After Darkness Essay

readers of every age to grapple with and discern her conclusions. Many of her poems captured in her Pulitzer Prize winning collection “New and Selected Poetry” feature her rapturous lyricism covering her absent apprehension about what will happen after she takes her last earthly breath. Through her use of symbolism, light and dark imagery, and allusion in her poem “White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field” (page 99), Oliver argues that death is not something that should preoccupy human fears…

Throughout the tale told within Albert Camus’s The Stranger, there is a reoccurring theme of darkness versus illumination within every chapter. The motif is indicative of Meursault’s character as a person. The ways that dark and light respectively affect Meursault speak for his personality where the words do not explicitly say them. The theme of contrasting light and dark being as prevalent as it is entails that the motif was meant to be noticed -- and is occasionally difficult for a reader to…

life to strive for something different, but he selects the shade instead, a representation of his abandonment of life itself. The deaf man brings himself to the bar and the light every night, but eventually he always leaves, walking off into the darkness, putting the light and hope behind him. The old waiter also attempts to cure the flaws in his life as well as provide salvation for those who need it through the lights of the bar, proclaiming that “the light is very good,” and that light is all…

With all the darkness around him, he sees her as a light. When he talks to her on the steps, he remembers it like this, "The light from the lamp opposite our door caught the white curve of her neck, lit up her hair that rested there and, falling, lit up the hand upon…

instead I will him to be calm. Not all of us that live in the dark are so bad. There are some that I tend to avoid, especially if I was a young human. The dark ones, the creatures that don't hide in the closet, the ones that are standing in the darkness and are a part of it. They are the reason I have watched so many humans fear the dark even though they are certain there is nothing there. Those creatures are the reason you humans walk into a room and then forget why you’ve come. But…

mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!” (Lines 17 and 18). At this last stanza I find that Bryon thought of her so much more than just a pretty face. All of her is beautiful and he may be the only one who sees that. Finally after how carefully he described her in a slow and calm way, he ends the poem with an exclamation point as if he is crying for her. She has put him in awe through her love and it is not even directed to him. He needs her balance to keep at ease and she…

staring me in the face. Empty, meaningless nothing, full of invisible eyes poking holes in the walls I have surrounded myself with all my life. The darkness probed the deepest corners of my mind, greedily drinking in my memory, my thought, my existence. I struggled only for a brief moment, then gave in to the decedent feeling of giving up. Instantly the darkness lifted its weight off of my limbs, my lungs took in false air, but my heart did not beat. I took my first steps into the dark, feeling…

dark night, and bring beauty to a negative situation. However, this happiness does not last long as “arbitrary blackness gallops in” (5) shortly after. The darkness “galloping” gives an urgency to the darkness that consumes the stars. This darkness, can be pulled back to mental illnesses once again as it is commonly associated with depression. This darkness came and kicked the stars out, similar to how her depression replaced her happiness once the relationship…

society. First, exploring the roots of origin in the word “shadow”, the word can be traced back to Old English originating as “Sceadwe”, “Sceaduwe”, or “Sceadu.” This was derived from the Greek translation of the Hebrew meaning, which means “intense darkness.”(Word Etymology) A new definition has taken root in its place since then. The definition of…

Societal Savagery There is an evil, from immoral actions and villainous desires, possessed in all beings. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a complicated and allegorical novel that suggests this theory. When a plane is shot down after being mistaken for a military craft, the school boys that survive the crash are forced to create civilization on an isolated island. With the outside world engulfed in war, two boys, Jack and Ralph, attempt to bring order to the island. This becomes…