Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the poem because the creature is "non-reasoning" and capable of speech. In the poem the narrator transforms the bird into both an instrument of self-torture and a symbol of his personal mourning. Poe gives the raven human characteristics of speech. This is an example of personification. 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.
Collins has a strong sense of reality about death in how it is not always fair. In the poem entitled “On The Death Of A Next-Door Neighbor,” Collins explains death through the use of personification, “If only death had consulted his cracked leather map, / then bent to wipe the fog / from the windshield with an empty sleeve” (71). Collins personifies death by giving it human actions and need of assistance, but having no body, to show that it is only with us in spirit. This poem portrays death by showing that it is not to be feared, but rather accepted, because it is in everyone’s future. Making death into a person is a creative technique because it makes it so real.
The narrator viewed the shrouded bodies in their solemn slumbers with the worms. The significance is he saw a vast number changed to an uneasy position in which they had originally been entombed. 7. The narrator’s mental state becomes unstrung and he falls in a prey to perpetual horror. His actions are rational, because he hesitated to ride, walk, or to participate in any exercise that would carry him home.
The repetitive connection of the first line with the last blink blink Cemetery silence reflects both the reality of the cycle of life as well as its temporal nature. In death the absence of social restriction is emphasise through the listening of no responsible obligations or concerns. Through this technique the poet indicates the loneliness and emptiness of life as he sees it. Here the concept of identity seems to be lack of identity emptiness constructed through a negative reaction and cynicism about th
Literary Commentary In “July Man”, Margaret Avison delineates a bleak mood of sorrow and nostalgia for the beauty of the past through intricate diction, specifically the choice of adjectives, and sound. The morose image portrayed by the poet’s words reinforces the theme of the decomposition of nature and humanity. The structure of the poem is chaotic and spontaneous as there is no specific rhyme scheme and the length of the lines randomly alternate. Being a free verse poem perfectly fits the theme of decomposition for no order or structured standards are followed anymore and all aspects are breaking down, including the poem’s own stanzas. The stanzas are of extreme natures with the first one being nineteen lines long and the following one
The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's real quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear” (O'Brien 116). Because O'Brien creates a character who radiates coldness but who opens his heart when he tells a story, there is a huge contrast. In this way, the narrator succeeds in creating a channel with which he shows just how much war can make people open up to themselves, thus making the confusion of battle inevitable. Towards the end of The Things They Carried, O'Brien explains that, in Norman Bowker's case, “if things had gone right, if it hadn't been for that smell, [he] could've won the Silver Star” (O'Brien 143).
When in London because of the smog you can’t see anything so you feel trapped and confined like in Eel Marsh House, Kipps calls it ‘like a game of blind man’s buff’, this shows how Kipps feels about having his senses trapped and locked out. ‘what figures I could make out...were like ghost figures’ as the fog blinds and the setting is glum and doom this again refers back to how Kipps is a realistic man and doesn’t believe in ghosts so uses this example as if ghosts were not real, Hill also uses the technique of foreshadowing to refer what happens later in the novel. This also relates to how Kipps is feeling when referring back to the thought of the Woman in Black appearing when he visited Crythin Gifford. Pathetic Fallacy also sets the setting of a normal day in London, and how the ‘the miserable weather and lowering to the spirits in the dreariest month of the year’, when Hill refers to the weather using pathetic fallacy she creates the mood to be very miserable and upsetting, like there is no positive side to Crythin Gifford. ‘Dreariest month of the year’ suggests that the town is quite dreary and is like how the houses and people of the town are seen.
Ethan is influenced by his grim surroundings and becomes a bitter, melancholy man. A lot of his sad nature has to do with his surroundings, as the barren and empty characteristics of Starkfield have forced Ethan to become bitter and pitiful. At the beginning of the story the narrator clearly states Starkfield’s influence on Ethan’s appearance: “He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.” (Wharton 13) A character’s attributes depend on the location he grows up on. His face looks as gloomy as the night, cheerless and bleak.
In the chapter called 'Across the Causeway', the writer creates tension by using an isolated burial ground, which makes the reader focus on the sense of isolation. The fact that Arthur Kipps is in an unknown, mysterious place accentuates tension, because the word "burial" makes us think about death and loneliness which creates apprehension and tension in the reader's mind. Also, the word "isolated" suggests that you're alone and this creates tension because it implies a feeling of discomfort and insecurity. Furthermore, the burial ground is described as "decayed", and this makes me think about a abandoned decomposing corpse, and this fact means that this place is not visited often and that it is in a state of total ruin. This idea is supported by the fact that this burial ground is "enclosed by the remains of walls".
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.