Final Post for Jekyll & Hyde

Authors Note: This poem talks about how Hyde is taking over Jekyll and Hyde represents evil.

Inspiring Lines: Evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul, My evil kept awake by ambition, brute that slept within me, Evil left an imprint on the body

The bright light has faded

My soul has been raided

Darkness has crept around

As he loomed in the background

Closing the faint distance

I fade from existence

A faint breath is released

As Hyde overtakes the deceased

Hyde came to ascend

With no need to defend

The duality to unchain

He will feel no more pain

With expiring fear

Hyde swept in with a sneer

Evil displays itself through Hyde

Since Jekyll was pushed aside

Chapter 8 & 9 Jekyll & Hyde

Authors Note: What I did was took my text coding and made a big list of all the words and then I put them together in a poem. I saw this idea on Ms. Woods page and I thought it would be an interesting technique and new style for me try. Anyways this poem is basically capturing the moment of the murder scene and the transformation of Jekyll disintegrating and turning into Hyde.

Eyes direct to a corner

Looking with involuntary horror

Lashing themselves with strangling anguish

Blank silence                            

Nerves intensifying

Somewhat uncertain hand

His deceived voice cried out to God

Cries falling short of Heaven

Exorbitant cold alarms felt in the depths of marrow

Spine melting like ice

Shoulders bear the blame

Chill of horror reveals a lost soul

A semblance of life drifting from existence

Impure and quite useless for his present purpose

Jekyll morphs his naïve soul behind

Revealing the evil to come

Hyde whispers in with unleashed power

Jekyll’s departure is mourned

  

Vocab Words for Jeckyll & Hyde

Austere: Severe or strict in manner

Sullenness: Moroseness, a gloomy ill-tempered feeling

Balderdash: senseless talk or writing; nonsense

Disquieted: Make (someone) worried or anxious

Brandishing: Wave or flourish (a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement

Ch 4-7 Jeckyll & Hyde

Authors Note: In this poem, it demonstrates deliberate and saturated diction. I use the symbols of twilight, fog, moon and many others. Since chapters 4 through 7 were  mysterious and it was unsure of who did what; that is the emotion that I was trying to portray. In addition, I also portrayed a small amount of illusive confusion in the poem regarding Jekyll and Hyde as the same people.

Fog disperses a pale moon

While it appears in the twilight

Creating a distant moon to shine

Faintly uncovering the hidden night

Onlookers contain mysterious curiosity

Eyes traveling with the heavy fog

Trying to escape it’s deathly animosity

Unsuspectingly  it seeps into the minds of the unknown

Changing the spirit from night to day

Reaping what was previously sown

A shield of blanketing fog erupts

As the chained soul unleashes

Hyde’s prevailing darkness corrupts

As the frail window creeps to a close

Evil diffuses throughout the night

Leaving only a shadow of fear only Jekyll knows.

Symbolism and Denial in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We use the defense mechanism of denial to refuse the truth or an experience that happened in our lives. In the short story, a blistered and distained house stood out; the neglect of the house is  shown from the marks of chipped paint. The house stuck out in a way that differed from all other surrounding houses . The symbolism behind this house is specifically portrayed our past is our past, but even though it cannot reoccur it can always come back around to haunt oneself again. Once again this is demonstrating the usage of the defense mechanism denial because our past can only temporarily be covered up by, in this case, paint. Eventually it wears away and the past reappears in a way that one does not want to have seen by others. 

Darkness

Poem:

Inspiring Lines:

-        " There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something down-right detestable.        I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why."

k    "If he be Mr. Hyde, he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek."

      

      My Poem: I wrote about how darkness depicts evil.

Darkness appears in illusive ways

It creeps  in, when least expected

It  steals innocent children

It remains silent and undetected

From the darkness evil takes root

Seeping through crevices in souls

Overtaking innocence without awareness

Destroying the good in its path

When darkness falls, children scream

Mothers mourn and fathers crumble

Strangers quiver with streams of tears

Darkness wins as evil rejoices