Darkness By Eileen Chang Quotes

In the story a young boy decides to go hunting in the night and goes through a revelation as he witnesses an everyday act of the battle between light and darkness as the sun rises. Although set in a different place and time, both authors express a common universal theme: life is a constant battle between light and darkness in our everyday lives. This theme can be seen through a compare and contrast of powerful symbols, transforming settings and misguided characters.

Anthony Doerr proves the individual writing style in his characters development, symbols, and conflict in the novel “All The Light We Cannot See”. In his unique was he creates the characters who are believable and relatable to readers, yet unordinary, with the struggles and suffering a real person would do. This book brings an inscredible amount of feelings and inspiration for life to truly value the life and remember that the huge price was paid for the peace in which most of the today’s world

In the poem “Gretel in Darkness”, the author Louise Gluck writes based off of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale “Hansel and Gretel”. Gluck visualizes herself as Gretel, seeing and feeling from her point of view after being faced with her terrible encounter with the witch. Gretel is distraught and feels as though no one is there for her or cares about what she is feeling. She is overwhelmed with this certain sensation of darkness. Darkness is a word filled with a strong meaning. It represents the absence of light, an important aspect used in sight. As a result darkness denies humans this sense which can make a person feel trapped, unable to see or protect oneself. The speaker is haunted by her past unable fulfill her expected “happy

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

She takes advantage of her passion for the darkness as a way of persuading her side of the argument, placing greater favor upon the peacefulness in darkness versus chaos in the light. Also her description of her emotions when she is surrounded by darkness suggests that our busy lives in the light have taken relaxation away from our lives; darkness helps us fall back into simpler times and serenity.

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

Lightness and darkness is a common theme throughout literature, most writers use it through symbols in their writing. In Poe’s story “Masque of the Red Death” and Hawthorne’s story “Minister’s Black Veil” both portray themes of lightness and darkness using symbolism throughout.

The darkness in this quote represents the negativity and disadvantages that surround both of their lives in Harlem. The light and darkness in this story both symbolize the hope and struggles that they will continue to face throughout their lives.

Darkness is a recurring image in literature that evokes a universal unknown, yet is often entrenched in many meanings. A master poet, Emily Dickinson employs darkness as a metaphor many times throughout her poetry. In “We grow accustomed to the dark” (#428) she talks of the “newness” that awaits when we “fit our Vision to the Dark.” As enigmatic and shrouded in mystery as the dark she explores, Dickinson's poetry seems our only door to understanding the recluse. As she wrote to her friend T.W. Higginson on April 15, 1862, “the Mind is so near itself – it cannot see, distinctly”(Letters 253). In this musing, she acquiesces to a notion that man remains locked in an internal struggle with himself. This inner

Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne all tend to focus on the darker side of humanity in their writings. In order to allow their readers to better understand their opinions, they often resort to using symbolism. Many times, those symbols take the form of darkness and light appearing throughout the story at appropriate times. A reader might wonder how light functions in the stories, and what it urges the reader to consider. If we look carefully at these appearances of light, or more likely the absence of it, we can gain some insight into what these "subversive romantics" consider to be the truth of humanity. Hawthorne uses this technique to its fullest; however, it is also very

For the most part, life revolves around light. Certain tasks are done in the light, while others are not. Light comes in many forms, as seen through Pablo Neruda’s Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Throughout the poetry collection, Neruda uses light imagery to portray the themes of love, happiness, sadness, heartache, hopelessness, darkness, destruction, negativity, and life which can compel the reader to ponder over the poetry. Neruda creates light images to portray the themes through references of lamps, twilight/night, shadows and fire in the poems The Light Wraps You (II), In My Sky at Twilight (XVI) and Thinking, Tangling Shadows (XVII).

This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, from many different poet’s viewpoints of dark to light. I chose dark to light as my topic. I chose this topic because I believe that many people find themselves in a dark place where is hard to come out from. However, there is always a light that helps people through the dark times in life. Dark can come from war and suffering from many different things. The light represents a life saver and a symbol of hope to keep pushing forward and a way of help to get out from a dark place.

He idealizes Mangan’s sister, and portrays her as his only source of light in his bleak world. The boy describes his street as having “dark muddy lanes behind the houses…dark dripping gardens where odours arose from the ashpits” and the rooms of his house “musty from having been enclosed too long”. These depictions demonstrate how repressed he feels regarding his lifeless surroundings. Meanwhile, illustrations of Mangan’s sister are associated with light and ease, “her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door” or “the light from the lamp…lit up her hair”. The boy clings on to the image of the girl and intoxicates himself with emotions of delight and exhilaration. This drives him to embark on the journey to the bazaar, along with high expectations of exotic surroundings. However, he is met with heavy disappointment - a train that drops him at an “improvised wooden platform” and a “silence like that which pervades a church after a service”. He comes to an epiphany – Mangan’s sister was only an arrogant wish for change and she would only fail his expectations as well, his infatuation was as misleading as his fantasies about the

When the sun sets every day we come face to face with the dark and the night, because it seems that it can bring out the invisible monsters that hide from the sun. The night and the dark go hand in hand, yet the two are portrayed as different in the poems and maybe even in our head. In this essay the two poems that support my views are written by two great authors, Dickinson with the poem “We grow accustomed to The Dark” and Robert Frost with the poem “Acquainted with the dark”. The dark is a sadness that we find ourselves with sometimes but can move on from, whereas the Night is more like an invisible monster that is always walking with you. The authors’ use of free vs. concrete structure, singular vs. plural point of views and the unnatural vs. natural imagery in the poems lead to the themes and the feelings in the poem of Dickinson’s having a hopeful undertone while Frosts’ poem remains to stay negative.

The sun slides away taking the sunset with it, and a million yellow streetlights spring up for those of us defenceless enough to miss her. They can’t quite make the dust motes dance the same way, but they shed enough light to cast faint shadows on the walls, until a real shadow comes to close the curtains, and leave them that way. I used to be afraid of the dark, like most children, but I had a father who would stay beside me for a while, until I discovered how misplaced my fear had been. I outgrew it, but he’s always been there when he needed me.