Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss Absence
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Abandonment
- Absence as disguise
- Absence as loss
- Absence of sound
- Aloneness
- Attempt to find substitute
- Blame
- Burning a town
- Capture as loss
- Deracination
- Disappearance
- Kinlessness
- Livestock
- Losing vs never having
- Loss of animal companion
- Loss of innocence
- Loss of object
- Material
- Men
- Military defeat
- Missing
- Money|Wealth
- Of loved one
- Over time
- Racial
- Red necks
- Renewal
- Separation
- Substitute
- Vanishing Indian
- War
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Corn
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Brass
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Death›Burial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Place›Vacant house
Actions: Perceptual›Surveillance
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Morals›Chivalry
Actions: Perceptual›Seeing | Physical›Burial
Cultural Issues: Gender
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Naming | Objects›Photograph | Values›Love
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Figures of Speech›Seed | Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Place›Plantation | Time of Year›Summer
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Domestic Space›Stairway
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Shadow | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Domestic Space›Kitchen
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Body›Blood | Objects›Mirror | Recurring Tropes›Echo | Recurring Tropes›Sound of a gunshot
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Negation | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Devastation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Restoration / rebuilding | Supernatural›Haunted house | Supernatural›Soul / Spirit | Time›Running out | Values›Determination
Relationships: Familial
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting
Cultural Issues: Race›Hierarchical | Slavery›Curse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Meaning›Limitations of words / language
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Environment: Atmospheric›Thunder | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Gate | Domestic Space›Plantation house | Time of Day›Afternoon
Actions: Movement›Carriage | Perceptual›Eavesdropping
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Fever | Religion›Sabbath | Slavery›Domestic labor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Memory | Psychological›Terror | Recurring Tropes›Paradox | Recurring Tropes›Threshold | Recurring Tropes›Triumph | Supernatural›Place
Relationships: Familial
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Breath
Actions: Mental›Speculation | Verbal›Rumor
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Money›Gold
Actions: Communication›Letter | Communication›Messenger | Emotional›Longing
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Romantic›Courtship
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Father-son
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Mental›Uncertainty | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Return
Aesthetics: Narrative›Conjectural narration | Typography/Orthography›Italics
Actions: Emotional›Vindictive | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Values›Propriety
Relationships: Familial
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Environment: Time of Year›New Year
Actions: Interaction, Social›Ball/dance | Interaction, Social›Visiting
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Aunt-nephew
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Death›Deathbed
Relationships: Familial›Dissolution
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Butterfly
Environment: Time of Day›Morning | Time of Year›Christmas
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Letter
Relationships: Familial›Brother-sister
Actions: Emotional›Detachment | Mental›Discovery | Verbal›Storytelling | Violent›Murder
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Miscegenation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Environment: Time of Year›Christmas
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Solitary
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Shoes | Health and Illness›Deaf
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses | Objects›Cigar | Objects›Pipe | Recurring Tropes›Door
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Bodily›Eating breakfast
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Auditory›Dog barking | Time of Day›Twilight | Weather›Frost
Actions: Hunting›Fox hunting | Movement›Horse
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Diction›Rural vernacular
Actions: Bodily›Panting | Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›Simile
Actions: Mental›Remembering
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Objects›Metal detector
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Italics
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Cultural Issues: Class›White trash | Prejudice›White supremacy
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Actions: Moral›Grave-digging or -violating
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother | Familial›Father-son
Actions: Communication›Telephone | Movement›Truck
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Town Square
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Recurring Tropes›Confederate monument
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Relationships: Marital›Husband-wife
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Narrative›Theatrical effect
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Leaving home
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Appearance›Cosmetics | Futility›Nothing to do
Cultural Issues: Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Domestic Space›Ladies parlor | Place›Hotel
Actions: Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Place›Spring | Time of Day›Afternoon
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Hardwick, Tennessee | Narrative›Parentheses
Environment: Domestic Space›Office
Actions: Moral›Secret | Verbal›Conversation
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Atmospheric›Crowded | Time of Day›Daytime
Cultural Issues: Entertainment›Horse race | Race›Solidarity | Race›Stereotype cannibalism
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Animals›Horses
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Public›Town Square
Cultural Issues: Education›Graduation | Entertainment›Movies
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Character›Resolve | Recurring Tropes›Going fast
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Environment: Domestic Space›Cellar
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence
Environment: Time of Day›Morning
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Futility
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence | Arrivals/Departures›Departing Yoknapatawpha | Death›Future | Death›Response to | Recurring Tropes›Sexual power
Aesthetics: Narrative›Temporal projection