Compare And Contrast Untitled And Acquainted With The Night

Frost’s monotonous stanzas, as seen when he begins half of his lines with “I have” followed by a verb, produce an inherent feeling of boring routine. Whereas Dickinson’s poem stimulates hope, Frost’s poem causes all hope to cease by painting images of “the furthest city light” and “the saddest city lane.” His character’s progression through the night is that of regularity. Frost re-enforces this monotonous routine with a methodical rhyme scheme—aba bcb dcd dad aa—ending with the words, “I have been one acquainted with the night” signifying defeat. This submission leads to envelopment by darkness which shows that instead of adapting to make the darkness hopeful, surrendering causes the darkness to

Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost both write about darkness, structuring their poems in an uncertain and cynical tone stringing along the reader by using consistent rhyming and vague details. The authors also use extended metaphors and fearful imagery to implement the ominous feel that comes with darkness. Although both poems use different devices to achieve their purpose, the message is almost parallel. In Emily Dickinson's “419” she grabs your attention by using the pronoun “we”, in doing this she relates to the reader and makes the poem more personable.

He talks about how he has gone towards and away from the place and maybe even passing it. He also talks about seeing someone and already knowing not to acknowledge the person so that he doesn’t end up needing to explain himself. The speaker has even seen the saddest part of the city. All and all the significance of the title is to show that the speaker really is “Acquainted with the night” and throughout the poem he really does show it explaining how he has seen everything and has been everywhere in the city during the night even going passed

The speaker has chosen to walk out in the rain quite

Loren Eiseley explores the theme of the journey of dark descent in collection of essays called The Night Country, particularly in his essay titled “The Places Below.” Along with this comes the imagery of darkness, of “the night country,” which gives the volume its title and unifying theme. The “night country” into which people descend is described as a series of dark caves, tunnels, labyrinths, tombs, basements, and hidden passages by Eiseley. Per Eiseley, we will be drawn to the darkness because: You will be drawn to it by cords of fear and of longing.

The speaker’s relationship with his “lost Lenore,” seems to be an unexpected one. Lenore is referred to as an angel, while the narrator is surrounded by ghosts and evil feelings. The feeling of terror which was felt when the narrator opened the door to find “darkness there and nothing more,” could have been reduced had a light been nearby to illuminate the hallway, but the importance of the darkness shows the audience that the lack of religion and prayers of the narrator are taking a toll on him, as the seemingly lack of religious beliefs Poe had also affected his life. Not only did Poe allude to the evil aspects of religions in this poem, but he also threw in a few allusions that make the audience question what Poe’s beliefs truly were. Poe alludes to the Hellenistic story of Pallas Athena in line 41, the narrator points out that this Raven is “perched upon a bust of Pallas,” Poe specifically chose Pallas because she and Lenore relate to each other in the ways that the two of them will only live on in their names.

Inherently, in ‘The Signalman’ Dickens uses an unfamiliar setting to build suspense by using gloomy words to make a tunnel horrendous, deadly and isolated. Which can be seen in “his post was in a solitary and dismal a place”. The using of the words such as ‘solitary’ and ‘dismal’ construct the imagery of being abandoned and a lonesome place. Suspense is being built during the readers read through these words thinking of a ghastly place and something dreadful could happen here.

Have you ever wondered what goes on at night? Many people believe that night is simply the period of darkness in each twenty-four hour period. However, reading William Shakespeare's Macbeth may change someone’s mind. Reading about this tragedy may show that the word “night,” as it’s used in Macbeth evokes discomfort in the reader, including feelings of fear, chaos, and darkness. The evolution of the word 'night' illustrates a major theme in Macbeth by displaying the evil that occurs at night and presenting that what’s done in the dark, will eventually be revealed in the light.

Foreshadowing is revealed here by Uchida because the night is very dark with no moon. The quiet night with no moon foreshadows something unpleasant will happen. The moon cannot provide light which is a symbol of safety. Therefore, it brings out darkness which represents death. The darkness creates a sense of foreboding for Henry Toda as he steps out his door.

“Now you hear what the house has to say…” This is the first line of the poem, Insomnia by Dana Gioia. This poem is about what happens at night when there is no one around and you are only left to your thoughts and the noises around you. This poem is a great representation of what it feels like to wake up with insomnia and be alone with only the darkness to keep you company. The language Gioia decides to use, fits very well in the poem. He uses descriptive phases like pipes clanking and water running in the dark to describe the way it feels at night.

He would have stinging feet from running too much, his body would ache all the time. He wouldn’t connect with god

The poem, “Spirits of the Dead” by: Edgar Allan Poe (poetryfoundation.org), is written in third person. The poem’s narrator has a depressed tone. This poem takes place in an old, scary graveyard. There is a lot of symbolism in the poem that builds up the theme “Secrets can’t be forgotten” My first example of symbolism is, “Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone-”.

The Enlightenment and Romanticism periods are two genres that consists of some of the world’s greatest work. The Romanticism era evolves around the time of the mid 1600’s, to the late 1700’s. It accentuates highly on emotions, and feelings of what ‘ought to be. The literary work that I have chosen in the Romanticism period is from the author Emily Dickenson and the work is titled “After great pain, a formal feeling comes—“. This particular poem appeals to deep emotion towards an internal pain.

Comparing the Works of T.S. Eliot and Theodore Roethke When reading the two poems, one can definitely catch the similarities of both poems, yet how they vary differently. One poem talks about how the winter evening makes the day feel and the other talks about how dark it is in the cellar and the how life is down there. They both seem to have been written by someone going through depression or a difficult situation in life. Many poems can be written to sound similar to another piece of work, yet have different meaning and ideas.

As Sukarno once said, “The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.” In Night by Elie Wiesel, Anna Karenina, and The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, the protagonists all struggle with isolation. Elie, Anna, and the old man are isolated from society because they are different than everybody else and unworthy of being included, which results in depression, death, and misery. Elie Wiesel, a Jew removed from his home and relocated to Auschwitz, is an outcast and is isolated from the rest of society because he is considered different. When Elie first arrives to the death camp, he describes his surroundings as “empty and dead” (Wiesel 47).