In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, ‘The Bells’, he repeats the word ‘bells’ over and over again. Why does he do this? Does the repetition have a clear purpose, or was it perhaps a whim? In as early as the first stanza, we can see the repetition of the word ‘bells’. My best guess is that the repetition is meant to draw attention to the word. Yet, if you look at the phrases around it, you’ll see a positive meaning behind them. “What a world of merriment their melody foretells!” The tone makes the bells seem like a good thing. It indicates that the bells foreshadow good things to come. Another example, “To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells…”, has a positive connotation because the word tintinnabulation is defined as a ‘ringing or tinkling