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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Throughout his developing years, Poe suffered the deaths of more of those whom he cared for. ... However, the echoing darkness of those dreams must find specificity in the dark heart of the reader, and the poet will not fulfill that unholy task. ... After his wife's death, Poe gave himself up to drinking, which compounded his latent illness. ... Poe ended up drinking himself to death in Baltimore at age forty. ... This dark premonition does only increases the appeal of the mystery that is The Raven. ...

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In "Because I could not Stopped for Death", Dickinson provides detailed information and description of feelings when she expresses her vision of her own death. ... For instance, "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" The words "dark" and "deep" imply the idea of peaceful sleep which is related to death. ... "He kindly stopped for me-" The word "He" refers to Death. ... "But I have promises to keep," If it was not for the "promises", the speaker might have entered the woods, for their darkness and depth which is "lovely", that suggests the peacefulness of death. ... The images of the warm...

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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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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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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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The misery and sorrow that he feels is emphasized further by the theme of darkness, night, and shadows that is carried throughout the poem. ... However, the speaker ultimately realizes that there is, in fact, tremendous beauty within the world, as well as darkness. ... So therefore the urn represents the permanent connection between life and death. ... However, he does acknowledge that suffering and misery is a part of human existence, just as death is in "Ode on a Grecian Urn". ... He says to it, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!" ...

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He quickly introduces the theme of death and compares the dead leaves to "ghosts" (3). ... The important word is "seeds" for it shows that even in death, new life will grow out of the "grave." ... Stanza four deals with two ideas, one being that death would have no hold over us if humanity were to worship the power, and the other with celebrating the intellectual power (Brewer 989). ... Thus, implying that the power has to stay within people in order for death to become a "dying flame-. He concludes the stanza with "Depart not as thy shadow came, Depart not "lest the grave should be, Li...

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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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The use of seasonal-change in most works of literature is generally used as a metaphor to represent life and death; winter brings death and destruction and spring bequeaths restoration and new life. In line 4, the poet paints quite an ominous scene of the withering leaves of autumn, whirling wistfully to their inevitable deaths. ... In lines 3-4, the speaker describes the night as "empathy", and Duffy personifies the stars as tears in the eyes of the dark evening sky. ... In his painting, powerful sentiments of hope are conveyed through the incandescent lights of the stars, generousl...

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In Unending Love the imagery lies in "necklace of songs", "pole-star", "darkness of time", and "tears of farewell". ... In On My First Son, the speaker is obviously a father grieving over his son's death. ... The controlling image in On My First Son is death and grief. Death rings out through the entire poem. ... The dramatic situation used in this poem is the death of a son. ...

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Certain poems in Songs of Innocence contain a darker tone that foreshadows, or predicts, the arrival of a more experienced perspective. ... Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... The sweep's clothes are 'clothes of death' not just because the soot has turned them black, the colour of mourning, but also because the soot will soon kill the child. ... I believe that Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience do need to be read together in order to fully appreciate the cont...

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The ambiguity of whether he is pining for his freedom or mourning his past immediately makes it clear that we are observing the prisoner, though we are left in the dark about his true thoughts; giving them greater mystery. ... Brontë specifically mentions freedom and the light of day in contrast to the dark, understated atmosphere of the dungeon. ... By mentioning his eye, she pulls the reader out of the dark atmosphere and almost implies that a man still lives in that shell of a prisoner. ... The reader's empathy with the conflict lures them in, while the prisoner's loss of ...

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There are also very few technical features in the poem, the only special addition, (other than the alliteration "dark and deep") like with most of his other poems is the heavy use of symbolism. ... The topic of death in many of Frost's poems is fast becoming a major literary topic found in many books, as well as something we hear oh too much about throught the news and media. In this poem however, it could be considered that the narrator is wishing for his own death. ... The woods are now a symbol of life, a change from the previous example, and the frozen lake, devoid of life, is a sym...

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Larkin also writes that the buyers realise the illusions of advertising too late, smiling, and recognising and going dark. This gives the image of death. They know that they too have been taken in by the illusion of advertising and they realise it is too late before moving on to death. ...

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The drunken father's breath, "Could make a small boy dizzy", yet the boy hangs "on like death" (My Papa's lines 2-3). ... There are many words like "Death", "Battered", "Scraped", and "Beat". ... Even with the possible darker meaning of the "waltz" the poem still shows how the child still loves the father. ...

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Autumn is frequently described as dark, callous and often conveying death; here, the writer praises autumn, showing its splendour and elegance to all. ... Various references are made to death (a fourth theme). ...

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In short, they lived their lives in complete darkness, with no joyful moments of childhood other than the joy created by their young, innocent minds. ... The colour black is associated with unhappiness, death, captivity, burdens and destructiveness in general. ... In this line, clothes of death are of course the black clothes that the chimney sweepers wore. There seems little doubt that the term black and death is a negative description of their lives. ... They also symbolize death; this profession was a sure death for them because of the hazardous conditions of both the work in general and th...

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In his final essay written one year before his death in 1891, he sums up his struggles of thirty years to write Leaves of Grass. ... I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING (1867) I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder"d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not, And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves ...

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The martyrs only become symbolic by dying and their deaths generate, with thegrowing barley?... Through his poem Digging, Heaney talks about the harvesting of potatoes, with reference to the dark famine stage during Irish history, again reflecting on his country and origins, helping form the person that he is. ... To Heaney, being a human is the loss of innocence, the loss of innocence when the boy in Death of a Naturalist grew into his adolescence and wasavenged? ... The more intimate and personal feelings of the author are put into the series of poems including Blackberry Picking, Death o...

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Once this is discovered, it can automatically be assumed that this poem is dealing with death and will probably not contain much happiness. ... Although the stench is a very unpleasant odor and invokes a negative response to the sense of smell, the odor is also a sad reminder that the animal is now deceased and that death brings about a sad and depressed feeling. ... The flies have swarmed the dead beast and make it appear as a dark black cloud has descended upon the carcass. ... Death is a sad thing and the reader is reminded that one day they will be just like the dead animal. ...

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In line 15, the specific reference to the literary character Venus, Auden thus mixes beauty and love with death and the dark side of life. ... By using this imagery the poet not only forms an imaginary picture of death and time, but the abstract speech also helps makes the poem more realistic. ... These lines imply that one must obey to what the tarot cards foretells; they predict death and there is nothing to be done that can change that. ...

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The speaker envisions his neighbor as a leftover from a justifiably old-fashioned era, a living example of a dark-age mentality. ... This is similar to another age-old question: whether it would be preferable to freeze to death or burn to death. ...

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The words he used, also gives the reader the impression of a fantasy place, where everywhere was joy and laughter, with no sadness or darkness to be seen. ... In the second stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses phrases such as "ecstasy of fumbling", "thick green light", "under a green sea", "saw him drowning", "in all my dreams" and "plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning", giving the reader the image of a group of soldiers rushing to put on gas masks, with the glass or plastic of the mask, causing one to see everything in green, and that the one soldier's death, rese...

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The final stanza symbolizes death and marriage both through television "to be ever faithful to each other", "till next they meet at world at war". ... Dawes does this through imagery "the nursery is in darkness" the mother is now referred to as a monster "her large hands hold him fast" the line "she loves him and the frightening fact sinks in" expresses to the audience that there is no escaping consumerism or those who bestow it upon the public. ...

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