![]() ![]() RICHIE NORTONĪ beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ROBERTO BOLAÑOĮvery sunset is an opportunity to reset. The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower. Pick your favorite one and make sure you share it with your friends.Ī sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night. However, we don’t always need so many words to make a good statement, so enjoy the following short sunset quotes. Great authors use hundreds of words when describing those breath-taking sunsets. The sky was a bruised red shot with black, almost exactly the colors of a tattoo. To capture a California sunset in South Pasadena is to hold an angel’s wings with bated breath. ANGIE THOMASĪs the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. It’s that time between day and night when the sky looks like it’s on fire and mosquitoes are on the hunt. Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one. The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky. ![]() STEPHEN KINGĪ large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies/ Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder:/ And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes/ Draw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder. Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor… great scarlet arcs of silk… saffron… green… crimson… and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite… and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills… JOHN COLDSTREAM The girls wandered down a long pineland aisle that seemed to lead right out into the heart of a deep-red, overflowing winter sunset. It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist. JO WALTONīursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. Whether they are referring to the explosion of colors in the evening sky or have found a beautiful metaphor for the sun going down - all the sunset quotes below are worth reading. He is the author of, among others, The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History and The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem.Every writer has its own unique way of seeing and describing the sunset. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University. But for Plath, the mirror doesn’t merely reflect: it somehow sees people, too. This is not some hall of mirrors at a fairground, which deliberately distorts faces and body shapes: whatever we see when we look in the mirror is what the mirror was accurately and faithfully ‘swallowed’. In summary, the mirror tells us that it has ‘no preconceptions’: it is ‘exact’, with the implication that it simply shows us what it ‘sees’. In this short poem, she uses the image of a mirror at a party, throwing back at her the half-familiar sight of her own self, as a way of pondering the relationship between love and self-love.Ī poem, bordering on dramatic monologue, in which a mirror speaks to us, addressing the reader in a matter-of-fact tone, reflecting the flatness of its surface and its inability to do anything other than reflect back to us what it ‘sees’. Jennings (1926-2001) deserves a wider readership than she currently enjoys. The shortest poem on this list, and a nice companion-piece to Plath’s. Like Plath’s mirror poem below, this (altogether shorter) poem is spoken by the mirror itself, announcing that it stands between the spectator and their eyes and ‘collects no interest’. A cryptic imagist poem thus becomes a poem about ‘self-reflection’ in both senses.Įlizabeth Bishop, ‘ To Be Written on the Mirror in Whitewash’. But reflection is one of the interpretations of the poem that have been proposed – namely, that the short imagist masterpiece ‘The Pool’ describes the poet coming face-to-face with her own mirror-image in the surface of the water. To be honest, this poem doesn’t mention mirrors, and may not even be about reflections. In this poem, the great-grand-niece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes a speaker’s confrontation of a strange image in her mirror – an image which is some dark version of herself, possessed of ‘womanly despair’… ![]()
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