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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In Frankenstein, the multitude of dark setting arouses continual atmosphere of mystery and suspense throughout the novel, as well as serving as a metonymy of gloom and horror. ... Nature and weather plays an important role in foreshadowing dark evil acts, events and confrontation to come in the novel. ... The icy climate tested both Victor's mental and physical toughness and it ultimately became the main factor contributing to his death. ... He worked with objects that is viewed as revolting and spent days and nights in churchyards, charnel houses and vaults, collecting remains of dead ...

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The human soul was part of the oversoul, essentially the spirit of the cosmos, and upon death, would return to the oversoul. ... Unlike most other religions, this philosophy placed particular emphasis on the here and now, rather than what should happen after death. ... Another important aspect of this movement was the relationship between good and evil, between light and dark. Transcendentalists believed that evil and darkness were merely the absence of good and light. Light was seen as more powerful than the dark due to its illuminating qualities. ...

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Poe does not stray from his opening structure of a gloomy description of the "dank tarn" and "dark rooms" of the house to the gloomy ending marked by dark and horrific events (2,3). ... ", as the two are reunited in death, the mind can not live or die without its physical component, the senses (10). ...

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His preoccupation with death characterizes romanticism, in that he focuses on death and freedom from oppression. His continual wish of death reveals his recurring outlook on life, as he seems to be unsatisfied with his life. ... He uses his imagination to join the nightingale in the darkness of the forest where the moonlight can hardly reach. ... His hardships are evident in his almost hopeful longing for a peaceful death. ... Romantic literature is often characterized by death and the feelings and emotions that the writer is dealing with. ...

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Bierce writes "His features were good – a straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar of his well fitting frock coat. [1]" Bierce would trick his readers into believing Farquhar's imagination was an element of his story by using various narrative strategies. ... In comparison to "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, Poe uses unrealistic description of setting to emphasize his point "With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,...

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Romantic artist identified themselves with tormented heroes, worrying over death and lost love, while believing in the admiration of beauty. ... The main characteristics of Baroque art are strong perspective effects, dramatic color, dramatic light and dark, movement of figures, broken and agitated draperies, loose brushstrokes, and dense and detailed compositions for emotional impact on the viewer. ... Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818, oil on canvas, 37.3 Ã- 29.4 in Caspar David Friedrich Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Baroque subject matter ranged from miracles and visions, religi...

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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should break through, and pour light into our dark world. ... It is as if the creature is Adam as his first creation, and also by creating this new species Frankenstein is replacing women - and this can be related to the death of Justine, the female creature, and Elizabeth. ... The character of Frankenstein seems always be searching to become a God-like figure, although there are strong references in the book when there seems to be the darker side to Frankenstein - which can be linked to the creature. ... Frankenstein claims this after the de...

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John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hangs down and shudders over the icy cleft that it has cloven, as if partly wondering at its own recent grave, and partly dying of very fatigue aft...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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