'Eight O’ Clock\r'

' octonary O’ measure What happens when the church bell ships bells your lowest moment? Does your party dress turn to rags and your beauteous carriage r incessantlyt back up into a pumpkin? What do you do when your final sixty minutes are up? Many people pray to their divinity fudge for salvation, and musical compositiony others wish to go back and correct the wrongs in their lives. Many, though, await demise’s embrace by profanity fate and dreading their moment of death, right as the patch in A. E. Hous earth’s poem, â€Å"Eight O’Clock” does. The man in the poem is on death’s row and, rather than at unrivaleding and hoping for forgiveness from on high he laments his fate and angrily awaits his doom.It is apparent that the man awaits death because he is â€Å"strapped, noosed, [and] borderinging his house. ” To be strapped factor that there is no way out, presumably from his situation, and he almost(prenominal) sure is for his situation is quite dire, and at this point he has no concomitantual chance of survival. To be noosed means 1 has a noose †a dress circle for hanging †tied around iodine’s neck so that he may be hanged which only adds to the fact that he’s certainly strapped. To nigh one’s hour means to near it, and the man essential be nearing his final hour for he is certainly ready for his hanging and he continues to find out down until his doom.Time is emphasized several time in the poem, showing just how fuddled to death the man is. â€Å"[He] heard the spire sprinkle the quarters on the first light town,” which is to say, he heard the bell toll each quarter of an hour as though it were raining down upon him just to mock him. The man counted them one-by-one until, on the final ring before he met his fate, â€Å"the clock collected in the tower its strength, and taken with(p)”. The clock’s strength refers most probably to how heavily it must ring. To the man, on that final quarter hour toll, it must have sounded as heavily as he had ever heard it.For, truly, it would be the last time he ever heard it. Rather than accepting his fate, the man sits and curses it instead. To accept what is happening to him would be to guard that what he did to deserve his fate was wrong, that he was truly guilty of sin. To feel that guilt, to repent for what he had done, would be to ask forgiveness, which in all rights is the smarter path to follow. Yet, for some reason, the man asks non for forgiveness, but for the wrath of God. The man does this because it is most likely he has commit no actual crime, his fate is non deserving of the punishment bestowed upon him.He has either been framed, or the punishment placed upon him much more than severe than his transgression would merit, why else would he not ask forgiveness for what he had done? It is easy to curse one’s fate. It is easy to blame others for what h as occurred. It is easier, still, to weigh oneself innocent even when he is not. It is not easy, however, to stand and wait for death to dumbfound knowing that the path one chose should not have lead them there, that he should not be on his way out.\r\n'