In, Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, many symbols suddenly creep their way into the pages, fog being one of them. ... Heart of Darkness contains many symbols throughout it that have much more meaning that they appear to have. ... In most stories and novels black is the symbolic color of death or sadness, loneliness or greed, but the color that represents those words in Heart of Darkness is white. ... The Thames and Congo River are a big symbol in Heart of Darkness. ... The most important symbol in the novel Heart of Darkness is darkness itself. ...

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In his poem "Darkness,"" George Gordon, Lord Byron addresses the mortality of human beings and animals through a vivid description of the destruction of life on earth. ... Whether one lives in the "palaces of crowned kings- (11) or "huts- (11), "all hearts/Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light... Although "Darkness- is gruesomely depicting the end of the world, the dog continues to show kindness, loyalty, and love towards a dead master, despite threats, fire, and famine. ...

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In his poem "Darkness,"" George Gordon, Lord Byron addresses the mortality of human beings and animals through a vivid description of the destruction of life on earth. ... Whether one lives in the "palaces of crowned kings- (11) or "huts- (11), "all hearts/Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light... Although "Darkness- is gruesomely depicting the end of the world, the dog continues to show kindness, loyalty, and love towards a dead master, despite threats, fire, and famine. ...

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In poem 7 from In Memoriam, there are images of darkness and loneliness. The "dark house", the "long unlovely street", and "doors where his heart used to beat" are images that depict loneliness and darkness. ...

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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 themes exposed in each poem reveal to a great extent Rosetti's beliefs and moral ideals as well as her views of life and any inclination she may have 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...

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Upon meeting Lucie Manette, he manages to see beyond the irascible fazade he has created for himself to discover a kind heart, capable of feeling. In John Knowles' A Separate Peace, Gene never learns of the existence and power of the darkness existing within him. ... Through a rather extraordinary succession of events, those unascertained dark feelings in Gene cause Finny s death. ...

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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." ... He says that when thoughts of death come "over thy spirit" and makes you "grow sick at heart" you should go out "under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." When feeling scared of death just listen to nature whom, with it's soothing sounds, will calm your heart until that day in which nature "claim(s) they growth" and are "resolved back to the earth again" in which you "mix forever with the elements...

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"This wary aristocratic mole- is the mother saying that the daughter is an untrusting mammal of nobility, as moles have dark silvery fur and her daughter is dressed in head to toe in gray. ... We see where the mother is feeling hurt again by what she sees next: "The Chateaubriand arrived on a bone-white plate, smug and absolute in its fragrant crust, a black plug steaming like the heart plucked from the chest of a worthy enemy; one touch with her fork sent pink juices streaming."" We see here that "The Chateaubriand- is a represent...

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Political events and wartime images for history sake also reached our senses resulting to having a feeling of connection induced in our heart and mind. ... Interestingly, a pug nosed, short, and dark woman seeming to be a humble and sincere person is excluded out of the focused zone and also the policeman in the same axis as with the cardinal suggesting the connection between church and state. ... The zone focusing is concentrated on the woman overwhelmed, the man kissing the cardinal's hand and the pug nosed, dark, short woman, yet the extensive depth of field (at a peripheral level) als...

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You can't be happy and bright all the time like Emerson and Thoreau pretend to be, and you can't always be dark and pessimistic like Melville and Hawthorne. ... You don't have to go into nature to find your true self you just have to listen to your heart or your intuition. ... We all have something dark in our pasts that we hide from people. ...

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The sky mimics Monet, painted dark blue with the northern lights scourging the sky with bright mystical colors. ... It is dark and lonely. ... Please God, help me through this pain that burns my heart. ... These memories fill my heart and mind with every passing minute. ...

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In the book it explains that in the final judgment, the confessions of the heart will be weighed based on how pure their heart is. ... There innocence is judged just by the weight of there heart, which is why that is the only organ left after mummification. If there heart is correctly balanced, the dead will be provided with a new body and allowed entry to the Field of Rushes and provided eternal sustenance. If the heart is heavy with guilt of breaking one or more of the thirteen others, you are given a second death, devoured by the monster Ament. ... In Mesopotamia their underworld was gl...

