Explain Why Is The Darkness So Ostracized

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

In the story darkness represents the oppression of the African American community living in Harlem during the 1950’s. Harlem is a major place for African Americans. Harlem was their little world where there’s no whites or any other race but them. It also takes place before civil rights, meaning that African Americans didn 't have any right. Harlem is not as perfect as they wish it was, in fact its nothing but hopeless. Nobody in Harlem is meant to move forward. As the narrator refers to the young kids in Harlem “They were filled with rage. All they knew was two darkness, the darkness of their lives…and their darkness in the movies, which had blinded

The realism movement of the late nineteenth century produced works in literature that were marked by reduced sentimentality and increased objectivity. The goal was to let details tell the story, and remove noticeable bias of the author through scientific and detailed descriptions. While this form of storytelling undoubtedly is most accurate, it creates difficulties for authors to incorporate their themes into the story. This resulted in an increase in symbolism in realist works. The objects and descriptions within the story are the author’s vehicle for displaying the values and themes of the work. Light and darkness are symbols commonly used in literature, and have held specific symbolic

In order to maximize meaning and overall total effect of a piece of work, writers use various literary devices.  These techniques enhance the author's work and add a dimension that results in higher reader satisfaction.  Throughout the poems I have read this quarter thus far, I have discovered the use of imagery as a prominent source of literary embellishment.  In particular the image of night is used in poems "Acquainted with the Night," written by Robert Frost, and  "Her Kind," written by Anne Sexton, to portray a dark and lonely tone.  All through both poems there is a dark feeling due to word selection and associations to evil

The use of imagery is very strong throughout this poem. Words like “mellow,” “pale,” “drowsy,” “melancholy,” and “dull,” suggest to the reader that the atmosphere surrounding the speaker is dark and gloomy. Even lights in the street is not sufficient to brighten the surroundings, being that the only source of light stated is the pale dull pallor of an old gas light. The haziness of this light with darkness of the night, evokes a sense of sluggishness in the atmosphere. The singer speaks of his struggles and opinions, and it is reflected in the third stanza: “With his ebony hands on each ivory key”

Poets, as well as other types of writers, often use the night as a symbol for the darker aspects of human existence. Both Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost utilize this metaphor in We Grow Accustomed to the Dark and Acquainted with the Night, respectively. In We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, Dickinson likens darkness to fear, and examines how one can overcome such apprehension, and thus thrive. Dickinson also uses the theme of darkness to examine the uncertainty of searching for truth and knowledge. In Acquainted with the Night, Frost speaks to his own experiences by using the night to symbolize the unpleasant parts of his own life, particularly his depression and loneliness. Dickinson and Frost develop these metaphors by utilizing point of view,

“The Fall Of The House Of Usher” is a suspense, novel written by the famous dark romantic “Edgar Allen Poe”. Poe is a master at making the creepy, even more horrifying by using specific tone. His tone is is the idea of prevailing darkness and pure gloom. Just about everything in this story is draped in darkness to add to his sinister plot. And at no point is there a happy feeling, the plot just keeps dragging the character into a deeper pit of despair.

Depression is the leading mental illness worldwide, affecting millions of people every day. As one of the most common mental illnesses, it can occur to anyone, at any age, and to people of any race or ethnic group. With his book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron became of the first people to publicly acknowledge his struggling battle with depression. Darkness Visible is an intense and haunting account of Styron’s own suicidal depression in which he reminds us of the toll that this dreadful illness can have on an individual. As Styron describes his own descent into depression, he tells about the place that he was in, “the despair beyond despair” as he describes it to be. Since its publication, his memoir has been appreciated throughout the world and become a helping hand for people around the world who are suffering from depression. Styron’s description of his experiences resonates with people in a deep and profound way, turning his work into an advocate for the movement for the awareness for depression

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. This quote was presented by a famous, intelligent African American man named Dr. Martin Luther King. I believe that this quote means in order to stop the violence we have to be non-violent as people. Because of his marches and protest, which was all nonviolent has made a big change in our country from then to now.

Throughout the story, Paz challenges the universal assumption that light represents security and darkness represents danger whilst simultaneously maintaining traditional archetypes of knowledge and ignorance. Within the first paragraph of the story, the narrator receives a deterrent about entering the night alone: “‘Hmmm -- everything’s closed. And no streetlights around here. You’d better stay put” (Paz 1). The boardinghouse owner’s warning regarding the lack of streetlights suggests that the narrator is most susceptible to danger when traveling in the dark; however, this proves to be untrue, for not a single threat presents itself to him until the moonlight breaks through the dark clouds. While wandering through night in the midst of his

“No one knows what the future holds. That’s why its potential is infinite” (Okabe, Rintarou). The future is unpredictable. No one knows when they will be thrown into the darkness, but what is important is learning how to adjust. In Emily Dickinson’s poems of “When we grow accustomed to the dark” and “Before I got my eye put out” both of the speakers learned how to adjust in the darkness. The speakers from the both poem felt lost and lonely at first but with time they adjust and learn to see in their own way. However in one poem the speaker experiences physical darkness and the other experiences metaphorically.

The characteristics of the poetic mode that are presented in the documentary Lessons of Darkness directed by Werner Herzog are: poetic fragmentation, non-specific characters, and knowledge comes from feeling. Throughout the whole film there are long takes of landscapes, bodies of water, burning fires, and firefighters putting out fires. All the shots are just a series of fragments used to represent the Gulf War aftermath. The fragments are “breaking up space and time into multiple perspectives, denying coherence…” (Nichols 165), which result in ambiguity.

“Consumption and commercialisation has come in – it sells records, cosmetics, and has become a vehicle for capitalism. But it is still entrenched in racist meaning. Nowadays it may be less about social mobility and more about desirability.” ( Adewunmi para 10) meaning that darkness can only be desirable

“We grow accustomed to the dark” is about how people grow accustomed to “the unknown” and how most of the time people walk around not knowing what they want or how to achieve it. People do things that they

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” (Tutu). This quote by Desmond Tutu speaks about how, having hope can bring light that will break through the darkness. Throughout the history, humans have been shrouded in darkness, within the darkness, they cannot see the truth of what is happening in front of them. Furthermore, in his Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, the darkness comes out from within all the characters that Conrad has created. In Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, he uses the literary elements of symbolism, characterization, and setting to illustrate the them, when humans are surrounded by darkness it can be difficult for them to see the truth.