Using the basic rhyme scheme of abab, it shows how the people and the places are infected and affected. The rhyme is able to give a flow to the events, making it on-going showing how the society keeps on worsening day by day.
In this essay I will explain the various methods to create tension and mood that the poet uses. These include: comparisons, repetition, onomatopoeia, alliteration and more. At the beginning of the poem the mood is gloomy and mysterious. The poet shows this with metaphors like, “The wind was a ghostly galleon.” It creates a spooky atmosphere, he also does this by using words like, “Ghostly, gusty and darkness.” These words also give the impression that it is lifeless. Later on in the poem, when Tim the ostler enters the scene, the mood changes dramatically to questioning and menacing.
''Title of Things Fall Apart'' The title of Achebe's novel ''Things Fall Apart'' owes to William Butler Yeats'1921 ''visionary''poem ,''The Second Coming''.Yeats speaks of the break-down of the ''old'' order and its displacement by a ''new'' order that rouses mixed feelings of revulsion and fascination in him.So the title is a kind of tribute to Yeats' mysticism. ''Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon can not hear the falconer Things Fall Apart;the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world''. Achebe would have most carefully chosen both the epigraph and title as his novel,is too about a forcible break-up of an older and settled order.Achebe is preoccupied with things falling apart,the break-down of the ''old'' order under the relentless onslaught of the ''new'' order. The significance of a title increases when it hints at the theme of the book.The very title''Things Fall Apart'',highlights the process of disintegration of Ibo culture and society.Achebe looks back at his Ibo society specifically at the period the white man broke into it and''mere anarchy''loosed upon the world of Umuofia. The major theme of the novel is that British colonoization and the conversation to christianity of tribal people has destroyed an intricate and old pattern of life in Africa.Dealing with the theme of chaos and disruption,Achebe's selection of title is not only proper,suggestive and accurate but a true reflection and the mirror to its theme.