Loss of Hope Despair
Loss of Hope Everyone I know has experienced a certain sense of wanting to give up or a “loss of hope” in either a situation or with life itself. Despair by definition is a loss of hope or a giving up; without hope or expectation. This “despair” is represented in full realm in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Miniver Cheevy” and ”Mr. Flood’s Party”, Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” and in John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 14” The exploration of despair or darkness, in the selected poems, provides insight into the realm of despair from different prospectives. ... Eben seems to have allowed this consummation leaving him in such a state of despair that he has given up on human relationships. ... ” As ironic as it may seem, he is content with this for he has lost hope that it could be any other way. “He takes tender care of the “jug“ for it contains the only hope for him to continue living” (Anderson 48). ... ” “Even the song that he sings is one with negative connotation and lacks any hope” (Reuben). ... Although he puts deep thought into the type of world he would like to live, a fantasy world if I may refer to it as that, he has no hope of ever achieving happiness in his world that he resorts back to alcohol to offer some solace. ... Miniver couldn’t deal with the real world in which he lived not did he possess the security or hope that he could experience happiness in this “commonplace.