George Gordon, Lord Byron’s “Darkness” (1816; 1816) I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
In "Darkness" no deity appears at all, leaving man on his own in the face of universal chaos. The imagery of the two poem also links them together. Here, as in "Darkness," light and fir* …
The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr’d within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp’d, They …
pursuing the significance of darkness in Byron’s poetic prophecy of the end of the world. Being that darkness is signaled explicitly in both the poem’s title and its concluding image, it seems …
Feb 17, 2024 · And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it.” Isaiah 6:8-10- “And I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will …
Light came out of this river since -- you say Knights? Yes; but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth …
It is a plain state-ment of record and observation, written without license and without garnish.