In a Dark Time

Deonte Thomas
Nimi Finnigan
Introduction to Poetry 2305
28 February 2012
In a racy Time Reflection
The song A unrelenting Time By Theodore Roethke was written in 1964. The poem is filled with darkness and vivid imagery portraying the rage that ane can issue forth in contact with during a life sentence. The author describes to us the passage he takes to finding himself in a time of pure despair (Roethke line9). Theodore Roethke takes us on a trip through the characters life using nature and darkness perchance depicting the overcoming of depression as he finds himself.
Throughout the poem Roethke uses Nature to illustrate an overall image of darkness. A captain of nature weeping to a tree (Roethke Line 4) present he uses auditory imagery to simulate the sound of the pervert against a tree during a storm. The word choice hither is interesting. Roethke uses the word lord making the nature, the wind, of the line more(prenominal) powerful, more dangerous. In the third stanza as a reader one becomes more aware of the characters awareness about the darkness that surrounds him. A steady storm of correspondences (Roethke line 13) in this line he not only reintroduces the image of a storm still he lets you know that the same storm continues to come.



The title In a Dark Time confirms that the storm is the same any time because he is letting you know that it is a dark time not multiple dark times. Could this darkness be a stage in his life that brings him a foolishness such as depression?
In the first stanza is where he introduces the fight within himself, I live between the fighter and the wren. (Roethke line 5) A heron is a large shit with long legs, a long S-shaped neck, and a long pointed report and a wren is a small short-winged songbird. He is stuck between the two not really knowing what to disunite himself as. This unclear picture of himself is driving him into a madness which is express in the first line of the second stanza Whats madness but nobility of the soul (Roethke line 7)....If you want to dismay a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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