Spellbound

Fitri Andriyani

6^th Semester

Literary Research Methodology

Spellbound 

by Emily Bronte

            In my opinion, spellbound is an admiration about something that awesome or amaze. But, in this poetry, spellbound has different meaning. From the first stanza, “night is darkening around me”, night is a symbol of the darkness, loneliness and something which is bad, it is represent the problem that come to me. “the wild winds coldly blow” and the problem make me worried. “a tyrant spell has bound me”, the problem make me spell, but spell here is not to spell about something that good thing, but it is something that bad, and it makes me so bound and block me, so “I cannot go, cannot go” I can’t avoid and I can’t go from this problem.

            The second stanza, “the giant trees are bending”, it means that the problem is bigger in front of me. “their bare boughs weighed with snow” the problem is much more difficult than before and makes me so confuse. “the storm is fast descending” the big problem quickly come to me, and make me “and yet I cannot go” not yet to go from this problem.

            And the last stanza, “clouds beyond clouds above me” so many problem and problem come to me, “wastes beyond wastes below” the problem to be the worst. “but nothing drear can move” I can’t do anything and can’t to find the solution from this problem. “I will not, cannot go” and I won’t to go, I can’t to run from this problem.