Dark Night of the Soul

When one thinks of language one seems to forget that language itself is one of the oldest human inventions due to its use from ancient times. We use language simultaneously from a very young age that we got used to it as a habit. Not as means of communicating or conveying a message to another party. Another form of communication and message delivery is art. Everything that informs us about ancient cultures is in the form of art whether through scriptures, drawings or writings. When words failed…

Kiss I saw this performance on Friday night, my initial reaction was a lot of confusion. The first act of the play was the story of some friends in Syria with a love affair, at times funny and sometimes awkward. The female lead was in love with her best friend’s boyfriend, who was also her boyfriend’s best friend, and they had wanted to start a relationship of their own. However she was going to be proposed to, this conflict made the story very intriguing because I wanted to see who the girl…

variety and vitality of the beauty of his people. - My People, is made up of three, two-line stanzas, that used very simple, or informal diction. - He compares his people to the dark night. Both which he described as beautiful. However, he also compares his people to the sun, which reflects the dignity and passion of their souls. - In Harlem, Hughes's Harlem Renaissance peers and critics wanted his writings to focus only on the good parts of African Americans, in order to create a stand for…

first stanza is accompanied by colourful, joyful, and peaceful images, ones of ‘green leaves’, ‘shadowy lakes’, and ‘the wild wood’ indicating the naivety of the child mentioned and their eternal optimism on life and love. The second stanza takes a dark turn at the introduction of the condor. A condor is a bird of prey, constantly vigilant, always hovering. It is this image that indicates the negative emotions related to the final stanza, it shows the looming of pessimism on the adult mind, how…

Wind howled at sunset leafs and the swollen silver moon rose from its uncoiled grave as the sun nestled once more into the grip of heaven's edge. Those nights you could smell autumn in the air, and even a deaf man would have heard the season’s calls, light and entangled with icy breath. The pathway flooded with crisp yellow leaves turned soggy from mid-night's rain. The gate would rust over and I would…

and Poe does his best to showcase the flaws in the human brain. In two of his short stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe illustrates two men who go mad over small things. The narrator of “The Black Cat” starts down a dark path of alcohol and rage. He believes that his first cat Pluto is avoiding him and retaliates by cutting out its eye. Later he becomes increasingly more murderous when he sees the shape of the gallows on a new cat’s fur and on the wall of his…

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…

arrested. “Alcina, who was given no trial, no defense, was quickly condemned to death by the vicar, her execution would be carried out by burning. He, had convinced the villagers it was the only way he, a man of God, could save her soul, and free the village from her dark magic. Purification by fire, he had called it. “Abellona and Emma were later questioned and then locked away in a shed that’d been used to store the village’s excess food supplies, but had recently, for the past few…

Tragedy is defined as an event that results in massive suffering, destruction and distress for all parties that are both directly and indirectly involved. When reviewing the story of Macbeth, many readers label the story as a tragedy, however because Macbeth is composed of a plethora of elements it cannot be simply defined by the word tragedy. The question at hand is, why should Macbeth’s death should be pitied when he himself has committed unspeakable acts. This is where Aristotle’s theory of…

Part A Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around…