“From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore -- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore.” In Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee”, the tone is also gloomy and sad, as you can see from lines 25 and 26: “That the wind came out of the cloud by night Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.” “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” both have hints of sadness and gloom, some more than others, but they are indeed present in both poems distinctively. Another similarity between the two poems is their dark and gloomy imagery, especially in lines 23 through 26 in “Annabel Lee”, where Poe begins to mention where his Annabel Lee had gone. Unlike “The Raven”, this poem talks about a woman or girl named Annabel Lee, who is said to have been taken by the sea, as lines 40 and 41 mention. “In the sepulcher there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.” Both of these Poe poems talk about women who are gone. “The Raven” mentions Lenore
Owen conveys the idea that by using music and alcohol to relieve your pain is an outdated method, which we can see through the archaic diction “slake”. Although this is true, by informing us that the narrator’s “heart has beaten”, the past tense shows us that music can no longer have this effect on him which links to Owen’s use of archaic words. At the same time, in the poem ‘On My Songs’, Owen depicts the narrator relieving his pain by reading the language of other poets. Immediately the capitalization of “ unseen Poets” conveys that he is showing respect towards the people who were influential enough to reach new generations even though they were never seen.
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.
We can tell that he is hurt psychologically as it says ‘unexploded mine buried deep in his mind’ and physically as it says ‘the rungs of his broken ribs’ these are both effects of his traumatic experience at war. The distribution of each stanza could also show the distance that she now has with the subject because of his lack of understanding of his painful experiences and emotions. As a reader, it sounds like she is writing the poem the way she would be saying it, this emphasises the shortness of each stanza and the small steps she has to take to his recovery, which is also shown in the tone of the poem as she sounds in pain, which makes the reader feel sorry for her. However, in ‘Hour’, the poem is separated into four stanzas, which all have four lines each apart from the last stanza which has two lines. Each stanza has emotive language of the writer’s feelings, we know this as it says things such as ‘we are millionaires, backhanding the night’ this gives the reader the impression that their relationship is stable and strong unlike the fragmented relationship in ‘The Manhunt’.
In The Scarlet Letter, the character feeling the most despair is Dimmesdale. Towards the middle of the book when his health starts failing you can see his despair show more and more in his thoughts and in his sermons. Both of these characters feel despair because of the guilt from something that they or happened to them. The difference is while Dimmesdale let his guilt and despair eat him
“FRAGRANCE OF ROSES” – Peter Carey 1. Is the old man a sympathetic or unsympathetic character? Does our impression of him change in the story? In the first part of the story, the old man appears to be an extremely sympathetic character, and the author seems to use deep pathos to evoke compassion for him in various instances. This view of his role as a victim of discrimination is emphasised a multiple of times throughout the exposition and rising action of the story.
The use of personification helps give an image along with a clear connection. Another device used by Heaney is allusion. The allusion seen in the poem is “our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s”. The connection between this poem and Bluebeard is that the narrator of the poem feels guilty for taking all of the blackberries. One top of that, the blackberries got spoiled, where “sweet flesh would turn sour”, which is the change for worse.
The first stanza reflects the severe condition of the worn out soldiers which is implied by hyperbole, such as “All went lame; all blind”(line 6), expressing the vehemence of the poets feelings more than the tragedy of the soldiers. The auditory and visual images Owen conjures in this stanza, however, create a shocking contrast with Horace´s idea that dying ‘heroically’ for one´s country is glorious, , “blood-shod”. Furthermore, by using the simile “bent double, like old beggars under sacks” in the first line, the poet further conjures the image of destitute persons, exhausted from the heavy weight of their bags and
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
He begins writing at night, a time when darkness will match his mood. The night sky filled withstars offers him no comfort since they "are blue and shiver." Their distance from him reinforcesthe fact that he is alone. However, he can appreciate the night wind that "sings" as his verseswill, describing the woman he loved. Lines 5–10 Neruda repeats the first line in the fifth and follows it with a declaration of the speaker’s love for an unnamed woman.