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  1. ‘The Dark Forest’ by Edward Thomas is a beautiful, haunting poem about life, death, and our inability to commune with those on the opposite side. Through the image of the forest, and all that which resides within and around it, Thomas depicts the gulf that separates the living from the dead.

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  2. Some writers, like Edgar Allan Poe, were inspired by real-life sorrow, while others, like Conrad Aiken, looked too harrowing images from mythology and history to inspire their darkest works. Below are a few of the best examples of dark poems in the English language.

  3. Feb 10, 2018 · 8. Edward Thomas, ‘The Dark Forest’. Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead Hang stars like seeds of light In vain, though not since they were sown was bred Anything more bright … This poem from the wonderful nature poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917) begins by describing a forest at night, above whose trees the stars shine like ‘seeds of ...

    • Liu Cixin
    • 2008
    • “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound.
    • “If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?” ― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest.
    • “For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination.
    • “It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?” ― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest.
  4. With this poem, ‘Storm in the Black Forest‘, author D.H. Lawrence uses the personal voice of a speaker to describe a storm in most vivid detail. This particular storm happens to be one that Lawrence saw while he was in the Black Forest (hence, the title) when he visited the forest in 1929, the year before he died.

  5. May 13, 2011 · An analysis of the The Dark Forest poem by Edward Thomas including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.

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  7. Analysis (ai): This poem is a meditation on isolation and otherness. It uses imagery of a dark and mysterious forest to create a sense of alienation and impenetrability. The speaker observes the forest from afar, but is unable to enter or communicate with its inhabitants.

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