The Darker Side of Beauty George Byron's poem titled, "She Walks in Beauty," is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. ... Immediately the poem brings together its two opposing forces that are at work, darkness and light. ... The joining together of the darkness and the light can be seen in her "aspect," or appearance, but also in her "eyes." In this case, the woman's eyes aren't used as a physical feature, but more as a window into her inner self, revealing what's in her heart. ... (Appendix I) The physical beauty, the speaker can conclude, re...

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The Tale Tell Heart, written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very dark, but magnificent piece of writing. ... The old man was very scared, and his heart was racing. The narrator could hear the heart beat of the old man. ... It is very dark, and has very good imagery, and description. ... I think that the heart beat at the end is actually the narrators guilt. ...

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We are examining the dark sides of th moon when our own darksides is what is in need of examination. ... Otherwise technology's innovations, he feared, would reach further into darkness. Still today, even after landing on the moon and new sorts of studies of space done, there is curiosity and anticipation to know the beyond, the darkness. ... Until we begin to grasp the true mind, the inner heart, of man and pull ourselves away from darkness, our strides in technology will be in darkness. ...

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Light liberates darkness the same as freedom liberates slaves. Darkness is the absence of light just as slavery is merely the absence of freedom. ... Faith may guide many a man and his heart, but freedom guides the soul. ... This provincial nature that the world commercializes I once held, but it has been freed by the disuniting of my flesh and its influence upon my mind, soul, and heart. ... Without it I become dark and meek as I look to the cold earth for heavenly answers. ...

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Does a thunder and lightning storm make your heart beat fast? ... Have you ever wondered why being scared causes your heart to beat faster and breaths to become quicker? ... It was starting to get darker earlier and a little bit colder outside. ... My heart began to beat faster and within seconds it was pounding. ... I have been afraid of being alone in a large dark house ever since. ...

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The dark solemn colors on the front also help to create the look of a distressed dark outer shell. My piece uses contrast by contrasting the white heart that is stitched through the center of the pillow and be white against the black back. ... Once your eye is drawn towards the center, if you look closely, you will see the white stitched heart which represents your soul and how hard it is to see through all of the other things. ...

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I haven't dreamt for a while. My sleep these days is so deep and sound that even fire alarms in the middle of the night couldn't awake. As I drew my breath, and let it out with a long exhale, it resembles snoring although I hate to admit so. Even if once in a while a dream may creep in, I would forg...

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The lights continuously flickered on and off, as though it wasn't already dark enough. ... Left almost breathless, my heart crumbled when I felt cold metal and pure latex gloves penetrate my skin. ... My heart started racing and I began to feel moisture sit in my palms. ... Scott's Sunkist skin and luscious dark brown hair made me want to get to know him, and once we finally spoke, I fell in love with him. ...

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It was the beating of the old man's heart. ... I thought the heart must burst. ... The young man has truly gone to the dark side of the moon if he believes the heart lives on. ... -it is the beating of his hideous heart"" (pg 39). ... It would still be mysterious as to why the heart did this. ...

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While Simon attempts to be the pure, Christ-like figure of the group, he tragically fails due to the darkness that exists within mankind. ... His good deeds show how different he is from the others through his nature of civility and how kind hearted he is by not turning into a primitive savage. Simon is the first one to realize the truth about the beast and how it is a concept of darkness that comes from within the boys, rather than a physical creature. ... Simon points out the possibility of the boys being the beast, meaning that the beast is the darkness that is inside each and every huma...

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She is very unrealistic, because nowadays for her it is full of darkness. ... Because she was so unrealistic, both her daughter and son took a turn of their own in life, leaving her deceived and broken-hearted. ...

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When Latimer has the premonition of his brother's death he still cannot escape the dark feelings of his own soul, he laments: "In after-days I thought with bitter regret that if I had foreseen something more or something different-if instead of that hideous vision which poisoned the passion it could not destroy" (Eliot 21). ... Latimer than discovers that his thoughts are no different or less dark than the others that he felt contempt for. ... He knows this for sure when he remarks that "the dark veil had completely fallen," between these two women. ... Human nature is at...

