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 ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Phrases such as "direct and terrible," "delicious death," "her red umbrella, filtering the light, rouges her face with a bloody glow," and "in harmony, she moves along, glad to be alive, smiling an empty smile," all serve to support the meaning and mood of this poem as slightly sour, positioning "Beautiful Dorothea" in a dream where these words would make sense and come together. The poet sets the scene by invoking the sense that everyone but the speaker, the reader, and Dorothea are awake to witness the action: "the stupefied world collapses into a siesta, a sort of delicious death where the...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1786
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1748
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

First the source of this strange desire came because of the death of his mother from which he never seemed to recover. ... He goes on to say, "This is because of the simple fact that the novel reconstitutes in the reader the dark and potent portion of human nature that Foust describes as part Ape and part Angel or Monster vs. ...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After his mother's death in 1778 he was sent to Grammar school near Windermere, in 1778 he was able to work himself up to St. ... William Wordsworth wife, Mary, published his autobiographical 'poem to Coleridge" as the Prelude several months after his death. ... When Wordsworth first lays eyes on this beautiful woman he describes her eyes being as beautiful as the stars in the evening and her hair as dark as the night. ... Some examples of metaphors in this poem are "a lovely apparition ", "the machine" and "a traveler between life and death. ...

• Word Count: 2404
• Approx Pages: 10

In 1824 Goya left Spain for France on voluntary exile and settled for the remainder of his life in Bordeaux until his death on April 16, 1828. ... His Romantic Style.Gericault is truly the leader of the French romantics because in his often dark and gloomy paintings he expressed his personal emotions and attraction to the morbid. ...

• Word Count: 1704
• Approx Pages: 7

Whenever two novels were written in different time periods, many differences can be found between these novels. They may have been written in different styles for different classes of readers. Viewpoints and beliefs change with time, and the writing styles in these novels reflect this evolution. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School