Once outside the camp, “it seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side” (84). The motif of night can be identified effortlessly because of the key words and attention grabbing context of the literary
She portrays her love life to the audience by using sad and melancholy diction. She was married and divorced twice, when both times thinking the man she was with at the time, was her one true love. Sadly, she discovered her marriages were not meant to be and was disappointed in the reality of what she thought was love. Liliana Cruz has a similar view to the topic in saying, “… Alvarez’s point was that love does not end up being all it is cut out to be,” (Cruz). Alvarez clearly wrote this poem when she was in a state of brokenness on the inside from being hurt too many times.
“Night” is a poem by Hilda Doolittle better known as H.D. Born in Pennsylvania on September 10, 1998. The work of H.D was “characterized by the intense strength of her image economy of language and use of classical mythology”. Mythology is the myths of a group of people depending on each culture. While classical is a long established event or idea or also traditional, HD used traditional myths to create each poem. She was also the leader of the imagist movement which was very important at that time.
Due to this she became hopeless, which is reflected in the line “stars at night turned deep to dust”. The second verse of the song touches
This assonance begins the poem by setting the scene. We are able to interpret that the unnamed narrator is in a terrible mood, is fearful, and his anxiety is skyrocketing. This is set at midnight, which gives a feeling of uneasiness. These dark terms are emphasized by the assonance to give the
Like any other nights, the moon rested in the middle of the sky and there wasn’t any sound out here. I closed the door of the laundry slowly and put on my thick coat immediately. “Good night. See, the shadows are like soldiers. ”I whispered.
The poem ends “Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night.” I imagine laying out beneath the stars falling asleep. The poem is so sweet and
The poem literally and symbolically is about the journey of a “gallant knight” and his search to quest to find Eldorado. But he literally is growing old through his journey and losing his strength to find Eldorado. Also, the poem symbolically about how the shadow fell over his heart as he was aging, and how he was depressed about on finding Eldorado. Eventually, he met a “pilgrim shadow” (spirit) and guide him to the “Valley of the Shadow”. “This knight so hold-And o’er his heart a shadow Fell as he found.”
“Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” is a poem written by Dylan Thomas at the time when his father was at the brink of death. The piece is actually a villanelle where it consist of six stanzas, each with three lines except for the sixth stanza which has four lines. The rhymes on the first until fifth stanzas are aba, aba, aba, aba, aba. While, abaa is the rhyme for the last quatrain stanza. Thomas died a few months after his father, it is believed that this poem was written by him especially for his father.
The representation of stars could be presented in the poem to mention her lack of interest, lack of knowledge, and mainly the lack of proficient skills in science. In addition, Plath feels she is a disappointing creation to culture and systems that values the scientific ability of its native people; this can be linked back to when she criticized the American Education system. This would come forth because of not living to the ideal stereotypical ideal woman of the 1950’s, because of Plath’s differences, she sees herself a disappointment towards her family and friends. Though it’s questionable whether Plath intended to subject herself to the envisioned or real pressures, which women of today could easily relate to, the pressure of societal expectations, presentation pressure, practically everyday pressure of being an ‘ideal woman’.
Noticeably, most of the poem has been set against the setting of night-time (lines 7 and 9) thus the night becomes symbolic of the time of oppression. Consequently, when in the last stanza the declaration ‘The dawn is here, my brother! Dawn! Look in our faces//A new morning breaks in our old Africa’ the dawn is the made the setting of liberation as the poem has transitioned out of night and exclamation marks in the last stanza reveal an optimism that was not present before. The symbolism of morning also carries sentiment of new beginnings, which the poem elaborates will be the ownership of the ‘land, the water and the mighty rivers’.
It is common for a person to admire the stars in the sky. Their brightness and arrangement is a fascinating sight, of course. On the other hand, people tend to forget or plainly ignore what is right under their feet. In “Song of Myself,” Walt Whitman focused on what he thought was truly important, details of the green grass. Whitman wrote, “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars” (663).
Towards the end of the first stanza we start to see the repetition of the moon and moonlight. Initially it creates just a setting that informs us of the time of day, but as it is mentioned more and more we come to realise that it actually is setting the atmosphere. Through the use of nature, Noyes has been able to create a very eerie feel throughout the poem, even when The Highwayman is killed, the moonlight is still written about whilst his ghost wonders, looking for Bess, perhaps even, the early on mention of the moon is a foretelling of the death of The
In “Acquainted with the Night”, it embodies the abyss of despair that the narrator finds themselves in. The poem centers on the qualities of the night, and the night’s defining characteristic is its never-ending darkness. The poem’s very title shows how deeply bogged down in darkness the narrator is; the speaker has, ironically, become friends with it. The motif of darkness manifests itself in other examples as well. The speaker writes, “I have outwalked the furthest city light,” showing that he or she has transcended the limits of a normal person’s misfortune and instead exposed himself to complete and utter desperation (3).
We all go to a narrow road, bumpy paths, and surfs on heavy waves that life might give us. Those are some after dark moments that we got to go through. The sun has set and the night has begun. In the after dark, there are things that will be so hard to take a glimpse because of course, it's dark.
