I feel that Poe’s use of words in this poem is interesting because he is showing such a negative side of life. In his poem Alone, Edgar Allan Poe defines the life of a person in deep despair using dark, Gothic words and symbolism. In the first 12 lines of the poem, the speaker looks back on his life as a child. He tells of how he was alone, isolated, and different from everyone else around him. (Line 1, 2) He was an outcast who did not fit in with the others in his life.
As well as isolation in those senses, Arthur Kipps is also very emotionally isolated from his family’s happiness at the start of the novel, and is separated from other men by his traumatic experiences. Later in the novel, he is physically isolated from civilization, as he passes through Gapemouth tunnel to Crythin Gifford. All throughout the novel you could say, as he is away from his family and friends that he is also
The language barrier further creates distance between the narrator and his heritage. “Whispers in the darkness” and “why do they never speak?” suggest that the narrator is not able to communicate fully with his ancestors. In the poem imagery shows the narrator’s personal awareness of his surroundings and how they can people, the past and the environment you live in can impact your own sense of belonging or in the narrator’s case not belonging. The imagery of the circle in stanza three shows the exclusion the narrator feels as he is not a part of the circle yet somehow included as he is inside it. This
Auden is a homosexual which wasn’t very accepted in this time period. He tells us that he is afraid because he does not know what may happen to him due to his sexuality. Throughout the whole poem there is an irregular rhyming pattern; this inconsistency results in representing the chaotic atmosphere for a lot of the world during this period. It represents people’s lives and an example of this is “Faces along the bar cling to their average day…” this allows us to perceive the corrupted dysfunctional lives of the people. Auden tells us that people are just about leading a normal life, which they are trying to forget about everything and pretend that it isn’t there.
The dreadful trauma of this era instigated the imaginations of writers and painters in worrying and unsettling ways for decades to follow. The insecurity of daily survival created an atmosphere of gloom and doom influencing artist to move away from optimistic themes and turn to images of Hell, Satan and the Grim Reaper. Many painters simply gave up art believing that it was hopeless to try and create beauty in a hellish world.
Another thing he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and , he gets sick. His words describing his loneliness. Along with this he feels himself very down because of his colour. Crooks felt very small when Curly's wife address him "Nigger". Another character is Curley's wife who is very lonely.
Soon after he left the army he started his literary career. “Poe’s stories were influenced by his insecurities and his problems, for this reason he disliked criticism” (Kennedy 387). One story that Poe made was called “Tell Tale Heart”. Like many stories it did not become popular till long after Poe’s death. The reason was because many in the past could not understand the story enough to actually like it.
Many readers interpret this poem as depressing; displaying a man that is regretting something he has done in the past, which creates a melancholy tone. Frost uses the repetition of “I have” (I.1) to make a regretful tone. The persona has done many deeds or actions that have lead to his complete isolation to the outside world. This further develops the thought of suicide in the persona’s mind. Furthermore, the persona states he is “one acquainted with the night” (I.1).
Dostoyevsky reveals to the reader that Raskolnikov had in a way “withdrawn” from society and human contact. “It was not as though he were a coward by nature or easily intimidated. Quite the contrary. But for some time past he had been in an irritable and overstrung state which was like hypochondria. He had been so absorbed in himself and had led so cloistered a life that he was afraid of meeting anybody, let alone his landlady”.
The Underground Man is a hermit. He is always alone which is a sign for existentialism because he argues that every man is in constant isolation. Man is born alone and he will also die alone. He is away from his fellow human beings. The Underground Man makes his unchanging character known within this quote; “I did not, of course, maintain friendly relations with my comrades and soon was at loggerheads with them and in my youth and inexperience I even gave up bowing to them, as though I had cut off all relations.