Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" is a good poem that involves thoughts of life and death. ... The idea of a setting sun is a fact of slumber on a cold dark night. ... It is evident that death can creep up on his client. ... Eternity and death are two important characteristics in Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death." ... Dickinson believed in an eternity after death. ...

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They both had complete control over Judy, and that was what leads to her death. ... All the death in the film gives the movie a very dark and disturbing tone. ... This film portrays love in a dark tone and gives the audience a sense of melancholy. The soundtrack of the film also helps portray the dark feeling of the movie. ... Modleski brings attention to the darkness of the film and how the repetition adds to the dark tone. ...

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The "visage of war" sees only death, and speaks only death. ... The symbolism in "Face of War" strongly shows the dark aspects of war. ... Dalí chose dull colors like brown, black, and dark orange, which show sadness and misery. ... He wanted to show how war is terrible and by using dark and dull colors, he does just that. ... Dark orange represents deceit and distrust. ...

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Edvard finally found a release for the pain he felt from his sister's death. ... Every time he lost someone his paintings became darker and darker. ... The dark red of the dying sunlight almost make you think it was painted with blood. The dark blue and black of the hills seem to be melting as the light gives way. The pasty skinned man looking with empty eyes, almost as if death himself were standing on the canvas. ...

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The death of his father was not the only time Elie lost faith in family, his mother and sister were gone and he never though about them. ... "Don' t waste your tears ... " "Not cry We're on the threshold of death. ... " I watched darkness fade through the bluish skylights in the roof . ... The last way that leads to Wiesel's emotional death is the Elie's loss of his faith in God. ... The lost of faith in these three things, innocence, family and God, all contribute to the emotional death of Elie at the end of the book. ...

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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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That makes those three lines The first stanza straight from the start gives off a dark feeling as you read it. Our speaker calls herself a "possessed witch/haunting the black air " (1-2) and by this she means she thinks she's kind of crazy or going crazy and the witch is more a symbol of darkness because when people think of witches they think of dark and lonely creatures. The second line just adds to the creepiness and darkness the witch brings. Black air just sounds dark and cold. ... She is not only accepting death but is welcoming it because death would be better then the life s...

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In John Knowles' A Separate Peace, Gene never learns of the existence and power of the darkness existing within him. Thus, he never learns to deal and control that force, which leads to the harm and eventual death of his best friend. ... Through a rather extraordinary succession of events, those unascertained dark feelings in Gene cause Finny s death. ...

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Dealing with the death of a child, Frost shows the rift that human emotion may make on a bond as strong as marriage. ... Frost composed Home Burial using dark tones, casual language, and a powerful dialog. Not using common poetic tools such as rhyme or rhythm, frost relies on the emotional conflict and dark subject to captivate the reader. Though it has a dark tone, anger and frustration are just as apparent. ...

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His themes universal- The stages of life, love and Death. Munch's own death and disease touched life. ... Munch was both fascinated and terrified by death. ... In his picture Jealousy, Munch explored the dark side of love. ... His first personal painful image was The Sick Child which exploring the darkness of his youth. ...

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There is also the image of darkness which continues the idea of the unknown. The narrator notices that "[The neighbor] moves in darkness...".(pg. 29 l. 41) This darkness represents what the narrator doesn't know of his neighbor. ... They know nothing of each other, and this is shown through the use of light vs. darkness. ... This obscured view is caused by the darkness. ...

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The darkness of the tunnel carried the uncertainty that one may come out alive or never come out at all. The darkness didn't just lay in the tunnel, it was all around the soldiers. The darkness laid wait behind each bush, each village, each foxhole, each and every time they went out into the unknown there was a darkness that plagued them. ... He let go of all the weight that she gave him an uncertain love that drove him crazy and caused the death of too many of his men. ... "Imagination was a killer," imagination caused the death of Ted Lavender from his drugs that departs him...

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Interestingly, she achieved fame only after her death in 1886. ... The pain is encased in one's nerves and heart much like death is encased in a tomb. It is a feeling that leaves her "stiff heart" dark, cold and devoid of any other emotion. ... When reading this poem, anyone can relate a broken heart or a death in the family to the very feelings that she so powerfully communicates. ...

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Centre on themes such as love, time, birth, death and the purpose of life in these poems. ... In her final poem Company of Lovers, Judith writes about love and companionship, time is inevitable and death, she talks about these things like it has happened to her or to some one she knows. ... The last technique I noticed was a metaphor on the word night, Which means, a dark patch in their lives or troubles. ...

