Came The Whole Of The World's Tears 'And Empires Of Loneliness'

All times, the disappearance of cherishable beings brings people unbearable agony. Eventually, they cry, and then suffer more heartache, yet the attitudes when confronting a farewell vary dynamically within individuals. In Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”, both speakers experience a painful loss. However, while Thomas strongly opposes the undeniable fact of his father’s death process, Bishop reluctantly accepts the departure of her beloved. The two speakers react differently to recover from the ineluctable sadness, to regain inner peace. In the end, the poems’ comparison concludes losing valued relations is distressingly unavoidable, and that there is no ideal way to cope with losses. Therefore,

This contrasts sharply with the poetic devices used to emphasise the extent of the violence on the women in ‘A kind of love some say’, ‘Hard impact. Then swollen lids’. This shows us the impact of the love and the relationship is weighing her down. Love here is shown as a burden, which needs to be thrown away, ‘Of lost romance, but hurt’.

A great example of this is “And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured fourth upon all object of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom. (Poe 269)” This shows how sad and depressed he is. He shows such depressions in what he says and feels this shows he is not a happy man. It also show there is not something right and something bad will happen.

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

In life, everyone wants to have somebody they can call a friend. The unfortunate reality of this is that at some point in time, almost every person will experience loneliness. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, deals with the hardships of two friends who put their belief in a giant pipe dream. The book follows George and Lennie’s troubled and laborious life until their plans go very awry. “King of Hoboes, Arvel Pearson”, by Errol Lincoln Uys, is a nonfiction text which overviews Arvel Pearson’s life as a professional hobo. This includes a detailed version of what it was like to be a hobo in the time period known as the Great Depression and provides an idea of

What is a relationship worth if it will only end in misery? In the poem For That He Looked Not upon Her, English poet George Gascoigne explores the universal feeling of fear and disappointment with a multitude of vivid imagery, metaphors, and literary devices by painting a picture of fear, self loathing, destruction, and dread. In fifteen lines, Gascoigne uses multiple literary devices to communicate his ideas efficiently, but also with plenty of emotion. Gascoigne conveys his emotions through two deceivingly simple images: a mouse and a fly, which play into the entire poem as a whole.

Which is used to signify the sorrow and mellow tone of this

beloved dies. Throughout the poem, the speaker describes the hurt and sorrow that he is feeling

This is supported through his grievous diction throughout the poem. Through words like “loving”, Gascoigne uses his word choice to craft physical descriptions of the grief created in the man. The reader is able to create a picture in their mind of a male holding his head low due to his misery. This allows the reader to understand the ways in which gloom affects his outward appearance in society. Additionally, the usage of “grievous” in describing the game of love represents the outlook he’s developed due to the emotional damage caused by broken relationships full of lies and mistakes. He has learned that following the sudden attraction towards a woman, the process of forming and maintaining a healthy relationship is a hard process without much sense. Lastly, another example of these melancholy-associated words is “bale” in the final line. The captivating eyes of the woman are representative of his initial attraction physically towards the female, but now looking into them leads to feelings of despair and misery. Through these words (“loving”, “grievous”, and “bale”), Gascoigne has represented the emotional sadness and misery due to a broken relationship and established a mournful tone to accompany the previously addressed lesson learned from being hurt from

Everyone experiences love in their lifetimes, in one form or another, and the vast majority have also experienced what it feels like to loose a loved one. Whether it be in the form of a passionate partner leaving or whether it is a family member passing on. Because the passionate desire for another person is perhaps love’s most influential form, it leaves a profound emptiness within a person when it expires. In some poems, love is described as this cold and barren context which can grant more pain and hurt than a sense of completeness. This prompts us to question its actual value in our lives.

This is expressed by the multiple examples of old men whom regret certain aspects of their lives and defy death even when they know their time is up. The speaker is urging his father to fight against old age and death. The meaning and subject of the poem influence the tone and mood. The tone is one of frustration and insistence. Thomas is slightly angry and demanding. His words are not a request, they are an order. The mood of the poem is is serious and solemn due to the poem focusing mainly on the issue of death. This mood and tone is created by words such as “burn”(2), “Grieved”(11) and “rage”(3) along with phrases such as “crying how bright”(7), “forked no lightning”(5), “near death”(13) and “fierce tears”(17). The insistent feeling is also created by the repetition of the lines “Do not go gentle into that good night”(1), and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”(3). The figurative language used also affect how the meaning, tone and mood are interpreted.

In the poems you have studied a recurring theme is that of ‘loss’. This can take many forms: death; identity; hope or loss of innocence

There are several lines within this poem referring to motifs that revolve around pain and emotional outlet. The lines “to thrust all that life under your tongue!— / that, all by itself, becomes a passion / death’s a

The astonishing level of agony presented in a person when losing a loved one is described in the poem, “Stop All of the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden. In this poem, the poet describes the pain of ending an intense sensation of love when one of the partners passes away. The inability to cope once one’s love has ended provokes the feeling that life has ended due to the thought of not being able to live alone. This is found in the poem when Auden states, “For nothing now can ever come to any good” (Auden, 16). The author’s use of figures of speech, imagery, and diction allow her audience to understand the speaker’s true emotions over its’ overwhelming grieving period.

In the song “Tears in Heaven,” Eric Clapton grieves the loss of his six-year old son, Connor. To convey his grief, Clapton uses many musical devices throughout the song. Although all of these devices aid in showing his devastation, the most successful device in Clapton’s song is his meaningful lyrics. Through the lyrics of the song, Clapton presents his sorrow and comes to terms with his son’s death. Clapton communicates his grief of the loss of his son through the powerful lyrics in the song, “Tears in Heaven.”