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Connections to Dark
Connections to Dark Romanticism
Dark Romanticism was a period in the nineteenth
century where individuals were interested in
exploring the real interworking of the mind. To depict
their emotions, they gave it that mysterious and dark
nature. Many writers at the time used different tools
to show their misery, but also to explain the
difficulties they went through. Edgar Allan Poe and
Nathaniel Hawthorne use symbolism and figurative
language to portray the sadness, grief, and struggles,
all in which tie into dark romanticism.
In "Alone," a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, he uses items
and nature to symbolize the dark parts of him that
always remained. Poe says, "From childhood's house I
have not been / As others wereI have not seen / As
others sawI could not bring / My passions from a
common spring / From the same source I have not
taken" (1-5). 1 He uses a childhood's house to
symbolize the normality of children, and it shows that
he felt as if he could never belong anywhere because
of his differences and uniqueness. He couldn't see the
views and outlooks of others, and that caused him to
question everything about himself. Humans tend to
compare themselves to surrounding people, and it
makes people question their abilities, actions, and
traits. He then says, "And the cloud that took the form
/ When the rest of Heaven was blue / Of a demon in
my view" (20-22). He uses the color blue to represent
the similarity and ordinariness of everybody, but also
to display happiness in comparison to his gray cloud.
The cloud symbolizes his train of thought, how he is,
and who he is. The demon could represent his
connection with darkness, or him and how he

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interprets his being. Poe also uses figurative language

to show his grief in another direction. He says, "My
sorrowI could not awaken" (6). His sadness was
something he felt as permanent, and rather

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emotions as people, for example, Passion. He says:

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A funeral train comes gliding by your bed, in which

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continuous. He compares his sorrow to sleeping, and

his sorrow is personifying as an animate object. He
uses diction like sorrow 2, storm, and mystery to give
it a cryptic, shadowy approach.
In "The Haunted Mind," Hawthorne uses items to
symbolize the darkness that controls and stays within
him. He says, "In the depths of every heart, there is a
tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and
revelry above may cause us to forget their existence,
and the buried ones, or prisoners, whom they hide. 3
But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark
receptacles are flung wide open." He is saying that
everyone has their battles and demons, and although
people can be easily distracted, the demons are still
there and they still haunt. Although people tend to
forget them, the night and darkness cause individuals
to remember those inner thoughts chosen to be
pushed aside, even though they can never be
forgotten 4. Nobody has control of his or her feelings
and contemplations, and it causes people to feel
trapped with no escape whatsoever. Hawthorne also
corporates figurative language by using certain

Passion and Feeling assume bodily shape, and things

of the mind become dim spectres 5 to the eye. There is
your earliest Sorrow, a pale young mourner, wearing
a sister's likeness to first love, sadly beautiful, with a
hallowed sweetness in her melancholy features, and
grace in the flow of her sable robe. 6 Next appears a
shade of ruined loveliness, with dust among her hair

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and her bright garments all faded and defaced,

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stealing from your glance with drooping head, as

fearful of reproach; she was your fondest Hope, but a
delusive one; so call her Disappointment now. 7 A
sterner form succeeds, with a brow of wrinkles, a
look and gesture of iron authority; there is no name

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mystery, and something that explores the dark parts

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that lie deep in Mr. Hooper, a side nobody had seen

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before. He says, "All though 16 life that piece of crape

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for him unless it be Fatality, an emblem of the evil

influences that rules your fortunes; a demon to whom
you subjected yourself by some error at the outset of
life, 9 and were bound his slave forever, by once
obeying llim 10. 8 (Hawthorne, jjjj 11)
This gutting feeling starts to form in the stomach
while all of the feelings become real. He describes all
of his emotions as actual people, along with their
actions towards that sentiment and the characteristics,
which tie into the evident feeling. Sorrow is
described 12 as a griever, and once another girl by the
name of Hope has done something wrong, she is now
called Disappointment, for her simple actions can only
lead to her reputation. Fatality 13 is a man who
succumbed to the temptations of evil, and for that, the
guilt took over his body and killed him.
In "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, he uses symbols and figurative language
to preserve the secret behind the black veil.
Hawthorne uses the black veil as a symbol to 14 his

had hung between him and the world; it separated

him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, 17
and kept him in the saddest of all prisons, his own
heart; and still it lay upon his face, as if to deepen the
gloom of his darksome chamber, and shade him from
the sunshine of eternity" (Hawthorne2, jjj 18). 15 The

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black veil separated him from the world and the

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people that he loved, but also kept him locked and

trapped in the worst prison of all which was his mind
and heart. The black veil disconnected him from his
eternal happiness. Hawthorne then uses figurative
language to compare a cloud to the veil and sun to his
eyes. Mr. Hooper's wife goes on to say, "'Come, good
sir, let the sun shine from behind the cloud'"
(Hawthorne, jjj 19). She wants him to unveil the mask,
or figuratively, the darkness. The black veil represents
separation and sin. Because of the veil, it separated
and terrified his loved ones, usually resulting to them
leaving him. Hooper also says that he will wear the
black veil until eternity, and then when he gets to
heaven, the veil will be uncovered, and he'll be able to
see the sunshine. He'll finally be free of the sin, the
guilt, the sadness and the grief that he felt as 20 a
mortal being.
All in all, each of these works ties into dark
romanticism because they each give life a dull, deeper
meaning. Many writers told stories and wrote poems
in shadowy approaches instead of casually trying to
tell the story. By using symbolism and figurative
language, they were able to portray their sorrow and
wretchedness to the reader, and because of that, one
could feel the emotions behind the simple words on a
page.