His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. ... Then I opened the door wide, and there was only darkness and nothing else (23-24). ... The silence remained unremitting and the darkness gave no sign (27). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...
It insinuates that although the town is vast and dark like a shadow, it is not real. ... Larkin uses irony in the phrase 'screen groves with custard' to represent how the adverts temporarily allow people to forget the reality of their own lives. ... There is a contrast between the concept of the 'well balanced families' and the 'boy puking his heart out'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ... However, it isn't until their live...
Something disturbing is felt in the imagery of darkness created metaphorically by comparing memory to a darkened theater coupled with the masturbatory stroking by the man. ... The irony here is in the royalty metaphor as her father had no castle or kingdom but was a simple working class man. ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
Juno's messenger goes to the dark valley where the gods Morpheus and Eclympasteyr sleep. ... When Morpheus is described in his dark cave, he has "good leyser for to route" (line 172; "plenty of time to snore"), so he sleeps all day and does no other work. ... When the knight has finished his song, he suffers a kind of emotional heart attack and becomes deathly pale. ...
