As Night Gathers in Literature?
Thursday August 7, 2008
I love night! There's something about the play of light and shadows--the sometimes almost-perfect silence... until the crickets start their song. I love the spots of light: fireflies flashing back and forth in the gathering darkness, the lights off down the road (or on the hillside. Night is filled with mystery, and it's all about the unknown/unknowable--the unseen.
The coming of night, the sounds of night, and the dreamy quality of experiencing the darkness are all part of literature. Night is that period from sunset to sunrise. The darkness sometimes seems to engulf everything with gloom or despair (or perhaps just the reflective feel). Read on:
The coming of night, the sounds of night, and the dreamy quality of experiencing the darkness are all part of literature. Night is that period from sunset to sunrise. The darkness sometimes seems to engulf everything with gloom or despair (or perhaps just the reflective feel). Read on:
- Night - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
- Meeting at Night - Robert Browning
- Voices of the Night - Henry Wadesworth Longfellow
- On the Beach at Night - Walt Whitman
- The Night Journey - Rupert Brooke
- At Night - George Edgar Montgomery
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I don’t get poetry at all. Can you help me understand it?
Yes sometimes they do post comments. Even if they don’t, I’m sure a lot of people read this blog. Ms Esther treats us to masterpieces from the world of literature. With life being so hectic nowadays, how many of us really get the time to read good literature? This blog fulfills a purpose. Personally I don’t comment most of the time, but I do wait for this to appear in my mail.
The selection of poems by subject and theme allows a commendably comparative insight and appreciation of poetry’s astounding multiplicity. By exhibiting the imaginative variety of technique and tone, perspective and nuance, such gatherings reveal the inexhaustible richness of our poetic heritage. It is a happy heuristic worth emulating.