Neruda’s father moved with his sons in 1906 to Temuco, and married Trinidad Candia Marvedre. At the age of ten Neruda started writing poetry. At the age of 12 he met Gabriela Mistral, who encouraged his literary efforts. Neruda spent most of his childhood in Temuco. "I, a poet who writes in Spanish, learned more from Walt Whitman than from Cervantes," Neruda said in 1972 in a speech during a visit in the United States.
The bird’s darkness matches the morbid and depressing tone of the poem and represents lost love and death and symbolizes "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. The beginning of this poem largely highlights the elements of darkness and death as Poe describes the atmosphere by employing techniques such as metaphors, alliteration and the use of ironic words to create symbolism. The phrase ‘Midnight dreary’ suggests that it is a dark, cold and wet night and midnight is also related to evil so this indicates that there is evil activity that is about to happen. ‘Bleak December’ symbolizes the lifeless month due to the season of winter which represents death. The metaphor ‘each separate dying ember, wrought its ghost upon the floor’ is used contribute to the mood.
The speaker shows the brutality of death. He shows that death eventually happens to every person and there is no escaping it. Through the use of metaphors, Frost communicates that all beauty eventually dies, and nothing with meaning will last. Frost further emphasizes the undesirable reality of death through the use of metaphors, and allusions. First, he compares the perfection of Eden to the reality of death.
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In Robert Frost’s poem, the imagery brings about a sad and depressing mood. In the line, “I have looked down the saddest city lane.” You can observe that the character is taking in his surroundings, which prove to be gloomy and depressing. It almost shows that he has a very negative outlook on life, like he’s stuck in a state of depression. On the other hand, in Dickinson’s poem the imagery brings about a state of confusion almost as if the narrator is lost in the darkness. This can be seen in “The Bravest – grope a little – And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead – But as they learn to see –” This line shows that the narrator is lost in the night and doesn’t know where to go, due to the inability to see anything in the dark.
‘Rain’ written by Edward Thomas is a deeply moving poem, with its strong undertones of death and creating a sense of sympathy. This particular sonnet was written in times of war, where Edward himself was battling. He was surrounded in an atmosphere of solitude and dieing soldiers, thus he reflects on this idea of the ‘end of life’ as he too feels he is to be victim of this tragic ending soon. Even though ‘Rain’ could relate to perhaps any soldiers situation, we assume that the persona in the poem is Thomas himself, giving the poem a personal viewpoint, allowing readers to relate to the poem and its protagonist better. Thomas uses a variety of language devices to invoke an emotional reaction from his readers and further pursue in epitomizing his interpretation of death.
Donne’s attitude in ‘Death be no proud’ is aggressive whereas Auden’s is sad and distraught. Evidence of this is that ‘Death be not proud’ presents death as proud and arrogant. Donne portrays this by stating rhetorical questions such as ‘Why swell’st thou then?’ which summarised means why are you so proud of yourself? By addressing death in an aggressive tone, this shows Donne is irritated and outraged by deaths ‘behaviour’. Auden’s poem ‘Funeral Blues’ however, doesn’t talk about death directly and only talks about his sad feelings towards death.
Charles Simic is a Serbian-American poet born on May 9, 1938 in Belgrade which was then a part of Yugoslavia. Simic’s early days passed under the effects of the Second World War and he witnessed the effects of Nazism on people. At a very young age, Simic’s father had been captured by the Nazi officials but he managed to escape in the year 1944. Many of his poems such Death List are strongly influenced by the time he spent under the Nazi regime and on the horrors of the holocaust survivors. One of the first poem that Simic published was “What the Grass Says”, this was when he was in high school in USA.
Night Duty by Eva Dobell is a poem which displays the awful conditions and standards of care in hospitals during WW1. The poem expresses the suffering of individuals by creating a sombre image of the hospital ward with “terror” and “pain”. The nurse looks upon the injured men. The soldiers lay “remote and strange”, Dobell may be suggesting that war leaves men lost and unknown. She continues to express how the soldiers have lost themselves in the final stanza writing about how they are so near in “body” but in “soul as far”.
Since he had so many deaths in his life he wrote this poem to express how he sees death taking over locations that were once spectacular and are now in grieve and the absence of the liveliness. This poem shows an image of how death rises and becomes a higher power and taking away the light. The outcome of all the pain and horror that follows in deaths footprints in a city isolated by water is seen as a putrid