This is because he is wandering the dark streets of London. As he’s walking the dark streets of London he’s seen bad things which will affect his image of London. He also uses the words “Marks of weakness, marks of woe.” This shows as he walks the dark streets he can see people suffering. Not just in a physical way but in their faces. However, Wordsworth uses bright words such as “beauty” and “glittering”.
At first glance, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks instantaneously permitted me to feel a sense of exclusion and restriction. The title combined with the general contrast of colors in the painting immediately placed me on the outside, in the dark. The scene Hopper shows us is a late-night city street-corner setting, where an all-night diner is open and serving a few people. Judging the lack of detail in the people’s faces, I was given a restricted and limited role in the painting. It felt as if I were a stranger walking on the desolate sidewalks outside.
Through many of the stories that Dickens wrote, the true condition of the empire is exposed. Through the pages of “A Small Star in the East”, the poverty stricken lifestyle is truly given to the reader through his exceptional use of imagery and metaphors. A true sense of the lives of the families in industrious areas and the living conditions of the masses is written in such a way that truly impacts the reader. Dickens writes “A squalid maze of streets, courts, and alleys of miserable houses let out in single rooms. A wilderness of dirt, rags, and hunger.” (727-28).
Dealing with the violence associated with the barrio life - a city area mainly inhabited by a Spanish-speaking population. More so, the harsh and desolated existence of life, farm life to be exact, and the opportunities denied many people who live in Chicago are reoccurring themes in his works. His short lines, to the point and sharp, are his characteristic in this line of poetry. Each
The image of " withered leaves" again points to the winter motif and paints a clear picture of death and decline. Always remember that the poet is not only referring to leaves here; he is using this image, through association, to connect to the general idea of loss of meaning in the modern urban world. The second stanza intensifies its attack on the modern world. The first two lines clearly express the idea that modern life is little more than a drunken hangover. The feeling of personal and social decadence is strengthened by the images in these
Meaning in the Structure of Araby The setting of James Joyce’s Araby is as much a character in the story as the people within the story. Strong structural clues within the first paragraph set up what is a common theme throughout most of Joyce’s works, which is that the setting is acting out on the characters, instead of the other way around. Joyce opens the story by stating that North Richmond Street is “blind,” meaning a dead end. Before Joyce even finishes his opening sentence, he foreshadows the fate of the boy when he gets to the bazaar. We are informed that the only time that North Richmond Street isn’t quiet is when the Christian Brothers’ School boys are “set free” for the day.
Analysis (1) Fifth Business is so intriguing in large part because it synthesizes a romanticized coming-of-age story with a more mythical undercurrent. From the very beginning, one senses a gravity to the work that is belied by the otherwise realistic descriptions of what Dunstan calls "village life" (16). This unique approach is all centered around Dunstan, who as a narrator is possessed not only of intelligence and sensitivity, but also of self-awareness. The basic premise of the narration - that Dunstan is offended to have been written off as ordinary in the school newspaper article - underlines a central message of the novel: even the 'ordinary' possesses a strong undercurrent of mystery and magic. What is important is the willingness to look for and notice this undercurrent.
There is quite clearly a massive amount of symbolism and imagery for which a second pass may even reveal more. The author chooses to build the suspense of the plot until the last few paragraphs in a way that only compounds the significance of the ending. Overall the work provides a unique and complete story that can clearly be read without outside input. If we look at “The Lottery” using biographical criticism school we would quickly see that the story had significance to Jackson's life in a number of ways. Despite being born in San Fransisco in 1916, the author moved to the east coast as a teenager.
The use of those symbols gives to the novel a fanciful style, transforming characters or simple objects on a figurative representation to understand the context and the author’s view point. For example, on the first chapter, “The Prison-door”, which is the shortest one, Hawthorne expresses with the use of symbols thoughts and facts, that written in a conventional way would be much longer to explain and probably not as well pictured. He describes the biggest character of puritanism on a few lines: “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest pratical necessities to allot a portion of virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of prison.” So here, the words cemetery and prison are acting as symbols on the text. They will represent on one hand puritan’s pessimism and their conviction on
In the poem Preludes, T.S.Elliot describes a range of ‘images’ which have “moved him” , hence they affect the readers view of the particular street scene. Through a range of visual and olfactory imagery we gain strong impressions of the “Sawdust-trampled Street” with its “grimy scraps”, “withered leaves” and “dingy shades”. From the opening stanza, readers observe how decrepit the street is and the people who have to adopt “masquerades” in order to survive the squalor. Even the “lonely cab horse” is dissatisfied with the circumstances as it “steams and stamps” waiting for its client to return. This image also gives the 21st Century reader a glimpse of a much older world, which is further, accentuated by the image of the lamplight which refers to the sulfur lamps lit by hand, casting a yellowish glow.