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In the past, critics classified "Darkness" as a "Last Man" poem, following a general theme of the end of the world scenes from the view of the last man on Earth. However, recent scholarship has pointed out the poem's lack of any single "Last Man" character. [ 11 ]
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
Chapter Three ('Varia Confusus Imagine Rerum') focuses on a sequence of passages (notably the deaths of Dido and Turnus), in which the goddess Juno, the poem's antagonist, plays an important role. Johnson agrees that Juno represents the powers of irrationality and darkness looming over the poem's characters.
From the Heart of Darkness, a 1983 short-story collection by David Drake In the Heart of Darkness , a 1998 Belisarius series novel by David Drake Out of the Heart of Darkness , 2023 album by L.A. Edwards
Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, who became notorious for his brutality, is one of the historical persons that may have inspired Kurtz's persona.. Kurtz's persona is generally understood to derive from the notoriously brutal history of the so-called Congo Free State, a territory that existed as the private property of King Leopold II from 1885 to 1908 until it was taken over by Belgium and became a ...
A Voice in the Wind (1993) is the first novel in Francine Rivers' Mark of the Lion series. The novel follows the lives of Hadassah, a young Jewish girl captured when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and is sold into slavery yet still holds firm to her faith in God; Marcus, a wealthy Roman aristocrat determined to get the most out of life; Julia, Marcus' younger sister, a high-spirited girl who ...
A young physician, Alexander, must choose one of the mauled bodies in the arena, so that he can examine it and further his knowledge as a physician. He chooses Hadassah's, only to discover that she is alive and that the lion has struck no vital organs. [4] On a sudden impulse, Alexander saves Hadassah and nurses her back to health.
The poem's epigraph, "Mistah Kurtz – he dead", is a quotation from Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), upon which the film is loosely based. [ citation needed ] The trailer for the film Southland Tales (2006), directed by Richard Kelly , references the poem, stating: "This is the way the world ends, not with a whimper but with a bang."