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During the play, he suffers because of his dark secrets and battles his conscience even after his specific desire is reached or accomplished. ... Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heart-oppressed brain? ... All events in this play, take place at night, in a dark environment, or during a storm. This symbolizes the darkness, evil, and confusion that are lurking inside Macbeth's mind. ... As the poison in his mind grows, Macbeth begins to make unbalanced decisions, lose all passion for his wife, and fall deeper into darkness. ...

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Imagine your heart racing like a prize winning stallion at the Kentucky Derby. ... Quietly moving down the hallway, a dark sinister atmosphere consumed my highly welcomed sunrays and chilled my sweat filled shirt. ... It was at that moment I felt as if the dark, gloomy cloud that had been stalking me simply vanished into thin air. ...

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"Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness will tell us truths. ... Thus, filling his heart with hate, and the distortion of reality. "False faces must hide what false hearts doth know."...

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The implication is that Captain Delano is a trusting good-hearted fellow who believes in his own ability to judge those around him. ... "Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise determine." ... Fortunately, in "Benito Cereno" Melville brought light on the dark subject of slavery....

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Lady Macbeth is now afraid of the dark because all the crimes that were committed were done in the dark. Her fear of darkness shows the audience that she regrets what she has done and that she knows what she did was wrong. ... He first reveals his thoughts when he says, "If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs / Against the use of nature?" ...

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Granny is symbolized as that light that is surrounded by the darkness. ... The darkness represents death and the sadness of being left at the altar, both of which just consume and swallow the light (Granny) up. ... As the lampshade is being pulled over her life (the light) and the darkness of death swallows it whole, the only thing she wants is that God be with her. ... As Granny Weatherall "stretches within herself with a deep breath and blew out the light- (1300), she dies with an unforgiving heart for the jiltings that consumed her mind in life and death, including the greatest of them all,...

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The Raven This is my favorite piece of work done by Poe. It's a great poem. The raven is a dark gloomy poem about how he misses his love Lenore. This poem is about Lenore, who is his wife, who died of a hopeless illness. This poem is built around the word nevermore. I think the meaning behi...

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Lord of the Flies The main conflict in Lord of the Flies is one that each of us feel everyday. The conflict between being moral, being peaceful and living by the rules, or gain supremacy over a group by acting brutal. Most people in today's world possess good instincts due to laws, rules and r...

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When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. ... The bazaar is dark and empty; it thrives on the Meyer 3 same profit motive as the market place: "Two men were counting money on a salver" (Joyce 479). ...

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My heart was pounding with excitement the entire time I was traveling through this beautiful region that time seemed to have forgotten. ... A limb breaks nearby, and my heart begins to race. ... While I wait, listening, my eyes trying to focus in the deep abyss of darkness, I hear nothing, see nothing. ...

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My mind raced through confusion and darkness not seeing any light in existence. ... The mind is where the world is transformed into a land of darkness and shadow, a place where dreams die and nightmares come alive. ... The last thing I remember is my heart rate increasing as I fell unconscious. ...

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Just like the forest, the subconscious mind is dark, secretive, and extremely private. ... Although the minister owns a way of swaying an audience and has the sweet, deep voice to steal a woman's heart, the readers are tuned into the conscious of Dimmesdale and the truth is revealed. ... I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! ...

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In Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," the author takes us inside the mind of a madman who reveals the dark side of human nature, and how death is twisted into a demented form of compassion. ... "Murmuring how she loved me-she/ Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,/ To set its struggling passion free/ From pride, and vainer ties dissever,/ And give herself to me forever" (21-25). ... This is best explained in the key passage: "Happy and proud; at last I knew/ Porphyria worshipped me; surprise/ Made my heart swell, and still it grew/ While I debated ...

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