This brings forth the message of the poem in the end. The message of the poem can be interpreted in many ways. One may see ‘November Graveyard as a simply word portrait, displaying the graveyard in a pessimistic manner. Perhaps the message of the poem is to reveal the truth about death, it being just cold, unyielding nothingness. Some may see it as Plath’s attempt for humans to see beyond what their modern consciousnesses allow them to see.
Only winter can represent how Dexter’s life changed into a bitter loneliness. “Spring” or “fall” do not have the same kind of negative connotation like the winter. The seasons help to show Dexter’s change, mirroring his mental state as the story progresses, ending in the frozen cold
The first lines suggest a feeling of decline and despair. How does the imagery help to achieve this effect? Notice the use of "winter" images. Winter is usually associated with a lack of growth and a loss of vitality. The poem is suggesting that the modern city is in a state of "winter" and has lost its direction and vitality.
. In Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s Acquainted with the Night, darkness is the key factor. But in that sole similarity lays their differences. In one poem the author seeks to find light in order to come out of the darkness they are in, and in the other poem the author doesn’t seek light at all. In fact they accept the darkness and just live with it not fighting it off.
When we think of death, we think of different scenes in the book. To help support the three main ideas, Wharton uses metaphors, similes, and other uses of figurative language. Winter, as the setting, sets the tone of the story throughout the entire book. In the prologue, it describes that Ethan has endured too many Starkfield winters. Wharton gives the feeling of bitterness and depression by using winter as the setting.
Longer dramatic poems explore how people isolate themselves even within social contexts. Later poems return the focus to solitude, exploring how encounters and community only heighten loneliness and isolation. This deeply pessimistic, almost misanthropic perspective sneaks into the most cheerful of late Frost poems, including “Acquainted with the Night” and “Desert Places.” Solitary Travelers Solitary travelers appear
Thoreau-Observation Paper Living through a harsh winter in Northwestern Ohio, one may find themselves enveloped in a grey cloud of depression and lethargy. Nature, however, has a gentle way of reminding us that life, and the emotions we experience during it, are on a continuously changing path. Just like the sleeping stillness of winter is eventually replaced with springtime’s bursting buds of colorful new life, so too are the dark times in our life exchanged with those of great hope and joy. By closely monitoring nature’s every changing seasons one can be reminded that like our state of mind and emotion, nothing lasts forever. Watching the frantic flurry of snowflakes falling forlornly onto the cold frozen ground, I wondered if the sun would ever shine again.
The harsh, gloomy characteristics of the land are reflected in the human characters. In Frankenstein, Victor’s country house near Geneva is described as isolated, dwarfed by massive, snow capped mountain ranged and hunted by the emptiness of a calm lake. Victor also describes it as "an unusual tranquillity"(page 27) This effect of isolation and tranquillity leads directly into the dreary element of mood. Victors apartment at the university also conveys a feeling of dread with its piles of books, scattered equipment, dust and unkemptness. Shelley’s novel takes us on a tour of the wildest, most isolated geography in Europe: the Swiss and French Alps, the Rhine valley, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Russia and the Arctic.
How do the poets present the natural world in Plath’s “Manor Garden” and Hughes’ “Thistles”? Nature is shown to be overwhelming in Sylvia Plath’s poem “ The Manor Garden”. Plath uses nature as a platform to discuss the speaker’s insecurities about reproduction. Also, she is able to instantly set the stagnant atmosphere in which she takes the readers on a journey. Plath’s use of language to describe nature affects the readers by portraying nature in a negative light.
As it highlights the problems that are just simply ignored when it comes to Christmas time. Its Subject is that of something important and meaningful. In the first verse Rodgers talks about how he harvests a strong bitterness about the state of hypocrisy in the world at that particular time. He describes the fake niceness and sheer insincerity of peoples, attitudes at Christmas. He states how the snow acts as the mask of harmony and that it covers or embosoms all the harsh ness and evil in society with its caring white coat.