One of the scariest things about schizophrenia is the uncertainty of how the person will act in any given situation. Much like in the poem, schizophrenia is a lot of chaos and confusion with little understanding from those closest to you. “Certain doors were locked at night,” (line 5). This line informs the reader that members of the household are afraid of the schizophrenic, and afraid of what the schizophrenic is capable of doing while everyone else is asleep. Schizophrenia is a mental illness for which there is no cure.
Since in reality- a home cannot have true feelings, you can come to the conclusion that the poet made the home feel animated by giving it human-like characteristics. The speaker personifies the empty home to highlight the emotion of loneliness that the home is feeling, and also shows its contents as objects that miss and long for their owners. When the poem mentions “it stays as it was left,” and “shaped to the comfort of the last to go as if to win them back.” it is referring to how if the last people who left the house were to return they would find it just the same as they left it. A home is occupied with objects, memories, and so much more. A home grows, develops, and changes along with the people who change with it.
When Billy arrived at Bath, the air there was ‘deadly cold’ and the wind was ‘like a flat blade of ice’. Night had fallen and the whole environment was dark. As Billy was especially new and unfamiliar to this place, the scene where he was walking alone on a deserted, creepy street sets up great worries and anxiety in the readers. Secondly, Roald Dahl uses juxtaposition to emphasize some strange scenes. Billy was originally walking in the dark when he saw the landlady’s window ‘brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp’.
To add to the mystery, when Arthur gets woke up by Spider, there is a noise which Arthur is obviously scared of and when he first wakes up he refers to the silence as ominous and dreadful. Furthermore after this event happens, the weather changes to a much “colder and damp” feeling which shows us that Hill has decided to connect weather with the goings on in the house. Once the noise has started again, Arthur refers to his job as “ghost hunting” which adds the ominous terror of what is in that room. To add to the terror as it was a moonless night, there would be very little for him to see with only his torch. Hill then revisits one of the terrors Arthur has already experienced with ‘The sound of a pony and trap’, by repeating the noise of a pony and trap, in the distance, crashing into the quicksand ahead, and as it was a moonless night, only the sound would be heard and nothing of the pong or the trap would be seen.
She struggles to conform, and so “squeeze[es]…into the bottom of her berth…doubling…the bedclothes”. The porter’s actions represent the inflexibility and lack of cooperation from the North, so Sally attempts to compromise instead. However, the compromise is unsuccessful, as she is still “uncomfortabl[e]”. Her experiences in North Carolina are represented allegorically when she is lost in the “passage[s]” of the Ice Palace. Her inability to become familiar and establish a connection with the North is resonated when she lost, leading to her “dreary loneliness”, leading to
MIGRANT HOSTEL A tone of instability and insecurity is set within the first stanza where the accumulation of the nouns “comings and goings”, “arrivals” and “sudden departures” suggests a sense of chaos and highlights the lack of stability within the poet's life. The use of enjambment of “wondering/ who would be coming next” allows the emphasis to fall heavily on “who”, illustrating the transient nature of the hostel environment and putting emphasis on the uncertainty of who is to arrive next. This constant change becomes unsettling and prevents the poet from finding a place of belonging and further hindering his self-identity, leaving him lost and confused. The physical and emotional divisions set up by different nationalities is further
In Robert Frost’s poem, the imagery brings about a sad and depressing mood. In the line, “I have looked down the saddest city lane.” You can observe that the character is taking in his surroundings, which prove to be gloomy and depressing. It almost shows that he has a very negative outlook on life, like he’s stuck in a state of depression. On the other hand, in Dickinson’s poem the imagery brings about a state of confusion almost as if the narrator is lost in the darkness. This can be seen in “The Bravest – grope a little – And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead – But as they learn to see –” This line shows that the narrator is lost in the night and doesn’t know where to go, due to the inability to see anything in the dark.
Roethke's decision to use words such as “waltzing” (line 4) and “romped” (line 5) in his poem bring about a certain energy that Hayden's poem does not. His tone is a light one, a happy one where there seems to be joy in the home and two family members that care deeply for each other and enjoy showing that appreciation outwardly. In Hayden's poem there is a darkness to the home which surfaces with descriptions such as “blueblack cold” (line 2) and describing the house so cold its “splintering, breaking” (line 6). Hayden's dark tone is brought about through the words he uses and as it echos throughout the poem the relationship between the father and his son is described. The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11).
Ironically the “cloudless day” is far from perfect. The insignificant noises of the home that mark off a normal domestic day, the “talk back radio, children’s voices and the shriek of the boil” are important when explaining the individual’s normal routine every day. The personification of “shriek” creates an extremely negative impact on what is actually happening to his woman. Consequently her voice becomes the voice of one who is no longer rational and reasoned. The “scream” and cry for help serves as justification to marginalise her and the fact that she will always go unnoticed and
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.