Death has been looked at in many different ways by different people. ... Bryant portrays nature as a woman who is here to provide comfort for us in our "gayer hours" or in times of our "darker musings." ... In Bryant's poem, he tells his audience that one should not be afraid of death because death itself is a part of nature. ... Bryant refers to death as the "innumerable caravan" and "darkness." Shakespeare's soliloquy refers to death as a "sleep." ...

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In Edgar Allan Poe's poems he writes about death and darkness. Throughout his poems, "The Raven" and "The Bells", Poe writes of death, darkness, and evil. ... Also, some feel that Poe writes about death and darkness because of his drinking problems he had. ... So you can see how Poe used darkness and evil to portray a sense of fear and death. ... He began to write of death, evil, and darkness. ...

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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. ... Within the poem Poe divides the characters and imagery into two conflicting aspects of light and dark. ... However, The Raven, as well as the dreary December night shows signs of darkness. These images of light and darkness go even further to represent life and death, the man's hope of an afterlife with Lenore and his fear of everlasting loneliness. ... Without these elements the reader may have never fully recognized Poe's theme of death and sadness. ...

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In the first poem, Keats fears death; however, he accepts death as it is, and this releases his fears from death. ... / O darkness! Darkness! ... Darkness! ... In "Why did I laugh to-night", the sentence "Yet would I on this very midnight cease," (11) lets us picture that Keats is being alone in the dark black night accepting his impending death. ...

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This adds death and darkness to his poetry. ... The woods are a metaphor for death and in the poem his calls death "lovely.... " The themes of darkness, death and New England are seen throughout Robert Frost's poetry. ... " This line is so dark because it is the end of the world which entails a death and destruction. ... Frost is asking why continue with that when we can rest in "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep," The woods are a metaphor for death. ...

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At the start of line twenty-five the poem stops making nice imagery and allusions, and turns to a more dark somber piece. The poet talks a lot about solitude and death. ... They all pertain to death and his mistress being the one who is dead. ... The poems shift form light-hearted to dark and dreary gives the reader a better understanding of how the poet might feel at this time. ... It makes one feel quite sad for this poet who loved his mistress so much and now can only speak of her in death. ...

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"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." ... By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... The threatening image in line 5 of the "broadening darkness" is almost one of omnipotence, as it is described as "loftier still". ... This suggests that the claim that she leans toward the "dark side" is to an extent justified. ... The language in this poem is unsurprisingly full of images and connotations of death and funerals. ...

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In Frost's Poem, the setting is a deep dark forest filled with white fluffy snow. ... Another theme, oddly enough, is death. ... Other themes are not as easy to pick out, such as the theme of deepness and darkness. ... Both are deep and dark, but represent different things. The woods represent life, while the sea represents death. ...

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BEFORE DYING "Death is not darkness; it is just putting of candle because dawn is here." ... As a result implying our growth in life and then accepting death, for life was fully lived and experienced like the stubble in the field. ... The poem subtly and continuously plays beauty, desire, life and colour against grey death(darkness). ... The third verse begins by very beautifully contrasting the proximity of death to life, how the "wild duck" being so near to death yet escapes the "hunter's shot" and "take wing into the horizon's mild blue moonlight glow". ... "We have seen the gr...

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The subject of "Sonnet 147" is a man disgusted with his longing for a dark woman, yet he can't resist her. ... The subject is going crazy with desire for this dark lady, but he mentions how he was rejected when he told of his true feelings. ... He realizes that this dark woman he had previously thought was a wonderful person, is truly a cruel individual. ... "Desire is death, which physic did except- Shakespeare brings up death to impart the imperativeness of the subject's disease, which is really just another feeling, that of depression. ... The dark lady's rejection of ...

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The "dark summer dawns"(11), shows an end to the beauty that was once rich and beautiful, and then the entrance into a world of cold and darkness. The chirp of newborn birds shows the coming of new life, but the author doesn't care because of the death in front of him. ... He describes the death as "sad and strange"(11), because the death has been untimely to his eyes. ...

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This creates a lyrical, jaunty rhythm, contrasting with the dark themes and sensory imagery of the poem. ... Here the poet brutally reminds us that death and decay is inevitable. ... Being unable to hear sound, death for the Betjeman's father is the ultimate form of deafness. ... His relationship with humanity and his dark obsessive relationship with the body of a human woman, are portrayed through the dramatic monologue of the entire poem, written in free verse, with an inconsistent rhyme scheme. ... This use of rhyming couplets in free verse, although different to Betjeman's use ...

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Them the end of the day is announced with the evening bell and darkness will be coming soon. ... He uses the metaphor of the sunset and evening star to compare his call to death, because the daylight represents life, and the darkness represents death. ... Being near his death, he does not want anyone mourning his death. ... With the sounds of the waves hitting the sandbar, to sounds of mourning after a death of a loved one. ... Death is not a matter that should be taken lightly. ...

