Darkness
Latimer narrates, “For I foresee when I shall die, and everything that will happen in my last moments…Darkness—darkness—no pain—nothing but darkness: but I am passing on and on through the darkness: my thought stays in the darkness, but always with a sense of moving onward." Latimer anticipates that his last moments alive will be marred by the darkness. The darkness implies that his last moments would be analogous to the closing moments of an ending day. With the darkness, he will not perceive the happenings in his life.
Curtain
Latimer recounts, “My childhood perhaps seems happier to me than it really was, by contrast with all the after-years. For then the curtain of the future was as impenetrable to me as to other children: I had all their delight in the present hour, their sweet indefinite hopes for the morrow; and I had a tender mother: even now, after the dreary lapse of long years.” The curtain is allegorical of the unknown details regarding Latimer’s future. Latimer would not precisely forecast how his adulthood would be due to the uncertainty which is attributed to the curtain.
