Idea Analysis #21 + Commenttary

Gothic's dwell on Shame, anger, and Sadness, etc. The title itself gives us a suggestion that the Darken Veil, where they hind there face by darkness. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many words that have a sad/negetive mood on the poem. Words like "unborn, grief, lonely, endless gloom" give us the theory that his inward experience is a shame and sadness. There are many poets that expand on the same idea hawthorne does.The way Gothics write his they take extreme experience to show true self. What Expierence? He states that "Before my view" which means when he looks out in the world in front of him. Then he could see his path in front of him. All of his achievements and happiness. However, soon to come to realize the experience of poverty! Its there in that moment where he feels grief. Then all of that leads to his extreme experience of lonely. "Endless Gloom" Something that wont end but is an continuous cycle