The house of Wuthering Heights is introduced into the novel in a storm. This pathetic fallacy gives an insight into the main feel of the Wuthering heights manor and also the darkness it will bring later on in the novel. The house itself is an old stone building that seems daunting to the reader and very uneasy, the words that are used to describe the house are of a cruel and conficting nature, “kitchen was forced to retreat altogether into another quarter”. Furthermore, Wuthering heights could be seen as having an effect on the people that live there, for example its depressing nature and desolate location could have effected that characters behaviour, making them more cruel, maybe due to their isolation. This could also be suggested through Heathcliff and Catherine as it was only when they were away from the house and roaming the moors together that they truly are able to be themselves together.
In Lying in the Hammock, numerous interpretations believe the author is representing that he has wasted his life. According to Franz Wright of the Constant Critic, the meaning that Wright was trying to convey is, “You must change your life as I have wasted my life” (Wright, Franz). A popular interpretation of Robert Frosts’ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is that the author was contemplating death or suicide. According to Jeffery Meyers of Modern American Poetry the poem is implying a “subconscious desire for death in the dark, snowy, woods” (Meyers). In On His Blindness, many interpretations focus on the negative mood and resentful tone of the poem surrounding the author’s blindness.
Running into headlights. Running into the silence of death.” The anaphora of ‘running’ highlights his emotional devastation which shows Tom's paranoia and frustration in the initial stages of the novel. As a result of the crisis, Tom responds adversely to a new start at Coghill. 3. The motif of darkness is frequently used to demonstrate a condition of misery and downhearted: “There aren’t words to say how black and empty pain felt.
Archie Weller, famous for his award winning collection of short stories “Going Home”, paints a blunt and unyielding picture of an Indigenous man whose life is one of alcoholism and problems with the law. In a similar vein, John Danalis’s novel constructs Indigenous People as a forgotten group of people whom mainstream Australia has at best forgotten and at worst, looks down upon. These two representations provided by these texts are most powerfully compared in two key ways. Firstly in terms of the relationships between the mainstream Euro-centric culture of Australia and Indigenous culture, and secondly the perspectives of Indigenous people themselves provided by both texts. The disconnect between Indigenous Australians and the mainstream culture of Australia and vice versa is powerfully represented in both John Danalis and Archie Weller’s texts.
The Poem “Evening Hawk”, written by Robert Penn Warren, uses a particular style to describe the passage of time. He uses many adjectives that refer to darkness and lightness. This image of dark and light reflects the progress of time through the presence or absence of the hawk, which represents the devastating force of time. The first stanza opens up with the image of light. “Geometries and orchis that the sunset blinds” is quickly turned to darkness as the hawk appears “out of the peak’s black angularity of shadow.” The Hawk, a destructive force in the poem, is portrayed as the destroyer of time.
The use of pathetic fallacy also adds to show the bleak and sinister atmosphere which the characters are in. The country was “burned away”, the “blackened shapes of rock” standing out of the “shoals of ash” and “billows of ash rising up and blowing downcountry through the waste”. The imagery used here is very striking and gives us an image of the wasteland. McCarthy also uses plosives to further highlight the extent of the desolation of the wasteland. For example trees are described as “bare and blackened”.
Sang Hee Gina Park Writing 30 Prof. Lena Firestone Midterm Root Cellar The poem, “Root Cellar,” written by the poet Theodore Roethke describes the unfavorable condition of root cellar, and how the living organisms are affected from it. Throughout the poem, the author portrays the negative outlook and perspective of the ‘stinking’ cellar. He writes strongly and pessimistically that not a single organism would be able to sleep, or even live due to the molded surroundings. The description of the cellar setting is vividly and thoroughly written as it symbolizes the reality of human life. Regardless of the filthy tone that introduces the unfortunate and evil atmosphere, Roethke manages to convey that the organisms in the extenuating circumstances have become successful as they overcome the difficulties, challenge themselves to
Self created or felt from another persons doing, this separation of ones being must be dealt with. Life comes with its misfortunes. Isolation and abandonment alongside poverty; all battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the memorable heroes. Mary Helen Washington, a novelist and a critic, quoted that in reading the story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, written by Susan Glaspell, possess “a tremendous sense of…isolation” (Penfield 87). This short story offers a real sense of its dramatic dialogue, describing the very nature of isolation and its eerie sense, dwelling in several scenarios throughout this story.
Trent Miera Professor Donnell English 1A (6339) 15 January 2013 Edgar Allan Poe With a life of despair foreshadowing, he fought his way through the hard ships and did more than deemed possible. This could be a very short and concise summary of the life of Edgar Allan Poe, too short a life at that. A phenomenal writer, well known and much admired. Poe didn’t live the life of luxury though, beginning with some difficult times towards his early life. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40.
The mood is further darkened by the description of the setting, using language such as “black angularity” and “guttural gorge” to paint a sinister and imposing landscape. Evening Hawk is not the romantic description of nature we often find in poetry; rather it is an exploration of the dark, powerful side of nature. Even a symbol that is intrinsically positive in its nature, light, is