Dark Night of the Soul

it helps them in a hard time. One example for that is “The Raven”. The poem is written by Edgar Allan Poe and focuses on grief, sorrow and death. The main character suffers from sadness and depression due to the loss of his beloved Lenore. At one night, while he distracts himself of his sorrow, he believes he hears someone tapping at his chamber door and is left confused when he does not see anyone…

Gertrude’s fear of her son’s madness and so on. Bernardo’s question further sets a feeling of suspense into the audience; it forces the audience to wonder and await an answer. Bernardo’s notice that “Tis...struck twelve,” which is the time that unrested souls from the…

oneself is to potentially have the ability to do essentially anything and everything: the ability to appreciate flaws, to love oneself, to speak with confidence, and to feel proud of one’s efforts. To lack self-acceptance, is to be forced into the dark back alley, of little resources to hold, with so little perception of the world and so much vulnerability to self-deception. We cannot drown ourselves in self-deception, with each encounter seeking imperfections and faults, draining our wills and…

on the word “night”. They are prime examples of what it means to have differing perceptions of life and in their respective works, Night and “Hymn to Night” it shines through clearly. Throughout his autobiography, Wiesel zones in on the evilness and horrors of the night. It is inescapable and all-consuming. As his life in the concentration camps continues, he strays further and further from the light. The night is no longer just from sundown to sunrise, it continues to live in his soul 24 hours…

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Alec Mitchell, get down here right now! screamed my mother. Ah crap, I thought to myself, I had forgot to take the trash out. As I began my walk of shame downstairs I already knew my punishment, grounded for the rest of the night, because I had committed this crime many times before. My mom’s discipline was not going to my head. Similarly, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter the residents of a small, Puritan town in 17th century Boston clashed with the concept of punishment for two young…

into temptation (as in the Garden of Eden). Jesus needs to reverse Adam’s fall and it will burden His soul to breaking point. Jesus would suffer the trauma of a world cut off from God. Are we a church asleep, in denial of the power of Jesus’ cross to deliver from deceit and destruction? Christ’s PASSION hits the full force of reality as the traitor approaches. This is the “dark night of the soul”. This is Jonah in the belly of the whale. Chanting Psalm 18:45; 116:4 “The snares of death…

through the Dark by William Stafford a quick overview is that it gets into a man driving on a curvy road along a mountain side at night, then sees a dead deer on the road and gets out of his car and throws it into the river. The poem itself is exceedingly detailed and finds a way of pulling different emotions out of the reader, while also having different meanings to different people. My secondary source was by Terry Fairchild, who did an analysis on the poem traveling Through the Dark by…

of looking beyond one’s outer beauty. His painful beginnings inevitably left him empty and broken; but when he dug deep into his soul, he found that he had a deep passion that needed to be shared. If we follow Byron’s lead and look beyond one’s circumstances and outer appearances, we will find beauty that has the potential to shine brighter than the stars in a dark, cloudless…

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.” in this selection I can assume that there are dark time within his life. But,he has a “unconquerable soul” which lets him fight his problems. The message or theme would have to be to never give up. No matter what is throw at you in life you push…