Looking In At Night Analysis

Death is the unavoidable part of our daily lives. In the poems, “Shrike Tree” by Lucia Perillo and “Plums Falling Well” by Linda Gregg, the poets discussed the plot with an accepting attitude towards death because it is part of the natural life cycle.

In Plato’s The Apology, he arises a standpoint about death. He thinks that death is not what people usually think as a horrible, unacceptable thing. Instead, death can be a blessing. In order to support his viewpoint, he also has two concrete reasons that explain the advantages of death explicitly. The first one states that death is like a dreamless sleep for it is complete lack of perception, and then death would be a great advantage. People are able to recall and cherish those days and rights that were better and more comfortable than this night, which is dreamless and endless. Another reason he points out is that death would make it possible for him to meet many famous people who are died earlier, for example Minos, Radamanthus, Aeacus,

Terence Davies film, “The Long Day Closes” portrays the life of a young homosexual boy living in a postwar society. The main protagonist Bud, represents Davies experience of the good and troubled times that childhood and his sexuality brought him. The Tammy’s in Love scene flawlessly applies mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound to depict the underlying message of finding yourself, a theme that is emphasized throughout the film.

Sleep is a peaceful comfort. It is a way for a person to escape the reality of life for a moment. Death however is not a comfort or an escape from reality. Death is the end. Most people see sleep and death as to similar entities. However, sleep and death could not be further apart. Sleep is an escapism from life to seek comfort in your dreams. While death is quite the opposite. There is no comfort in death, no dreams to dream about. Death is the end. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare Sleep and death are constantly being juxtaposed. Death and sleep are two different ideas however when one is dead they can often be mistaken as sleeping. "Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, / And look on death itself!" (Shakespeare 2.3.76-77). Macduff explains that although sleep and death may look similar, real sleep is relaxing, while real death is a horror that cannot be thought about. The idea behind closing one’s eyes can be considered death or sleep, as one is lived in and the other is not living.

Eyes are usually happy or bright, lighting up, but they can also be a glimpse into utter darkness. Through the memoir, Night, we are shown images countless times of eyes. In the concentration camps we see instances of eyes portraying the darkness of the Holocaust. Throughout Elie’s time in the concentration camp, he and his father struggled against the darkness threatening to engulf them. This can represent both the darkness within us, and surrounding us. By ruthlessly killing, starving, and depriving them of the necessities to live, we see how truly awful the Nazis were. Used to show the brutal mistreatment of Jews, eyes symbolize the inhumane treatment, the ruthless killing, and the complete loss of hope brought on the the Nazis during the

How distinctive voices are used to draw the responder into the experiences of others and allow different perspectives to be explored in a single text.

A seemingly normal event acquires deeper significance by the end of the poem. The event taking place in the poem is a visit to a hospital, and through the writer’s use of literary techniques the reader is made to understand how he is feeling and appreciate the themes of the poem. The poem begins with the writer making his way to the ward in which the dying woman, presumably his wife, lies “in a white cave of forgetfulness”. As well as being taken on the literal journey with the writer, we are made to feel how he is feeling as he reaches an understanding of death’s inevitability, and leaves the ward knowing he is helpless to do anything to prevent this woman from dying. The main themes of the

Over the course of the novel, Faulkner explores existential behaviors and questions about the meaning of life and death, as well as trying to understand the purpose an individual has in an irrational world. Characters such as Darl, Addie, and Vardaman all convey existentialistic behavior leaving them to view the world from a different perspective than other characters such as Jewel. Throughout the novel, Addie, Darl, and Vardaman all act differently than Jewel due to their existentialist ideas. Although it is important to understand the world around us, if we become submerged into our own thoughts and try to understand the complex world around us, we might lose ourselves in the process.

First and foremost, I’d like to exacerbate the thesis of the author. Klinkenborg argument is that we use too much light and it is dramatically affecting the sky above us by being less extravagant with its consolations, and various anomalies throughout the universe, and to solve this issue we must eliminate all unwanted light; including features such as, too much glare, or city lights becoming more spread out throughout the area. Furthermore, his full thesis statement is, “This kind of engineering is no different than damming a river. Its benefits come with consequences-called light pollution-whose effects scientist are now beginning to study”( 109 “Models for writers” paragraph 2) It is elaborated further,

When reading The Making of a Poem one thing that really intrigued me was the beginning. Right away we get to see how Eavan Boland fell in love with poetry and it's very significant to put it there at the start before getting to know anything else about her. As readers, we never really get to hear how a writer picks up their talent but rather little snippets of their life if you will, it's about more of where they come from and their life experiences, then the craft itself. We don't see what really moves them to write and where their reasoning comes from so I think it is very clever to open the book with that and allows us to get to know where the writer's passion lies. It comes as no surprise to me that she grew a love for poetry from her father,

William Blake’s poems tend to explore romanticism, which is the exploration of feelings and strong emotions. A Poison Tree explores the emotion of anger and the power to forgive. Robert Frost’s poem Acquainted with the Night explores the emotions of sadness and loneliness. While A Poison Tree aims to communicate

The sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Christina Rossetti’s work was influenced by the doctrines of this artistic movement. Her poetry is simple in rhyme scheme and choice of words, conveying the meaning of her poems to the reader with much clarity. The aforementioned characteristics of her poem do not take away from the vibrancy of her descriptions, as she used symbolism to help her paint vivid images in the minds of her audience. Adding to that, she was a devout Christian, and so her poems take on a highly religious, spiritual, and emotional theme, removed from material wealth and earthly possessions.

“The Courage My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay was a very touching poem for me to read. Edna was a poet during the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. The poem was about a girl’s mother who passed away and the writer explains what courage her mother had which then was passed on to her daughter. This poem had left an impact on me when I had finished reading it because of such loss. Though I cannot say I had lost my mother but I did lose my sister a few years ago. So therefore reading this poem about losing someone very important in your life is something I can relate to very well. Death is very terrible but it helps you build the courage for a stronger life. This poem reveals a contrast between material possessions and human values through

Death is a topic that is celebrated in some cultures, but feared and avoided in others. This contrast in opinion occurs in the passages, “I am Vertical,” written by Sylvia Plath, and an excerpt from the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Within Twain’s novel is a story about the dangerous, yet exciting, journey of the main character, Huckleberry Finn, as he travels along the Mississippi River. He faces many challenges along the way, and encounters death, as well as fear and adventure. On the other hand, Plath’s poem romanticizes death, while discussing the phenomenal feeling of sleeping or lying down. Therefore, both passages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain and, “I am Vertical,” by Sylvia Plath, demonstrate the subject of death and its significance to the main characters through the use of first-person perspective, descriptive imagery, and emotional diction.

'Quitting the Bars ' takes on the particularly difficult form of the villanelle. This consists of nineteen lines, composed of five tercets and ending with a quatrain, and usually infers a feeling of compulsion and obsession - both common traits in those suffering from alcohol addiction. Meehan 's refrains allow for more variation than one would generally encounter in traditional villanelles, preferring to engage with the more modern form wherein the repetition is not exact. This is evident with respect to the third line of the first tercet: 'not sure if the self is cell or warder, ' and the third line of the third tercet: 'you wonder if they are wards or warder. ' Such deviations serve to break from the rigid form of the more famed villanelles,