Pennywise is a manifestation of the darkness in the town of Derry, as it feeds on the children’s fear. The entire story is one big metaphor for growing up, and the fears that hold you back, and follow you through life. King’s IT has remained in mainstream horror for so long, as a timeless novel, and a recent box-office goldmine, for its human themes, and horrific ideas. Naturally, the king of horror himself, Stephen King, would have to make an appearance. IT (2017), Pennywise: Childhood Fear and Trauma Here are my picks for some of the best examples of symbolic horror, in both literature and film. A true master of horror can make you interpret a concept or character as a much broader idea, and really get into your head, to spread a message. Monsters and villains can be used to represent deeper themes and really make you think. Horror is a very divisive genre, but the truth is, there is a lot to be learned by it. With a sudden surge of popularity at the box office, horror is finding its way back into pop-culture, raising questions about the content once again.

While this may be the case for some films, the horror genre is actually much deeper and meaningful than it gets credit for. Over preconceived ideas of it being “mindless violence” or “unnecessarily grotesque”. The verbs describing the spider, “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” are themselves symbols of the speaker's seeming satisfaction that he may show to the outside.Over the years, the horror genre has been given a lot of hate. The filament that the spider launched forth could be a symbol of the speaker’s attempts to find meaning in the universe, or to find someone or something to make some sort of profound connection with. The promontory’s “vacant vast surroundings” (vacant means lonely)symbolize the speaker’s feeling of loneliness and isolation from the rest of the world or his inability to connect with others. The bulk of the content of “A Noiseless Patient Spider” has some relation to symbolism, whether it is the symbol itself or an image clarifying the meaning of the symbol or the thing or idea that is being symbolized.

When the speaker describes the spider's plight, he is actually describing his own, this gives the reader a more profound sense of what the author is talking about than if Walt Whitman had just come out and tried to express his ideas in prose. The entire work is essentially one large metaphor between the spider, isolated on its barren promontory, and the speaker’s soul, isolated in the universe. There seems to be only two figures of speech in “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” metaphor and symbolism however, they are very prolonged examples that encompass the whole poem and are essential to its complete understanding. The use of figures of speech in the poem is very different than what is found in most poems.

The silent patient symbolism