ESSAY CEMETERY

Themes Descriptions of sensations Memories Disaster feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling ... one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. City life In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June. Being in the moment Mixed, nonlinear temporality For it was the middle of June. The War was over, except for some one like Mrs. Foxcroft at the Embassy last night ...

Themes Disillusionment with religion: A ludicrous oleograph of our Savior preaching from a boat, which we always referred to as jocular Jesus. … Finally, when with flushed faces we sauntered out into the sunshine, he remarked that he'd half a mind to go and look for a young lady to make his wife jealous. I said that there was always the cathedral to look at, and discovered that I'd unintentionally made a very good joke. Violence and danger lurking around. Audio and visual representations: But on the horizon the bombardment bumped and thudded in a continuous bubbling grumble. … While I lay on the floor in my flea-bag the blackness of the night framed in the window was lit with incessant glare and flash of guns. Innocence corrupted - conceptions of purity shattered by violence: The Seventh Division Battle Plan didn't look aggressively unpleasant on paper as I transcribed it into my note-book. Rose Trench, Orchard Alley, Apple Alley, and Willow Avenue, were among the first obj...

  Themes Appreciation of the Greeks Greek references Intertextuality: Chapman's Homer, Chaucer, Petrarch Love or die Immortality for love Knight Women as sorceresses Meta- art Yearning for immortality Lovers depicted on the Grecian urn: Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Reveling in nature God No one who once the glorious sun has seen, And all the clouds, and felt his bosom clean For his great Maker's presence, but must know What 'tis I mean, and feel his being glow Poetry as sacred O Poesy! for thee I hold my pen That am not yet a glorious denizen Of thy wide heaven – Should I rather kneel Upon some mountain-top until I feel A glowing splendour round about me hung, And echo back the voice of thine own tongue? Excitement about writing poetry; emotions toward poetry Keep Sleep aloof: but more than that there came Thought after th...