![]() Questioning the world and the responsibilities I am givenġ. Taking the faded clouds and creating a sky-quilt of originalityīut deep within my soul there exists a wall There exists an urge for creativity in my soulĪ splash of bold orange amid a rainbow of other colors She followed the criteria below but she likes to elaborate and make hers even more original! She'll be making more revisions - maybe another stanza! Shaking with stage fright when the telephone rings. Pale purple like a violet hiding under a leaf Teasing my friends, and enjoying the spotlight. ![]() Our own interpretation of our feelings about colors, a long with our self knowledge can be a good combination to start a “two-tone” poem. Some colors are “warm” while others are “cool.” Some colors attract attention others blend in with their surroundings. Whereas atmosphere is an emotional quality in creative writing, tone applies to non-emotional qualities like “formal” or “informal,” and it relates to both creative writing and essays.Psychologists tell us that certain colors trigger certain feelings or moods in many people. Tone means roughly the same thing as “atmosphere,” but it has a more broad meaning. In the Shire, the atmosphere is very cozy and comfortable in Rivendell, it’s an atmosphere of elegance and nobility in the Mines of Moria the atmosphere is grim and forbidding and so on. The Fellowship of the Ring is noteworthy for the way its atmosphere changes dramatically as the characters move from place to place. All you have to do is look at a few images of Miyazaki’s animation and you’ll get a sense of his atmosphere. Miyazaki’s films, including Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away have a unique atmosphere that combines awe (huge trees, powerful forest-spirits, epic monsters) with whimsy (childish dreams and imagination). The films of Hayao Miyazaki are famous more for their atmosphere than their characters or stories. Examples of Atmosphere in Pop Culture Example 1 Notice how Poe uses a string of carefully-chosen words, especially adjectives and adverbs, to create a heavy, forbidding atmosphere for his story. Here’s a highly atmospheric line, the opening of Poe’s famous Usher short story. “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.” (Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher) Even without knowing anything at all about these stories, you know exactly what kind of atmosphere they’ll have. Just by reading the titles of his novels and short stories, you can tell exactly what kind of atmosphere he was trying to create: At the Mountains of Madness, The Crawling Chaos, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness. HP Lovecraft was one of the most atmospheric writers of all time. ![]() Examples of Atmosphere in Literature Example 1 Horror, for example, is an extremely atmosphere-dependent genre: what would a horror story be without its atmosphere of creepiness and terror? To write a good horror story, you’ve got to be good at writing with atmosphere. Are they going to feel hopeful? Depressed? Anxious? Curious? Adventurous? You set the mood through atmosphere, and it colors how the audience experiences the whole piece.Ĭertain genres are especially dependent on atmosphere. And if there was anything more oppressive than the heat, it had to be the constant din that bubbled up from the city street below like steam from a putrid stew.Ītmosphere basically determines the emotional experience that the reader will have. Marilyn’s cramped apartment was roasting in the scorching sunlight that burned through her floor-to-ceiling windows. Outside, the sounds of a balmy summer day floated up to her ears like the gurgle of a cool, clear brook. Marilyn’s small apartment was bathed with light from the new floor-to-ceiling windows. Notice how they both end with similes describing the same sound in opposite ways: Example 1 These two examples describe the same scene, but they create a very different atmosphere. Atmosphere mainly emerges through description rather than action – it’s not what people do that creates an atmosphere, but the settings and environments that stage what they do. It’s very difficult to define, but you know an atmosphere when you read it. It’s usually something readers can’t quite put their finger on – not a motif or a theme, but a “feel” that readers get as they read. Atmosphere is the overall mood of a story or poem.
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