Essay on Depression in Hopkins' Sonnets of Desolation

Glasgow sonnet is a touching poem written by Edwin Morgan and is about how Glasgow used to be, years ago and the effects that it had on people. It deals with an important issue such as poverty and we see the reality of it and how it shouldn’t be ignored. By examining Morgans use of techniques we will be able to seen more of the effects of poverty and how and things actually are Morgans makes the poem particularly effective by the use of sonnet structure, the first 8 lines show us the area and the surroundings and the second half shows us the inside of the situation including people having to deal with this poverty.

In the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," by Dylan Thomas, he uses various forms of diction and themes to explain death must not be something we greet with sorrow, but instead with the feeling of accomplishment. Thomas’s use of diction throughout the poem leans primarily towards the negative point of view of abandoning oneself during their final moments. The author twists the positive words in the villanelle to give them an adverse tone, as he uses good night not to wish someone a restful sleep, but to use it as a metaphor for death. The poem characterizes human beings into different categories, from the ones who know death is upon them and they accept the truth with open arms to the ones who are close to death but have not left

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,

Margaret Atwood’s collection of poems, Morning in the Burned House, could just as easily have employed morning’s homonym—mourning—in the title. The overriding theme of loss and some of its sources and consequences—aging, grief, death, depression, and anger—permeate this collection and, in particular, Section IV which is a series of elegiac poems about Atwood’s father.

“But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust. All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.” “From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition; but how am I sunk! Oh! my friend, if you had known me as I once was you would not recognise me in this state of degradation.” (24)

Additionally, since her work is very personal her feelings are clearly expressed through her words. The predominant emotions are anger and hope. Throughout her essay she is angry that writers are not expressing themselves to the fullest form. She described it as an injustice to the reader and to the writer. This is an injustice because a writer cannot pick and choose what is valuable, instead it is up to the reader, “ Whatever you find here of use you will take away with you, whatever you cannot use you will

The poems “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Hopkins and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden both represent a major point in life. In “Spring and Fall” a young girl begins to notice death and feel the since of mortality. While in “Those Winter Sundays” a young boy does not realize his father’s love until he is grown up. Both Poems show how as a child grows up he will look a life differently.

In modern times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, magazine ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beautiful people. But what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, one must reproduce so beauty will live.

“the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a Shakespearean sonnet that uses imagery to paint a picture of death/war stealing a lover’s happiness by portraying that the man is seduced away. This passage portrays that the lover cannot be happy for her significant other has been taken away by death/war. War has a negative effect on women, and the relationships with their lovers. When death takes away a woman’s lover, they must overcome sorrow and anguish of their loss.

O’Connor spoke freely about her own personal and religious experiences. She purposefully constructed her ideas in a rather graphic manner, “O’Connor was fully aware of the fact that her ideas were unusual, complex, and carefully constructed; she presented them in an exact manner” (Magee 4). Her convoluted beliefs were expressed through many works of art including “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. In stories like this, O’Connor portrays her liberty of expressing, through her writing, her Roman Catholic faith.

A man “who [held] a beast, an angel and a mad man in [him].” This accurately describes Wales-born Dylan Thomas, world renowned poet and writer. A developmental wordsmith of his time, Thomas presented the people with evolutionary compositions originated from his own personal experiences and conceptions. Although Thomas’ poetry portrays several messages involving loss of innocence and youth, his more prominent style bases itself around the Freudian concepts of psychoanalytic criticism. Observed through his opaque style and endless fascination of death in his works, it can be concluded that the psychoanalytic impressions in Thomas’ stream of consciousness declare death to be inferior. This is made even clearer as his creations describe the struggle of the conflicts of man and how they can be overcome.

Although the majority of Robert Hayden's writings address racial themes and depicts events in African-American history, he also wrote short poems that capture his own personal experiences. Hayden has an enormous amount of great poems and short stories, but as I read through many of them, I was touched by two specific poems that I felt I could personally relate to. I chose these poems because I am able to put myself into the story-line and understand what the writer is talking about. I believe that a good writer is able to reach any reader regardless of race, gender, or age. Hayden possessed an incredible skill with his language and the structures of his poems that could almost pull the reader right out of their chair and place them in the

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.

For many people, the thought of death is a terrifying concept to fathom. Whether a beloved family member, pet, or even emotions have died, death in any form continues to be a challenging subject to communicate about to others. From dances to songs and from paintings to writings, people express their views on death in a variety of forms and fashions. In William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” death exists as the main topic of both poems; however, Bryant’s and Thomas’s opinions on death contrast greatly in both works as a result of each poet’s religious beliefs, experiences, family and decisions that influenced the poems. Bryant and Thomas held different religious beliefs that influenced

Edgar Allen Poe's "Sonnet- to Science" is an example of how the structure of a poem can both aid and hinder the poet in communicating his or her thoughts. Usually, when the poet chooses to structure his poem in the form of a sonnet, he is, through his speaker, asking a question and reaching an answer. In this poem, however, the speaker, probably a young poet, questions Science but reaches no conclusion. Poe uses the English sonnet to communicate his youthful speaker's feelings of disdain for science and facts as opposed to mythology and fantasy, which inspire poetic musings. He implores Science as to why "she" must impose her "dull realities" on the hearts of poets like himself, squelching their