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The title itself, "Acquainted with the Night," suggests that the speaker's mood is calmed by the darkness as he walks to the "farthest city light"(line 3). ... In the poem, the narrator has come face to face with death, in which night symbolizes death. ... The clock shows the narrator his uncertainty about death, or when the angel of death will look him in the eye. The speaker is only "Acquainted with Night" and left in a state of darkness. ... Love and death are two inevitable things in a person's life. ...

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Now we have a lake, and the dark night sky. ... Woods are common images of darkness or mystery; they have a sense of the unknown in them. ... It is clear that Frost is using the woods, the snow, the night, and the lake, to represent death, and the afterlife. ... The darkness of the night is death. ... He must continue through life, into death. ...

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Addressed to the poet's father as he approaches blindness and death. ... They know "dark is right" because they know what to look for at the end of life. ... Do not accept death passively. Live intensely and resist death passionately. All the beautifully contrasting metaphors where Thomas's way of gracefully asking his father not to leave him alone, in the dark. ...

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Few subjects can be discussed with more insightfulness and curiosity than death. ... " Down the dark one ruby flare, pulsing out red light like an artery." ... Contrasting images of dark and light are intensified once the ambulance reaches the scene of the accident. ... Shapiro questions death, as to who dies next and for what reason. ... The poem, "Auto Wreck" is not just about a mere car accident, but a certain death, which we all face inevitably. ...

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Stand By Me begins with an extreme long shot of a middle aged man called Gordy, who is sitting in a jeep with in the countryside, reminiscing about the death of his brother. ... It is clear that his death had a major impact on him and that death is realistic. ... The third line of the poem "in sunshine and in shadow" reinforces this, the word shadow being used to contrast the light from the dark. ... This use of figurative language implies the death of the knight. Poe's use of the word "shadow" in every stanza all shared the universal meaning of negativity and darkness...

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The literary merits of Poe's writings have been disputed since his death, but his works have remained popular. ... Poe's work, although bleak and often dark, flowed with an ingenious style unique to him. ... This poem is so completely balanced and whole that it is timeless; the omens of death run deep in this tale of horror. ... His works romanticize darkness and the boundaries of the human mind; they probe the depths of human nature to the extent of chaos. ... The dark, chaotic, and romantic worlds that he created offered an escape from what is real. ...

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The poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats, is about life and death. ... In these opening words, the author uses the word "fear" which indicates that he does not have a positive view of death. ... The poem reflects the literary period because it speaks of death. Words like "night", "star", "shadow" reflect the darker mood of the period. The subject of death is also gloomy and appropriate to the era. ...

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Furthermore, Frost made many contributions to literature through life's Choices, death and desire, and obligation in his poems. ... Frost also contributes the meaning of death and desire in "After Apple Picking" by combing death and the need for rest in life. In the story its not just necessary talking about death in general, but the need for a stopping point in life which could be death. ... The usage of death and desire gives the reader a since of loneliness and need. ... He shows that the doctor in the poem feels to be in a dark point of his life. ...

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His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. Poe's brain, on the other hand, worked on a different, more darker, wavelength than others. ... Then I opened the door wide, and there was only darkness and nothing else (23-24). I stood there for a long time, peering deep into that darkness, wondering, fearing, doubting and dreaming dreams no being ever dared to dream before (25-26). The silence remained unremitting and the darkness gave no sign (27). ...

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The fire of the tiger's eyes in the dark night forest shows a contrast between light and dark. ... This poem, one of four "Lucy" poems included in the second volume of "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), describes the poets premonition of death as he travels towards Lucy's house. The language immediately creates a sense of foreboding, or dark prophesy: "strange fits" of passion of which the poet "dare's" to tell. ... The natural path of the moon rising and falling each night also mirrors the organic cycle of birth and growth, decay and death in the world. Wordsworth's descrip...

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The last stanza of the poem says "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep" I believe perhaps the best support for the contemplating suicide theory. Imagining how simply killing ones self may bring on a certain peace, "lovely, dark and deep". ... Finally stating, "miles to go before I sleep", indicating the authors realization that there is much left to do before inevitable death. ...

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The harsh and dark realities of life are expressed in Frost's poem "Out, Out". This is a deeply shocking and sad poem which was inspired by the tragic death of a young boy. ... When we are walking in darkness par se, we shouldn't be "unwilling to explain", or ignore an "interrupted cry" – we should reach out. ... It is a Petrarchan sonnet which presents us with the dark face of the natural world. ... This is a paradoxical image as we usually associate white with innocence and purity, however in this instance, it's representative of death and d...

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