Poe, who is often known for using challenging and varying sentence structure, uses elements of syntax such as polysyndeton and parallel structure to create a dark and ominous mood. Poe uses syntax in the first paragraph when he starts several sentences with “But in the…” and then names a specific room. This is effective because he describes each room with different features, but each feature has an equally discomforting feeling accompanying it. He uses polysyndeton in the second paragraph when he described the sound the clock made; he wrote, “...there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and exceedingly musical.” The combination of the different qualities of the sound are important because not only does it mirror the complex reaction the characters have to it, but it illustrates the significance of the clock.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” and “Click Clack The Rattlebag” by Neil Gaiman demonstrate a creepy and tense mood. “The Tell Tale Heart” follows a mad man who commits murder and tries to explain it away throughout the passage. “Click Clack The Rattlebag” is about a teen that is watching a child and discusses a spooky story while the teen unknowingly leads to his demise.
The story begins with the narrator admitting that he is a "very dreadfully nervous" type. This type is found throughout all of Poe 's fiction, particularly in the over-wrought, hyper-sensitive Roderick Usher in "The Fall of the House of Usher. " As with Usher, the narrator here believes that his nervousness has "sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them." Thus, he begins by stating that he is not mad, yet he will continue his story and will reveal not only that he is mad, but that he is terribly mad. His sensitivities allow him to hear and sense things in heaven, hell, and on earth that other people are not even aware of.
In the poems, The Raven and the Incident in the Rose Garden, there were a lot of different key elements that made up the poem. Some of the elements were similar, and some of the elements were different. Both poems used tools to enhance the writing. In this essay, there will be a comparison between mood/tone and literary/poetic devices.
Morgan Lainge Ms. Mynatt English 2 Honors 27 January 2023 Analytical Allusions Through many of Poe’s works, he has shown and emphasized the importance of mythical figures. He has shown this by making the female characters captivating like goddesses, and comparable to angels, especially in his poems. Poe uses Roman, Greek mythology, and Biblical references to help readers understand his stories. Edgar Allen Poe’s works such as “To Helen”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Raven” all use mythical figures to express beauty through his characters, to describe horror through his allusions, and to create suspense through his stories and poems. Continuously throughout Poe’s works, such as “To Helen,” he writes about mythical figures to illustrate
Poe sympathizes with the woe of losing one’s dream, therefore this poem is a candid representation of a person’s fleeting affliction. The first stanza crafts a heavenly scenario portraying a “green isle in the sea” with “fruits and flowers”. At the end of the verse the speaker claims the flowers are all his. This suggests the narrator is confident and holds authority over this utopian expanse. The next stanza introduces a darkening element.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By, Edgar Allan Poe is about a man named Icabod Crane who wants to win over a girl named Katrina Van Tassal. Icabod decides to come to Sleepy Hollow to try and get Katrina to be his wife. People are not a big fan of Icabod because he is sneaky and especially because he is a Yankee. Sleepy Hollow's most famous phenomenon is the headless horseman, who is said to be a Solider who lost his head from a cannon ball in the Revolutionary War. He likes to hang out by the church where people say he was buried.
Edgar Allan Poe uses description to cast certain emotions to his audience. Within his descriptions, he perfectly picks words to strike horror or lift the lowest of spirits. Through his writing, Poe has become one who will never be forgotten. He will always be remembered as one of the pivotal writers in the romantic period of writing. In his works “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Raven”, and “Tell-Tale Heart”, he strategically describes people, events, and places for his readers to feel the full effect and emotion he wants.
In “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe, there are three elements of horror that are more than worth mentioning; suspense, exploration of the violence of humanity, and anxiety/disorientation. There are many elements of horror in this story, but the suspense is everlasting in this story. The pendulum slowly swinging down “inch by inch- line by line- with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seemed ages” it just brings the reader slowly into that intense fear for such a long period driving them into that same sanity, truly at a much lower level but it shows them just enough to fear from suspense. And it isn’t the kind that lasts a short time, it is so many stages of death over a long period some think even several days. First
In “The fall of the house of Usher”, the author, Poe, uses many different methods to create an impression on how the story will go, such as using archaic words that aren’t used as often now that catch the attention of readers throughout the book and make them want to continue reading to learn more. He used many different ways of making his stories interesting and eye-catching. Using words like tarn which is on line 34 of page 475; tarn is a word that was much more commonly used in the 1800s and has quickly died down. There are many complex things about this story that make it so amazing.
“Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it's gone,” a quote from American writer Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem “The Raven.” One of the twenty short stories and over fifty poems he had written in his life, the Raven, like many other poems and stories he wrote, inspired and influence many different great works of literature such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Poe did not only inspire stories, but he was credited with inspiring the modern detective story, influencing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant inspiration for the science fiction genre. These accomplishments helped pave Poe’s legacy and turn his life into a legend.
Poe went on to assert that poetry is “concerned with indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception.” This is 4 one of the first proclamations of the belief in art for art’s sake that, through Poe’s action, would have a passionate effect on the course of nineteenth century French poetry (Ackroyd Peter,
The period of gothic writing was a transformative era of literature in the United States. Gothic literature included multiple authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, and, most famously, Edgar Allan Poe. These authors used writing style in their literature to create feeling and display themes. Poe wrote what he knew, morbidity and tragedy, as he was a troubled man and faced multiple hardships throughout his life. In some of his most famous short stories, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, he used common gothic styles such as imagery to display mood.
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) This verse I believe ties in with Poe very well. In all of Poe’s stories we read homes were broken and corrupt. Houses were used to bury the dead and where people were killed and even in one story even the house collapses.
To begin with, The Pit and the Pendulum exists on the border between consciousness and unconsciousness. After being approached by the three-judge, the narrator’s mind seems to be in a mixed state of trauma and delirium. The narrator is helpless and weak after being sentenced to death. He is then thrown into a dungeon and is not saving himself from death, but he is “swooning” or going in and out of consciousness. “I had swooned; but still will not say that all of consciousness was lost.
