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Comparing Suspense In Poe's The Pendulum And The Raven

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Edgar Allen Poe creates an atmosphere of suspense in “The Raven” and in “The Pit and Pendulum “making the reader wonder what is going to happen next by creating confusion. The typical gothic style of Poe’s writings is very dark and cold, affecting the narrator both mentally and physically. In both “The Pit and The Pendulum” and “The Raven”, both of the narrators are being tortured. In “The Raven” the narrator is being tortured mentally while in “The Pit and The Pendulum” the narrator is being tortured physically. Poe uses many gothic elements such as setting and supernatural elements making fear one of the most important unifying effects in the narratives. The gothic elements in “The Pit and The Pendulum” and “The Raven” share many of the same characteristics such as setting and macabre or violent incidents. In both of the narratives the narrators are trapped and being …show more content…

In Poe’s “The Pit and The Pendulum” he portrays many events of pain and fear making it clear to the reader that a pendulum is torturing the narrator, as the narrator mentioned, “Twice again it swung, and a sharp sense of pain shot through every nerve”. In “The Raven” the narrator is being tortured by his lost love and feels like he is being stalked by her, as the narrator mentions “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor”. In addition, both narratives are written in a dark, cold and dreary environment making the narratives more fear full and intriguing to read. In “The Pit and The Pendulum” the narrator is trapped in a chamber with iron walls. The narrator describes it as “the hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish.” The narrator is in chamber trying to get out it and the walls keep changing dimensions

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In “The Raven,” Poe uses the repetitive structure of the poem to create tension and anticipation. The poem consists of eighteen stanzas, each with the same rhyme scheme and meter. The repetition of the words “nevermore” at the end of each stanza builds a sense of dread and foreboding. By beginning more than one stanza with “‘Prophet!’ said I, ‘thing of evil!—prophet still” and ending evenmore stanzas with “Quoth the Raven ‘Nevermore’” readers feel suspense (Poe).

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Edgar Allen Poe is obviously a well-known author who know how to grab the reader’s attention with a crazy twists and tones in a matter of second. His poem “The Raven” uses negative connotative words in his writing to portray a dreary, agitated, and twisted tone. The use of those words shows how he feels throughout his own story. The words that are used also decide how the reader feel in the situation.

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The ominous poem “The Raven”, written by Edgar Allen Poe, creates suspense throughout by using a combination of different literary devices, such as hyperbole, repetition and pathos. Although the use of literary devices helps create the mood, the way Poe incorporates a variety of structural elements, which include multiple stanzas, longer sentences and the similarities of structure between the poem and a story, help create a darker mood. The poem is set during the mid nineteenth century, at what is referred to as the witching hour, also known as midnight. The setting alone creates a very dark, suspenseful mood. “The Raven” crafts the idea of suspense by using a range of different types of literary features.

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The Raven crafts the idea of suspense by using a range of different types of literary features. The use of hyperboles creates more suspense because the more exaggeration used grips the reader in more. Describing the Raven as “Ghastly, Grim and ancient” (8) makes the idea that the author is trying to get through, more coherent as Poe is offering more description. The way Poe repeats his “Sorrow for the lost Lenore” (2) helps embed the idea that he misses Lenore but it also makes the reader wonder where she went, why she left and why she is so important, which creates suspense. The way Poe uses repetition and pathos when he is trying to get an idea through is very prominent.

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Poe tries to evoke suspense in the reader's mind by using several different

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The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, a short story of the horror genre, and horror is the very thing this piece was meant to provoke. Made in 1842 and set in the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the height of which came about during the 16th century lasting until the early 1800s. In a prison set in Spain, dark and mysterious conditions shape the scene. While non-descript in minute areas, the meticulous attention to detail and the amount of devices and the story 's deeper meaning is what makes it quite an enjoyable read. The story follows our protaginist, whose name is never mentioned, as he is first sentenced to death by a panel of black-robed, pale-faced judges.

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In the end Poe’s writing represents fear and how it can distort your thoughts and make you take a turn for the worst. Or in some cases, usually more rarely, the better, as in “The Pit and the

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A Deeper Look Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his numerous literature pieces. One very world wide known poem is “The Raven”, it has been an incredibly popular choice among readers for many years and will still be studied and enjoyed for future years to come. Not only does this form of Gothic Literature capture and inspire the heart, but it makes you feel and think deeply, and urges you to open your eyes with a different perspective. In the beginning of the poem the narrator is sitting lonely and weary, and he hears a tapping at the door and discovers the sitting raven, throughout the story the narrator asks questions and the raven does not answer any of them and the narrator begins to become irritated and upset. Towards the end of the story the

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Death’s Bird “The Raven” is arguably Edgar Allan Poe’s most renowned piece of gothic literature. In “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, gothic elements are used to convey the eerie atmosphere of the poem. Death and dreaming appear which show that “The Raven” can be considered within the gothic genre. Death is showed through allusion and repetition, while dreaming is referenced throughout the text. The idea of death and life after death is a very important aspect of “The Raven’’.

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Gothic Literature in the Raven “The Raven,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, is one of the most famous pieces of Gothic Literature ever created. Throughout the poem you can recognize many elements of gothic literature. One of them is the high levels of emotion the main character feels, be it sorrow or fear. Supernatural occurrences are frequent in the poem as well, one of which involves a talking bird. The mysteriousness of the poem also helps display the gothic feeling and sets the mood for the poem as being sad and gloomy.

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The story is dedicated to a loss one of Poe. In “Poe Museum,”(2017) it says “Most famously, poe completely transformed the genre of the horror story with his masterful tales of psychological depth and insight not envisioned in the genre before his time and scarcely seen it since.” In Poe’s story “The Raven,” he gets in the reader’s head with his recurring themes and his way of portraying the sense of fear with his poetic lyrics. The mood he creates with his setting makes it seem very down because the story takes place in a dark room where the raven flies in through a window.

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Dark Romanticism evolves from works of the Romantic Period (1798-1870) with characteristics of horror fiction and death. It is taken as a reaction of the Transcendental Movement, which originated abreast the Romantic Period from 1830 to 1860. Known writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne found that the ideas displayed in the Transcendental works were idealistic and rose-colored, as a result, they opt to alter these works adding their own element hence this was the birth of the subgenre. To explore more about this subgenre we have three Americans mentioned above that are considered as major Dark Romantics authors. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809.

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