Soon this phrase is replaced with the repetition of "Nevermore." With such name as "Nevermore. Then the bird said, "Nevermore." This also alludes to the loss of Lenore, but here we can sense an even deeper sense of loss that will last for the rest of the speaker's life. This leaves the reader with the sense of horrible misery and loneliness, which ultimately leads to his mental downfall.
Life of Poe in relation to his works Poe’s life was plagued with unfortunate deaths of beloved relatives, sickness and drinking binges that changed his view on life and has a profound impact on his works from his repetitive yet never tiring themes of love, death and the never ending horrors of loneliness. Not only was his work very depressing, it was also widely accepted that the miserable characters in his works are metaphors of his interpretation of his own life and his many failures in his conquest for happiness. We know from his childhood that his father abandoned his family at a very young age and he once said that women is the source of comfort which provided the care Poe needed as an infant. However, tuberculosis claimed his wife, mother and much of his family’s lives leaving Poe emotionally broken. Many of his work revolved around the death of influential female characters that utilizes symbolism, for instance Annabel Lee which in my opinion is a metaphor of his wife – Virginia and that his poem is trying to resurrect the memories of their lives together as young adults in love and her tragic end and the horrors of death is symbolized as the raven who forcibly takes things from animals.
The grief she suffers is what leads to her derangement, and in turn, her own death. Ophelia’s despair causes her to be distraught and even suffer from paranoia. She seems to be extremely absentminded as a result of her father (Polonius’) death, and acts oddly peculiar. She speaks of “tricks i’th’ world”, which reflects how she may be paranoid as the effect of her grief. Others are worried for her and feel as though “Her mood will needs be pitied”.
When “Though” is used it is almost like it is natural that the “night was made for loving” and that Byron is going against the will of nature itself if he does not love. Finally, the word “Yet” acts as a final sending off for the wants of Byron, when it is used in the penultimate line of the poem. It carries with it an idea that the good times will never return and it is possibly this word which is burdened with the greatest amount of lamentation in the entire poem. Thus, Byron’s word choice suggests an idea of grief to the reader. Lord Byron has also used cataloguing in the second stanza, by using “And” in three consecutive lines.
Since the poem depicts both grief as well as love, the words of the poem produce the tone. The author incorporates words such as “decays” when speaking of love (3). The author also represents the speaker’s love as a “plague” when relating it to their broken heart (6). The speaker in the poem seems to mourn their lost love and their broken heart. Their morose and depressed attitude becomes apparent when they say, “I brought a heart into the room, but from the room I carried none with me” (19-20).
This word helps the reader to identify the speaker’s emotional standpoint of the separation. One can assume he feels as if his ex-lover has ripped his heart apart from hers. In the last line of the first stanza, “truly that hour foretold sorrow to this,” the speaker shows the readers that the pain and grief he feels in the moment of their separation does not ease with time. The feelings he felt in the moment of separation was just foreshadowing the greater sorrow the speaker would feel later on. In the second stanza, it describes the speaker’s atmosphere as being cold.
Plath’s gift of recreating her past experiences in a complex form, so as to remove them from her present, started to seem like an obsession, within which her poems show a regular pattern of self-centredness. It was this characteristic that lead her far from any ‘self-discovery’ and ‘self-definition’, and drove her to her death, ‘an art’ as she puts it. ‘Daddy’ is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery through Plath’s use of ambiguous symbolism, as it bitterly addresses the relationship she had with her father, who died when she was eight, and her husband Ted Hughes, who had broken her ‘pretty red heart in two’. It is intense with highly suppressed emotion, setting an aggressive, desperate, almost psychic tone that is highly concentrated on the theme of death. Grieved to the point of psychotic anger, Plath’s use of imagery throughout the poem accentuates the hopeless despair she felt at the conflicting male relationships in her life.
Words like “dull”, “dust” and “sweat” all illustrate how depressed and tough their life is. These gloomy adjectives used, makes the reader imagine the miserable state of the wife, married to an abusive man. With the wise choice of words, we get the picture that the man suffered to earn a living, however now the women is enduring pain as a result of his frustration. The lack of rhyme in this poem is also poem; reflecting the monotony of their life. From the beginning of the poem we realize that the situation is not pleasant; this is shown by the alliteration of the harsh consonant ‘d’.
These two poems are so similar, in fact, it begs the question as to whether or not Dickinson wrote her poem in response to Dryden. Their situations and settings were indeed similar, in that they were losing their lovers and feeling the agony of the moment. In both poems the speaker is anguished at the prospect: “I can die with her, but not live without her.” (Dryden, Line 4)The speaker then comes to the conclusion that the only way to avoid the issue is a solution unfavored by all: “I cannot live with you-it would be life. . .”, “I could not die-with you.
These questions show the reader that the speaker does not understand why their loved one passed on. When someone does not understand why someone has died, it can cause severe depression due to the unreality of death, especially in adolescents and young adults, who are not yet as accepting of death as older people may be (Jones, page 94). In this poem, the speaker questions how they can move on after the death of their loved one, but in the last line of the poem, they say “the answer to loss is to treasure the memories Of our loved one For as long as we have a memory We never lose out”. This contrasts their feelings from earlier in the poem, because they are answering their questions about the death of their loved one, which shows their acceptance of the loss. Webb’s use of diction also contributes to the theme of the poem because she uses words like “terrible” and “lingering” to describe the pain the speaker is going through.