Basically talking about his lost love, self-torture and about being consumed by his past. To me I think writing was Poe’s way of coping with his wife death ,because it provided him with his own insane characters with similar pain for him to deal with, as opposed to detraction from his own pain so that he could come with these much the same with his on life. The poem setting seems like it’s midnight in a dark room where the protagonist wife has past away and he is in a terrible sate of grief and misery and all he wants is to bring her back, but he can’t, and he knows this. Then with doubt and fear he locks himself up inside this dark room, filled with darkness and hopelessness in the middle of the night and while he’s alone by himself, he hears the raven who I thinks is his subconscious also death. He wants the raven to deliver Lenore to him or show him to her, but the raven only mocks him seems like and shows’ him how no one waits for you after death, you are all by yourself.
The poem is set on New Year’s eve, and the end of the 19th century. The protagonist of the poem, the man, paints the scene as twilight dusk; ‘the weakening eye of day’, and except for the bird, he is isolated from those who ‘sought their household fires’. The use of the line ‘the weakening eye of day’ not only suggests dusk, but also, specifically the word ‘weakening’ is a reflection as to how the man sees himself, and the earth. The second stanza continues in the same manner, with more dark, somber words like ‘germ’ and ‘death-lament’. ‘The land’s sharp features’ reinforces a feeling of pain, with the alliteration of ‘his crypt the cloudy canopy’ intensifying this.
How does Hill create a sense of terror for the reader towards the end of chapter 'In the Nursery'? Hill starts the chapter with references to the weather and this may be used to create a contrast later on in the book. The “blue skies”, are a stark contrast to the grey imposing ‘Eel Marsh House’, and the “sunshine” is a contrast with the gruelling task which Arthur Kipps has to carry out. Even Arthur’s emotions regarding the house seem to be connected with the weather as when the mists are over and around the house Arthur seems to be scared and worries about the things throughout the house. 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.
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.
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Fall of House of Usher,” Poe wrote constantly of the motifs of the heart, as well as that of madness and insanity. These two works feature elements of lost love and the pain one can feel as a result of a traumatic loss. In the powerful poem “The Raven,” the story tells of a distraught lover; the reader follows the man’s decent into a world of madness. As he displays the loss of his love, Lenore, as the story continues he goes through a world of pain, he sits in a room shut off from the world he once knew, feeling lonely and heartless. 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.
They seem to live in a twilight world where light does not penetrate. In the early part of the play, as the couple appear to be successful in their ambitions, night predominates as evil struggles with good. The climax is reached when we see Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, a candle constantly by her side. She is mentally disturbed, cut off from humanity, obsessed with the evil the two committed. In the same way, Macbeth also uses imagery related to light and darkness as the play nears its end and the re-establishment of good becomes inevitable.
I must admit, it was tempting at first but I made it this far without one I’m not going mess that up. So they bring out the beers, the smokes is already clogging up my apartment living room like if I as I was in a fog. I had to stay away from the alcohol, good thing I gave up alcohol for lent for forty days. Just the only thing that was bothering me was the second hand smoke I was getting. The smell was so great, my mind had again told me “No it’s bad for you, you don’t need it”.
The only love that is epitomized in the novel is that of the self, which proved to be perhaps its most gothic aspect. However it does consist of many classic gothic elements. One of its most striking devices is the gothic atmosphere that surrounds the novel on instances such as when Dorian is taking Basil to the room where he hides the notorious painting and the light from the lantern causes shadows on the walls and the wind rattles the windows. Another instance is when Dorian tries to visit the opium den; “A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist. The public-houses were just closing, and dim men and women were clustering in broken groups round their doors.
As an example, in the first verse, he uses enjambment to help the reader feel as lost or disjointed as he does at the time just before he falls asleep: “I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way, however straight, Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.” Themes in this poem include sleep: first defined as resting, alluring as a deep, dark forest, and then as death, unavoidable yet perhaps pleasant after the difficult tasks of life. Thomas refers to the towering foliage in the final verse, using imagery as he states that it is structured "shelf above shelf." He then states "That I may lose my way/And myself," which indicates a surrendering to either death or sleep, whichever theme by this point that the reader feels is most congruent. It seems that when the author suggests the "foliage lowers," he might be suggesting that nature is enveloping him once more, as we return to dust in death. As with much of Thomas's poetry, this piece deals vaguely in human alienation, or at least solitude, as man must go to sleep--or his death--essentially alone.
In the poem “Short Time” by Jaime An Lim, the writer tells the story of a persona and a one night stand. The poem begins at night in alleys and parks—public domain—and then eventually transitioning to a much more private place, as derived from “thin walls, thinning mattresses” wherein the persona and the addressee engage in what appears to be physical, sexual activity. However, once the morning comes, despite the intimate sexual encounter that took place the previous night, the persona is left alone to bask in his/her own loneliness. In the first stanza, the persona is seen to be observing the men “hanging out at night / in all the parks and alleys of the world.” The persona is “haunted” by their “sadness” and recognizes the looks on their faces conveying “a whole vocabulary of need.” This indicates the calculative aura of these men, who “wait and meander / weighing, measuring” whether or not to satisfy their sexual needs despite the consequences. In the second stanza, the scenery abruptly changes from alleys and parks to “thin walls, thinning mattresses” suggesting that the persona and the then introduced addressee have moved to a private location, most likely a motel room.