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…."(stanza 12) The man speaks in reference to his wife holding him back from his journeys. I see this as an underlying feeling of uncertainty questioned by his beliefs. "Poor Little Faith!" thought he, for his heart smote him (stanza 5). The Faith…

…brimming with repressed emotion and dark secrets, Bronte’s Jane Eyre explores the idea of social constraints and the powers of the heart needed to break them.…

…as a creation planted in the thoughts of the poor soul. Another aspect of this amazingly eerie story is the elements of freighting rhyme. Edger Allan Poe uses words that entrap the reader into them. Like most of his work, it carries a sense of darkness and evil…

…throughout: For all his dark appearance and lean and hard look, this Shane knew what would please a boy. . . . [M]y heart ached for him. . . . Love for that man raced through me. .. . and I was so proud of being there with him that I could not keep…

…angel” as he refers, than his dark mistress, or the “worser spirit,” both impose their strong lustful control over him by arousing his desire-soaked heart. However, in lines one and two he notes that though one of his loves may be of “comfort,” and the other…

…perfect match. The town was busy as usual with people in such a hurry to get where they were going. As she walked and said hello to her usually friends she spotted a stranger eyeing her from afar. The stranger had dark hair, dark eyes. He was the most…

…lost, it can be dangerous. The tone that Shirley Jackson uses in “The Lottery” is not completely consistent with the themes mentioned above. She uses a light tone, but there’s a dark ending and a dark theme to this story. The main theme is how traditions…

…<Tab/> The thin air held a frigid tone this evening, and a slight breeze brought a sudden rush of coldness to my face. "It's safe Tom. Come NOW!" My pounding heart raced as I stumbled to the nearest tree. It was very dark (almost pitch…

…of society’s unbending standards of loyalty add to the ironic and emotional atmosphere of the novel. She also contrasts colors of Zeena and Mattie, showing how dark and black Zeena is, to the vibrance of (red) Mattie. These all add to the personal style of Edith…

…-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of heat…