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he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her. " These daydreams of Martha keep him constantly distracted until the death of one of his men. ... Lieutenant Cross portrays his emotional misery over Martha towards the beginning of the story: "A dark theater, he remembered...when he touched her knee, she turned and looked at him in a sad, sober way that made him pull his hand back, but he would always remember the feel of the tweed skirt and the knee beneath it how embarrassing it was, how slow and oppressive." ... Cross gets informed of the death of Ted Lavender, one of his men. ... He blames...

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The Chinese folktale, "Faithful Even in Death", translated by Wolfram Eberhard, is one illustration of this form of setting. ... Tradition will not allow Hsienpo and Ying tai to be together, but they find a way to over come tradition, even if it means death. ... Lawrence makes several references about the dark, dreary, sullenness of the atmosphere. ... The one character in this whole story not shadowed by darkness, is Dr. ... There are three references to death within this poem. ...

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Louise Mallard is the variance protagonist of "The Story of an Hour," who is faced with her husband Richard's death, in a time when women had to have a man in their lives in order to be respected and survive. ... Mallard first finds out of her husband's death. ... Mallard feeling as the most beautiful, victorious, magnificent woman that has ever lived, since her dark, devious ruler has fallen from his throne. ... Mallard and new life of jubilation with the cold chill of death. ...

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Louise Mallard is the variance protagonist of "The Story of an Hour," who is faced with her husband Richard's death, in a time when women had to have a man in their lives in order to be respected and survive. ... Mallard first finds out of her husband's death. ... Mallard feeling as the most beautiful, victorious, magnificent woman that has ever lived, since her dark, devious ruler has fallen from his throne. ... Mallard and new life of jubilation with the cold chill of death. ...

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Bombs are dark, dangerous and destructive; they are mainly known to cause pain and misery. ... They stay in the dark and don't want to look at the light and learn any more. The stars refer to height, intelligence and power and it shows that they don't aspire to anything higher or get promoted, they prefer to remain in the dark, knowing nothing. ... The words go "Slough" "now" "cow" but the last line is a very bold brutal such as the word "death". ...

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It was the fear that came on to them when they immediately realized ( looking at the falling, shaking and cracking walls) that it was an earthquake and that fear was the fear of death. ... Any girl trying to walk through a dark alley, any child trying to sleep in his dark room with the fear of monster from under the bed, any student who has a test the next day and any athlete going for a competition, all of them are the examples of fear experienced by people. ... We experienced the fear of death or physical pain because of the earthquake which was generally an information rejected by the brain...

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How does death affect the behavior of people? Although death affects everyone's behavior differently, knowledge of one's imminent death is a main force behind behavioral changes. ... They are in the Vietnam war and the horror of death is always hanging over their heads. ... In order to handle the war, the men had to ease the anxiety of death, they had to feature certain actions to do that. ... One of the soldiers, " Norman Bowler, otherwise, a very gentle person, carried a Thumb...The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch...It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifte...

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"Soldier's Home" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway where a young man called Krebs is displayed as the protagonist. He is shown to be struggling as he has just returned back from the First World War. While at the war Krebs was exposed to both death and destruction in some of the most grues...

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Throughout her life, Plath began to see the goal of life as death, and neglected any true concept of true love and friendships. Her groundbreaking poems served as a confessional which shocked and puzzled readers with their pessimism and obsession with death and destruction. However, in some of her works, what seems to be poetry filled with visions of death and sorrow, a glimmer of hope appears. ... Darkness and despair is portrayed here. ... Throughout her life Sylvia Lath always searched for something greater than god, love, and death. ...

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The reader is made aware of some kind of death from which the wife suffers. ... The death of a child is now apparent to the reader, which causes great emotion in both the speakers, and the reader. ... The wife is pushing the husband away, maybe blaming him for the child's death. ... The wife says, "From the time when one is sick to death, one is alone, and he dies more alone," (104-105). ... The fear of death and all that is a mystery about it has crippled the wife and the relationship with her husband. ...

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The control the colonel has over his girls all the way up until the moment before his death. ... The damage he has brought to them shines through before his death. ... He lay[s] there, purple, a dark, angry purple in the face, and never even look at them when they [ come] in. ... "The giggle mounted, mounted; she clenched her hands; she fought it down; she frowned fiercely at the dark and said 'Remember' terribly sternly" (464). ... The father has such a terrible and strong impact on them in every way that, even after his death, they could not believe that he was never coming bac...

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