Throughout the poem there is fear sadness and frustration this I mostly caused by the raven and the man’s lost love. The man feels sadness because he has just lost his love Lenore ‘sorrow for the lost Lenore’ we don’t know from this quote where Lenore is but this one does ‘whom the angles name Lenore’ this shows that is dead. He believes in heaven and god so he believes she was really good to god so she has become an angle. He doesn’t know this for sure, but he believes it. He is grieving over her throughout the poem he is sad and wants to know if he can see her again in heaven then his chance comes when a raven comes to the door the man askes the poem but the raven replies nevermore meaning no he won’t this is very sad to find out because this is all his believes and dreams gone down the drain.
The phrase ‘heart fit to break’ links to the iambic tetrameter breaking as the speaker’s heart is breaking, and so does the pattern. Form is used to tell the story of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ as the rhyme scheme shows the instability of both their relationship, and the lover’s apparent lack of sanity, whilst the iambic tetrameter shows that Porphyria’s lover is heartbroken because of this. The structure of the poem is another useful aspect that Browning uses to tell the story. ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ has been written in one long stanza, rather than in lots of stanzas. This not only builds up the excitement in the reader, but also builds tension as to what the lover will do and when.
As we follow the narrator’s fast decent into madness and loneliness, he keeps mentioning how heartless he realizes now that his lover is gone. “So that now it is so still I feel the beating of my heart”(“The Raven”464). This starts the beginning of the narrator’s decent into madness. He realizes the room that once was filled with love, has become a dark and silent room.
His loneliness is a more tangible expression of his alienation problem. Loneliness is what the novel revolves around, because the novel is mostly Holden going from one place to another, doing one thing to the next to find the desired friendship and love. He constantly recoils from introspection, which was the reason why he could not figure out why he was behaving the way he was. But introspection hit home with him after he met Phoebe again when she alleges that Holden “[doesn’t] don’t like anything that’s happening” (Salinger 169). This was when Holden realized his cynicism and negative outlook on life when he struggled to think of anything or anyone that he actually liked.
Romeo is hopelessly in love with Rosalind which he explains when he says, "I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink" (1.4.19-22). Romeo says that he is too much in love to be able to be happy because the kind of love that he has is a burden. The love that Romeo has is good because he likes being in love, but it makes him sad and it is a burden for Romeo. He wants to be in love and be able to be happy, but right now he is wounded by
Both of these stories show how any relationship, if not kept healthy, honest, and maintained can lead to a lack of trust or in severe cases, a breakup. Both Shukumar and Waythorn experience a sense of isolation in their marriages, yet Shukumar is the character who has to endure more by the ending of the story, due to a broken heart, the dependence on his wife and the time he invested in their relationship. When Shukumar found out that Shoba was leaving him, he was surprised to say the least. While the relationship was on rocky roads, it still hurt him to know that the woman he loved was abandoning him. Waythorn on the other hand doesn’t go through heartbreak, he and his wife were together by then end of the story and it didn’t seem as if either of the two planned on ending anything.
Loneliness for some is a dull beginning of a bright future, and for others, it is unfortunate and eternal. In The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Quoyle is a character who suffers through a boundless amount of loneliness that exists in many forms. He becomes lonely as he is involved in a one-way relationship and also exhibits the feeling of isolation when he is singled out by society. Similarly, the life experiences of a narrator in an anonymous writer’s poem, Bow Down Your Head and Cry, closely resemble the isolation and hardships that Quoyle is forced to suffer through. The narrator experiences loneliness and great difficulties coping with the separation of his loved one and additionally felt isolated as he was alienated from society.
When Ethan starts to fall in love with the Mattie, is when he starts to downfall. He is so in love with Mattie and she becomes his only source of happiness. Because of this he wants to escape with Mattie, he tries to commit suicide. This failed attempt makes his life worse, now he has to suffer for a lifetime. Another element of a tragic
His change of attitude grows confusing as he professes his dear love after her awful death, “ I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?”(5.1.255-257). After all the hatred consumed for Ophelia, Hamlet feels the need to show his love and care for her only after she is dead. Hamlet’s web of lies causes a dent in his portrayal towards society and the audience.
Clare writes about how a man has been rejected towards the end. The changing feelings from a positive start to a sad ending portray the poet’s attitude towards love. The message John Clare is trying to say that love is a painful thing and that unrequited love is devastating. Also it is even hard for a poet to write about love. In “La Belle Dame sans Merci” the poem