The bird’s darkness matches the morbid and depressing tone of the poem and represents lost love and death and symbolizes "Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. The beginning of this poem largely highlights the elements of darkness and death as Poe describes the atmosphere by employing techniques such as metaphors, alliteration and the use of ironic words to create symbolism. The phrase ‘Midnight dreary’ suggests that it is a dark, cold and wet night and midnight is also related to evil so this indicates that there is evil activity that is about to happen. ‘Bleak December’ symbolizes the lifeless month due to the season of winter which represents death. The metaphor ‘each separate dying ember, wrought its ghost upon the floor’ is used contribute to the mood.
Both Dawe and Slessor use powerful imagery to illustrate their anti-war sentiments. The two poems address the gravity of war and the awful sacrifices of men too young to die and the use of imagery in each adds another dimension and plays a crucial part in emphasizing the message of pieces. Imagery is used in both poems to create a sense of unification in death, both between the families of the dead boys as in homecoming when Dawe used imagery such as ‘the spider grief swings’ through the ‘wide web of suburbs’ as the news of death reaches each house and unifies the whole country in mourning. But a different type of unification in beach burial as Slessor unifies the dead soldiers from both sides of the war, ‘the sand joins them together’ in their graves, they are all labelled as ‘unknown soldiers’ and Slessor describes them all as ‘gone in search of the same landfall’. Another type of imagery that appears in both poems in the description of the war itself and the imagery used reinforces the brutality of it, so is the aim of both poems.
The subject of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is that a man is driven insane by the loss of his girlfriend. The raven comes and brings fear to him. Whenever he asks a question, the raven responds by saying “Nevermore”. It states in the poem, “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, … Nameless here for evermore” (7-12). This quote means that the narrator still remembers that night that his girlfriend dies and he is in great sorrow for his lost for Lenore.
Loss can be felt through death as well as someone leaving your life. Harry experiences this loss through Miss Spencer leaving the town. Overall, this bildungsroman shows the concept of grief and loss and ways to cope through various situations. The death of Harry’s mother in the novel explores the loss and guilt the Hodby’s have to endure and ways in which they manage to live without a mother in their family. Harry’s father is definitely most affected by the death of his wife.
Many such works can be connected by this literary element of mental illness and death. Death and Mental Illness in Literature Death and Mental Illness in Literature The dissensioninto madness of a man, within his chambers, over his misunderstandings of death, and the loss of Lenore, his lover is described in the Poem, "The Raven", by Edgar Allen Poe. There are many ways that death is used within this body of this work.The poem starts out by talking of a dark December midnight in which December symbolizes an ending with cold fashion and the midnight meaning darkness or far from light, which could be portraying death. Death and Mental Illness in Literature Death and Mental Illness in Literature Death and Mental Illness in Literature Death and Mental Illness in Literature As scholars often note, human beings can never accurately report on the experience of death, they can only imagine it. Thus it should come as no surprise that death has played such a significant role in literature, where humans use imagination to reflect shape and understand their
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“Zapped while zipping” (107) is what they all said because Lavender died while returning from going to the bathroom. Cross takes the death very hard. Kiowa, one of Cross’s soldiers, talked about how he wished he could feel the grief that Cross was feeling.
Pattern The poem “Funeral Blues”, written by W. H. Auden, is based on a loved one who is deceased. The poem is written based on nontraditional and traditional elements. This poem is also based on several different themes such as death, order and disorder, and also the meaning of love. Throughout the poem W. H. Auden mixes his stanzas with some words that rhyme and rarely some that don’t. “This coupling of ordered and unordered patterns symbolizes the speaker’s efforts, and final failure, to reestablish order in his life after suffering the devastating loss of a loved one.
The poem however, rejects this maxim by vividly describing the condition of physically poor and decrepit old soldiers ready to die. The weary soldiers are returning from battle and the front liners are gassed unexpectedly by their enemies. The poem records the painful struggle of one of the men, affected by the poisonous gas, as he approaches his inevitable death. Throughout the poem, Owen creates gory, graphic images and uses apt diction to clearly convey the horror and squalor of the war and the soldiers’ extreme languor and suffering. To end the poem, he simply refutes the old Latin saying he considers a total lie; a fallacy.
In the opening stanza of Death Alone, Neruda uses dark imagery to emphasize the harsh reality of desolation that surrounds the event of death. He explains that when we are on the verge of dying, we “[collapse] inwards from skin to soul” (7) and our “heart[s] thread[] a . . . dark tunnel” (3), the tunnel being symbolic for the solitude that compliments death.