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poems, “The Raven” and “The Bells”, Poe writes of death, darkness, and evil. Many say
he writes about this because of his childhood problems. (Slovey p. 15) As you continue to
read, it will show how others feel about his writings and his desire to write about death.
In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, The Bells, Poe tells how bells can play a part throughout
death and this causes readers to dislike the poem but it also has a positive effect on
readers when Poe tells of bells being used as symbols of love. For example, some feel that
Poe’s desire for death makes the poem less interesting. W.M. Auden tells how the Bells
was less interesting but was more successful because the subject is nothing but an excuse
for onomatopoeic efforts. Also, some feel that Poe writes about death and darkness
because of his drinking problems he had. (Slovey p. 22) Anthony Caputi feels that this
poem marks the high tide of Poe’s ineffectuality and also bears testimony to his immense
gift for poetic conception and thereby confronts us with the peculiar problem of Poe.
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the reader a feeling of death.
In Edgar Allen Poe’s ,The Raven, Poe uses a sense of darkness and evil throughout
the poem by using the black bird as a symbol of evil. Halden Braddy writes: In analyzing The Raven
Poe held that the death of a beautiful women is unquestionably the most poetic topic in
the world and how a lasting impression one receives in reading his poetry is then
he championed beauty and love.
Throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s life he has written many poems concerning death and
darkness which has led his poems to success that created some of his works to be
published in many books that give readers a chance to see how Poe used death, evil, and
darkness throughout his poems. ) In conclusion to, In Poe’s poem, The Bells, he describes some of the
bells as being frightening; a sense of darkness occurs. Many feel that this has had a
positive effect but also a negative effect. “In the silence of the night How we
shiver with affright. As he grew up he had many
problems. In addition, some feel this poem has a sense of good and beauty to it. He began to write of death, evil, and darkness.
Edgar Allen Poe was a man who wrote of what he felt. Some readers cannot understand
how this poem has became so popular considering the evil that was used throughout the
poem.
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