Spellbound by Emily Bronte The overall theme of this poem is bound because the author uses diction, theme, and symbolism to describe how Emily Bronte “cannot go”. She says and gives off a feeling of being bound with depressing type of diction. The poem gives a depressed vibe when said the words, “I cannot go” and “night is darkening around me”. Use of words like this explain how the author tries to interprets her emotion while she writes the poem.
The attitude and shift reflect the same topic of being bound. The shift shows a new environment when “spell has bound me”. Words like this give the poem’s vibe that of anxiety and depression. In every stanza the environment changes from “the night”, “to the giant trees”, to finally “the clouds above”. All these environments connect to the
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The theme is portrayed as being bound because the author constantly says, “I cannot go”. The author’s diction is an important term being used because it describes how the author interprets being bound. This again refers to when Emily Bronte says “I cannot go”, connecting the theme and diction together. Death in this poem can be symbolic, when Emily Bronte explains how “spell has bound me” and this death causes one to be bound therefore meaning she, “cannot go” because of death. The overall theme of the poem “Spellbound” is bound because the author’s diction and symbolism all connect with being bound. These all connect through the theme itself in close and similar ways. The literary terms, diction, symbolism, and theme are significant because they identify a similar quality that connects. The connections are important because they show why bound is the theme of “Spellbound”. The overall theme of spellbound is portrayed as being bound because very often the author, Emily Bronte, “cannot go” due to being