The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
These words soft pity in the chief inspire, Touch’d with the dear remembrance of his sire. Then with his hand (as prostrate still he lay) The old man’s cheek he gently turn’d away. Now each by turns indulged the gush of woe; And now the mingled tides together flow: This low on earth, that gently bending o’er, A father one, and one a son deplore: But great Achilles different passions rend, And now his sire he mourns, and now his friend. Th’ infectious softness through the heroes ran; One universal solemn shower began; They bore as heroes, but they felt as man. XXIV.
The secret has eaten him alive and he is never able to recover and forgive himself. When his family finally finds out about the lie, they are astonished, shocked, and hurt. Paul says “Don't be bitter? We visited her grave!” (Edwards 382). Him and his mother can not forgive David because he has made them both miss out on the daughter and sister
Likewise in Old Man Thomas says “only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end” implying also a sad future. ”Without end” tells us that he feels he will never be able to escape unhappiness and feels trapped. A feeling of failure and
As we follow the narrator’s fast decent into madness and loneliness, he keeps mentioning how heartless he realizes now that his lover is gone. “So that now it is so still I feel the beating of my heart”(“The Raven”464). This starts the beginning of the narrator’s decent into madness. He realizes the room that once was filled with love, has become a dark and silent room.
I fell to the floor sobbing knowing my life would never be the same. That’s what happened that horrible night in October after receiving a phone call from my step-aunt saying my grandfather had just passed away. I knew my life was going to change significantly. I started to rebel, it tore my family apart, and everyone looked for signs that he was still with us somewhere, somehow. Death of a loved one has a negative impact on everyone who loved that person.
(198; ch. 25). This quote shows that he still wishes and/or thinks that Allie was still with him. Many may think that this is the start to the road of Holden's depression. As shown, Holden is depressed in many ways: he fails in life, he is lonesome, and he still is affected by his brother's death.
“ This day I ceased to plead…My eyes were open and I was alone-terribly alone in a world without God…without love or mercy” (Wiesel,65). This quote shows Elie beginning to lose his faith, and therefore his hope. He has suffered so much that he has stopped trying to escape the darkness, he has embraced it. As a result of this tumultuous time in his life, Elie is forever changed. He says "The night was gone.
ENGLISH STANDARD-INTO THE WORLD As the story begins 21 weeks after the accident Tom is in a state of shock and grief. He is constantly numb with despair. He restrains all his pain silently inside and is reluctant to continue his life shown through the statement “Bad thoughts... suffocated any hope I had of getting my life back.” The uses of flashbacks show his memories of Daniels previously erratic behaviour, “He just got away with it”. He constantly recalls the accident, “I was sucked deeper into that long black tunnel”. When Tom received an email from Matt, he deletes it, as he cannot express the overpowering emotions he kept inside.
Our sympathy further develops towards the end of the play. Macbeth realised he has lost everything he had and all his potential. In another soliloquy he says, "And that which should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have" The audience feel great sympathy for Macbeth in this scene. He feels extremly depressed as he is left alone without any supporters and he realises no-one wants to help him anymore. People are beginning to tuen against him and he feel she has nothing left to live for.