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…chose to marry a man that reminded her of him elude to her grief in losing her father and missing his presence. She also expresses a dark anger toward him for his political views and actions in such passages as: “Not God but a swastika / so black no sky…

…The Light of the Heart After reading Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", I can easily imagine an old man walking lonely deep in the night. That picture is lasting in my mind for so long, which do not easily go away…

…HOPE It had been a beautiful day. He thought. It would be the first day of the rains. The day began with dark overcast skies, holding heavy gray clouds, he knew a heavy downpour would occur. Now, towards evening, it had cleared up a bit…

…dark clothes and other external signs of mourning are nothing in comparison with what he feels in his heart. He is disgusted with life, and the world appears to him "weary, stale, flat, and, unprofitable," a place fit for only those who are gross and ill…

…Element" will be different to "The Matrix Revolutions" because it is set above ground and is a brighter almost slightly light hearted world whereas "The Matrix Revolutions" is set below ground and has a very dark and heavy atmosphere. Sound and music…

…and the unreal. <Tab/> The opening of the poem is very heavy and negative; 'my heart aches', with 'numbness pains my sense' making the reader think that it must be a very heavy pain to be felt when a person is numb. He feels as if he might have…

…through the concept of a sort of demon possession, which he feels roots from a certain “PERVERSENESS” that is “one of the primitive impulses of the human heart (p322).” Through the narrator’s words, Poe presents the dark side of the human mind, where you “do…

…heart is racing and every creak you hear is a footstep, every groan is someone (or something) breathing. Fear can distort a persons senses and heighten the imagination. In the short story "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", by Ambrose Bierce, this experience…

…heart; that his heart will grow cold and stop singing the joys of love. The nymph's reply in the third stanza talks about how the <a href="http://go-advertising.com?go=flowers" onmouseover="window.status = 'goto: flowers';return 1" onmouseout…

…(as was the case in both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado") to delve into the inner workings of the dark side of the mind. Style and Interpretation "'The Black Cat' is one of the most powerful of Poe's stories, and the horror stops short…