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Despite the normal memories and feelings of pain, hurt, and darkness that shadow death, the narrator's views remain optimistic and happy due to the loving memories he possesses for the Athlete. ... Directly following is the dark emotions of the widow: "But the grief in my heart is stronger than they/ for though they were my joy/ formerly, today I notice them/ and turned away forgetting." ... Ironically, due to the hardening of her heart by the memories of the death of her husband, springtime is associated with pain and sorrow. ... Beyond the first metaphor: "Sorrow is my own yard ...

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An emotional battle within ones heart often leads to self-destruction. When darker forces of the human nature inwardly harass one, one is forced by the evilness of desire that leads to competition and being an introvert. ... Gene's inner war was ignorance in the state of the human heart. ...

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Through the use of metaphors and similes, Shapiro is able to swing the mood of the poem into a dark, pessimistic view of death. In the line, "Pulsing out red light like an artery" (3), the author references to a strong, beating heart, and subsequently life. ...

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Turn, Turn, Turn Wallace Stevens's poem "The Death of a Soldier" illustrates life and death in both the natural and human world. Steven's structure and rhythm contribute to the poem. The stern tone, disorder of trochees and uncertainties: fuel the reader's awareness plus desire to know. Negative...

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This is a cold-hearted mother filled with resentment for her children and her husband. ... Addie was a cold-hearted mother in many ways. ... This is how this woman can be related to Kurtz from Heart of Darkness. ... Though Addie's cold heart, resentment of her family, and terrible concept of nothing left her with an unfortunate life I felt she deserved a more painful death. ...

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Also, the spiritual darkness of the house can be seen in how an Aboriginal man who enters the library immediately flees the house, even leaving the firewood he was about to sell as "Lest saw his eyes suddenly widen something clicked in the man's throat. ... This upbringing has hardened her, and this can be seen in how even when she is making love for the first time with Toby, her hardness has been ingrained into the "recesses of her heart" and also in how she hates her mother. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way t...

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In "The Story of An Hour", Kate Chopin makes use of the setting, symbols, as well as her choice of words to show the realization and change in perception of the main character. The main character, Mrs. Mallard is informed that her husband, Brently Mallard has been killed in a railroad disaster. Upon...

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I just couldn't tell her the death that he like so many others had died; the long slow painful path to darkness. ... The food was terrible, the medical care had no heart and lacked all enthusiasm to save lives. ...

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As the geographical heart of the United States, Ohio has an ability to provoke the imaginations of many. ... Such lines as "She should be warmly bonneted, / a long, dark woolen skirt around her calves ." and " skimming on wooden blades ." would actually serve to confuse the reader about the time period in which the action takes place. ...

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In the third part Wordsworth finds redeems that vanity with the love of his sister who is pure of heart with nature. ... For someone who lived a short life understood that the nature's purpose in our Universe was not to depress or inconvenience us with darkness but it was essential to the cycle and to life. ...

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A theme that is covered in various stories is the theme that even if people appear happy on the outside, on the inside there is almost always some sorrow either hidden deep in their heart and soul or being shown to people of the world. ... They worked out the problem and got married and adopted children and she found that "there was love in his embrace and love in his words and in her heart there was no room now for doubt, no room for sorrow."" ... It was her Sunday treat but today she passed the baker's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room and sat down on her eiderdo...

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Similar to a heart monitor the way it jumps and drops with your heartbeat. ... Well if we're referring to your heart monitor of course that would mean you are no longer alive. ... I believe that the poems "Greed" by Philip Schultz and "The Secretary Chant" by Marge Piercy are contrasting deeply in the sense that "Greed" shows the rollercoaster effect maintaining a sense of hope and understanding of happiness while "The Secretary Chant" shows the dark side of society as rock bottom - a place where there is no light at the end of the tunnel. ... Does...

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Only in a dark room does a thin ray of light shine its brightest. In today's day and age, we see such rays in absolute bewilderment as the darkness in our world only seems to get more ill-lighted. ... The sympathetic individual would be the first one to attempt to reconcile the shattered heart of his or her friend. ... Souls that chose to take the generosity in their heart and cultivate it in such a way, that it grows and blooms into a beautiful flower, one that can never die if they continue to water it with the respect they receive from all the good that they do; thus, once again provi...

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