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Edgar Allen Poe, also known as Poe, was an inspiration to authors and the genre of horror. Poe was an author of several widely known stories and poems. Some of those being "Annabel Lee", " The Raven" , and "The Tell-Tale Heart". In Annabel Lee, we read about a narrator that had a strong love with Annabel Lee, but she dies, and it has a great effect on the narrator. " The Raven" is a poem about a Raven that flies in the chamber of the grieving narrator and tells him revelations. Poe uses imagery, tone, and point of view in order to illustrate passion. Poe differentiated from other authors by his style. One of the styles that he uses is imagery. Imagery is used to describe the setting, environment, and emotions of the narrators towards something. …show more content…

Poe uses tone to show the mood and atmosphere in the story. For example, when the narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” starts and talks with passion, he creates an obsessive and anxious tone. As found in “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator stated “TRUE!- nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (Poe 1). This quote shows that uses tone to show passion because based on what the narrator said he shows that he is alarmed, making the tone anxious and nerve wrecking. Poe also wrote “neither the angles in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea can ever dissever my soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee” (“Annabel Lee” stanza 5). The author uses tone to show passion in the story, such as in “Annabel Lee” the narrator here was passionate about Annabel Lee his passionate love for her is shown through Poe’s writing in tone. Poe illustrates tone by the narrators emotions and …show more content…

Point of view is the perspective in which the story is told. Point of view illustrates passion by showing what the narrators have done and what they feel. For example, in “The Raven” we see that the narrator has a deep depression because he lost the person he was passionate for. The text stated “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my bride - my darling-my life and my bride” ( Poe “Annabel Lee” 2. Point of view illustrates passion in the poem because the narrator shows a passion of love to his bride even through she is now dead. He shows this to us by his narrators, which most have a passion for someone. Point of view allows us to know and read what the narrators think and says. Poe also wrote “ In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him, I then smiled gaily to find the deed so far done” (“The Tell Tale Heart” 11). Point of view is used to show passion because we see the narrator smiles because the hatred that the narrator had toward the old man is gone since he is now dead. Unreliable narrators are also used in his stories, so we can see only the surface of the narrators' emotion, meaning that the narrator has more feeling pent-up and the passion that they had was only a portion of what they actually showed to

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Throughout literature, an author's works always reflects their mood and character. Edgar Allen Poe is an American writer who's poem and short stories reflected on his ominous mood. In the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe is about a raven that flies into a lonely and sad man's house, he is alone and weak, he is weary of trying to distract himself from his sorrow. It expresses Poe's sense of melancholy and gloominess. The speaker's tone changes throughout the poem dramatically changes as he realizes the true meaning of meeting with the Raven.

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