This develops into ‘demoniac laughter’, which links the devil to the storm, making it seem evil and hostile. These sounds are described as “piercing”, which shows how violent and unpleasant they are. The poem has the sonnet structure of 14 lines, but it does not follow the 10 syllables per line form, showing the wildness and unpredictability of the storm. There is a religious metaphor on line 4 “waves, air, midnight, their savage trinity” the trinity is “father, son and holy spirit” in the church, here it is the combination of all factors that cause the demonic stormy scene, as if it has been created by a force, like the devil or God. The storm is continually built up to be a wild force with words like “lashing” and “fierce slanting” both showing the power of the force of the rain and wind on everything around it.
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.
Samuel D. Tomaszewski English 102-010 19 February 2014 To Be, or Not to Be? Art Thou a Fairy Tale? By capturing, torturing, and eventually releasing the fallen angel in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” Marquez uses magical realism and fairy tale elements to portray the political unrest that brewed in Columbia from the 1930s to the 1960s. The inhumane treatment of the man with wings also depicts Marquez’s view of the effects of the political revolution, which eventually led to a Columbian civil war. The magical realism genre is a fitting one for Marquez’s story.
(Poe) Then, he begins to ask the Raven questions. He asks whether or not he'll be reunited with his love again in Heaven, to which the Raven replies, “Nevermore.”(Poe).Before he begins inquiring about his lost love, he notices a strong smell of perfume and begins to call himself a wretch, thinking he's gone crazy. He realizes that it is the Raven's doing. This enrages the narrator and he begins to call the Raven a “thing of evil” and a “prophet”. (Poe) At the end, the narrator admits that his soul is trapped under the raven's shadow and shall be lifted, “Nevermore.”.
Fantasy as a genre of literature deals with things that cannot be, the construction of the impossible. At the outset, Hoffman describes the setting of Bellezza with such concrete and accurate detail – the sights, sounds and smells, that it acts as an anchor to reality, making the suspension of disbelief in the fantastic that much easier to achieve. The single most important criterion for a successful fantasy is the capacity to incite wonder and this is effectively shown in the vivid setting at the beginning of Stravaganza: City of Masks, as the protagonist Lucien is transported to a secondary world in his dream. Lucien, a twenty-first-century London High School boy, is sick and being treated for cancer. After receiving a marbled notebook as a present from his dad, he begins to fall asleep as his father “droned on in a comforting background” about where the notebook had been made -
The poet talks about the motion of how a tree bends when being blown over by strong winds and how she wanted to be different and also how she wanted chaos. Furthermore this line could be taken as metaphorically because she describes herself to the wind and how she is flying along with the objects taken by the storm. Shapcott describes metaphorically of how she loves the rush and darkness of a storm: “singing into the rush, into the dark.” The poet describes the storm which would create fear and a lot of adrenaline with the verb ‘singing’ which is very unusual since singing is usually related to being calm and relaxing. This could lead onto how Shapcott could think being part of the chaos is comforting to her and how she has freedom just like as music does. This gives the reader an image of how wild she is and how she has been controlled by the law until chaos breaks
Examples of the Chaos Theory is not just found in mathematics, science, or mechanics, it is used in many literary pieces. In Ray Bradbury’s extraordinary time travel short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Bradbury illustrates the Chaos Theory in the midst of time travel. In the middle of Ray Bradbury’s short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” Eckels(one of the main characters) mentions that if Lesperance came back in time to mark the T-rexes with red paint, then he must have seen their expedition and known whether or not it was successful. Travis thus explains to Eckels that “that’d be a paradox.”(Bradbury 5) Time travel does not permit a man to meet himself in a different time period. There is no way for them to determine if the expedition was a success or if the group made it out alive.
In the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the film Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock, many gothic conventions are used, which include the use of setting to emphasise the eerie mood created. The Strange case was written in the 19th century in London, mostly at night. The story follows Jekyll’s scientific experiments of splitting his identify and creating an alter ego. Similar ideas are explored in Hitchcock’s Film Rebecca his story centres around a young girl, who meets an older man that takes her to his family home in an isolated coastal place. Both successfully utilise setting to create the mysterious atmosphere in the gothic genre.
All of these are used to subtly reference the overall air of darkness and horror apparent in the novel. In one instance, Victor is at the cemetery mourning the loss of his loved ones, and he remarks that “Everything was silent except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark, and the scene would have been a solemn and affecting even to an uninterested observer” (Shelley 193). Victor would also have nightmares about the monster suffocating him and he would hear “groans and cries” ring in his ears. The metonyms add a parallel between the reader and the story by using commonly creepy circumstances to expedite the preexisting airs. In Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”, Roderick informs his friend that Madeline had mysteriously died.
It also helps the readers understand the scary mood through the use of stylistic devices. The secondary literary element Bradbury uses is the setting. In “A Sound of Thunder” the author uses the setting to describe where and when the characters are. “First a day and then a nightand then a day and then a night then it was day-night- day-night-day. A week, a Peel 2 month, a year, a decade!