The poem is suggesting that the modern city is in a state of "winter" and has lost its direction and vitality. The poet builds on this image to suggest a further delineation of the modern state of mental societal decadence. The image of " smell of steaks" paints a picture of a polluted and mundane environment. The fourth line emphasizes this feeling of loss of vitality coupled with urban squalor. The day, and the society, is associated with an image of a burnt-out (read loss of energy) cigarette end.
Literary Analysis of Night and Nervous Conditions "Every question [possesses] a power that [is] lost in the answer" (Night). Night focuses on the conflicts of mysticism and conventional religion, of belief during tribulation, and of individual humanity in the most destitute situations. Contrastingly, Nervous Conditions questions the power of the individual struggling against a society that encourages self-subjugation and passive acceptance. Despite this apparent difference in analytical goal, both ultimately pose questions that force the reader to confront his own ideas regarding life, death, and the Meaning behind our existence. Night challenges the conventions of institutionalized religion and institutionalized belief.
Running into headlights. Running into the silence of death.” The anaphora of ‘running’ highlights his emotional devastation which shows Tom's paranoia and frustration in the initial stages of the novel. As a result of the crisis, Tom responds adversely to a new start at Coghill. 3. The motif of darkness is frequently used to demonstrate a condition of misery and downhearted: “There aren’t words to say how black and empty pain felt.
It shows that he is willing to go through lots of stuggle in order to achieve his goal. Once he found out the bad news of Rosa’s untimely death “he had a vision of anger spreading through him like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of his life” (Allende pg 36). Trueba decided to leave to the countryside after Rosa’s death. Heading south indicates that Trueba is “digging deep into his own subconscious,” (Foster pg 170) trying to escape the city and all the bad memories he has there. “Literary geography is typically about humans inhabiting spaces, and at the same time the spaces that inhabit humans” (Foster pg 166).
He describes death as being, "the profile of night Ortiz 3 slanted against morning"(590)”. This metaphor causes death to become something unknown, unseen and unfamiliar. Komunyakaa suggests that death is like nighttime; it is dark and, therefore, has a feeling of unfamiliarity about it. As a result, Yusef Komunyakaa presents death as something we should fear and fight against, while Woody Allen presents death as a natural inevitability we must all face. In the short story, “The Red Convertible,” by Louise Erdrich, death is represented in an unexpected situation.
John Foulcher Speech Have you ever really thought about death? It happens every day…. Death creates an image of demise and loss, which often brings to mind dark colours and vehement feelings… these figures also portray an image of violence. Death can be described as a violent act of life… and so for this reason, violence can be seen as inherent in life… John Foulcher presents this theme in both his powerful poems “For the Fire” and “Kangaroos Near Hay”. He uses a variety of effective literary devices to further explore this idea.
These intense moments include discovering death, which is expressed through the poem “South of my days” and “Looking for Alibrandi”, this is also a negative discovery, The idea that times and memories are lost when people pass. Another discovery made is the discovery of something shocking, experienced in “Martin and the hand grenade” and “Looking for Alibrandi.” This would be a negative discovery too. These composers use a variety of techniques to show these intense discoveries and moments such as imagery, personification, metaphors, similes and alliteration.
“Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb.”(Shakespeare, 2.4. 9-10) Ross talks about how the night has taken over the day light, in other words darkness is taking over all the good that was once there and soon there will be no light left, so evil will take over all the good. Pathetic fallacy plays a huge role in this play. It brings out the supernatural element much more with the use of thunder and darkness, which also gives off an evil vibe, pathetic fallacy also makes these scenes much more intense and mysterious because the use of the thunder and lightning usually appears when an evil act is about to take place. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing in the play to build up the suspense of the unknown, and hint at events that might take place in the future.
Analysis of ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ by T.S. Eliot ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ demonstrates the protagonist’s alienation from society by using complex imagery to evoke a response from the audience. It is a typical Eliot poem, portraying the hopelessness of society, and how it slowly degrading to be empty, desolate. There is a’ crowd of twisted things’, including a broken spring (symbol of resilience), of which the persona recalls that “rust clings to the form that the strength has left.” This particular line creates a lasting image of a society sapped of moral and physical energy. The persona of the poem is walking, alone on a street and neglected from society.
The line exemplifies Eliot's own thoughts of society, which he believed was disintegrating, as the man's lack of sanity is a reflection of the world's own descent into chaos. In Rhapsody, Eliot writes “Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left/ Hard and curled and ready to snap” using imagery to build a tense atmosphere. Consequently, he is able to further his idea of a decaying society; the language used and the meter also build tension and also convey a sense of the rapidly disintegrating society. This belief that society is decaying is still present today, events like the Arab Spring are an example of this societal disintegration and continually evoke an emotional response from society as a whole. Susbsequently poems like Rhapsody remain relevant.