Author’s Note: When reading of Hyde’s transformation, it reminded me of werewolves for some reason. By day, werewolves are known to be normal people walking around, but then change into an evil creature, as Jekyll does when turning into Hyde. I tried to incorporate the author’s theme of darkness vs. light, heaven vs. hell, his fog theme, and symbolism through colors. After picking out these words from the passage, I tried including most of them in my poem:
Blood red, White, Lightness, Darkness, Midnight, Insanity, Lock, Door, Cerebral disease, Crystalline, Abnormal, misbegotten, creature, curiosity , origin, deeper in the, nature of man, principle of hatred, Disgustful curiosity , personal distaste, somber, excitement, throat, heart, audibly, metamorphoses, keen eye, fumes, vapour, mortal, disease, injected eyes, a cry, terror, night and day, start of horror, confession
Locked in the mystery of disgustful curiosity
Waiting and watching the peculiar pale man
Lightness shadowing his misbegotten face
I develop a personal distaste for him
Clouds unveiling the final remains of the full moon
Midnight strikes the night with a stillness
Out of curiosity of the deeper nature of man,
I blend with the darkness, watching the transformation
A sombre of excitement shocks the abnormal gentleman
A start of terror in the fog of the night
With a cry and an audible snap, he hunched in pain
Creature emerging, overpowered by moral disease
A werewolf in place of the man
A metamorphoses right before my eyes
Was I overtaken by cerebral disease
Or simply involved in the confession of duality?
Blood red flooding the creature’s eyes
A deep principle of hatred mixed with insanity
An ear-splitting howl breaking the innocence of the darkness
A man by day, a Satan’s creature by night
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