A Deeper Darkness - Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the most influential short story authors of mystery, suspense, and the supernatural. His usage of literary techniques compels his reader to finish his tales at one sitting. It is believed that Poe's usage of first-person narrative in his short stories enhances an underlying emphasis on the mysteries of the self, of others, of nature, ad of the universe through the narrator's observations. Much of Poe's works were used to undercut the easy optimism and certainty characteristic popular to his time because of his usage of the darker aspect of life and living. His works carry within them multiple senses of depths. Not merely representing the physical, his tales also have metaphorical depths of mystery, of uncertainty, of the Unknown. In most of Poe's writings his sense of style and influential views are present through the uniqueness of his works. Regarded as the architect of the modern horror tales, Poe was also the principle forerunner of the "art for art's sake" movement in nineteenth-century European literature ("Poe Intro.", 2749). He is also credited with parenting two other popular genres: science fiction and the detective story (Keller, 1898). He demonstrates a b
rilliant command of language and technique as well as an inspired and original imagination ("Poe Intro. His narrators' descents into maelstroms, pits, tombs, and vaults describes an inborn tendency of the human mind to recognize coming destruction of the world in the "grating or vertical movements" of the galaxies. His writings are strange and powerful more than pleading and he creates these powerful productions without rising to the of genius. " Poe writes this story in his usually first-person, from the perspective of the murderer of the old man. One can perceive the characters of Poe through the man with relaxed nerves and the man whose patient and ardent will hurls defiance at difficulties, he whose gaze is "fixed as straight as a sword" on objects which increase in importance under his gaze with hurl defiance at difficulties, he whose gaze is fixed as straight as a sword--this man is Poe. His usage of narrators in short stories is a device to punctuate and reaffirm that everything can be defined by a naturalistic way or to arrive at an acceptable explanation or listener that will confirm his view of events (Heller, 1900). As a common of Poe's work is that out of conflict comes controlled energy and excitement that are distinguishing marks of his art. His pessimist outlook of life lies within the symbols of darkness and gothic tone. And then through the narrator, Poe describes the eye as being pale blue with a film over it, and resembling that of a vulture (Poe, 277-278). Poe constructed this story in such a way that the events of the tale remain somewhat ambiguous. However, according to Charles Baudelaire there are 3 main conceptual aspects of Poe, or rather characters in Poe.
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