d gothic tone. Therefore Poe is known as one of the greatest Gothicism artist of his time (Keller, 1901). Poe's stories intertwine the morbid visions of his reality with his personal experiences of his traumas; thus, giving an alluded mystery to the reader. Although one is not sorry to have read these tales; one has no desire to read them twice. His writings are strange and powerful more than pleading and he creates these powerful productions without rising to the of genius. Poe is an author who is at times strong-headed, but which epithet by no means excludes the possibility of being wrong-headed at times too. It seems in his writing that there is no "passion" nor any attempt at dramatic dialogue, and he seems, instead, to be bent towards reasoning that sentiment (Blackwood's, 495). According to Charles Baudelaire, as a short storyteller Poe is unique in his chosen field (496).
             The morbidity and darkness of his writings was used to undercut the easy optimism and certainty characteristic popular to his time (Heller, 1899). Moralists continually wonder hopelessly why Poe's "morbid" tales need be written or read at all? The answer is not simple. According to D.H. Lawrence, the reasons Poe's morbid tales need be written is because old things need to die and disintegrate, because the old white psyche needs to be gradually broken down before anything else can come to pass. In other words man must be stripped even of himself ,and it is a painful, almost ghastly process to experience. Poe is absolutely concerned with the disintegration processes of his psyche. While most American art-activity is dual in the sense that the 'true art is formed from the double rhythm of creating and destroying'--(1) a disintegrating and sloughing of the old consciousness leads to (2) the forming of the new consciousness, Poe seems to have only one of the two vibrations--the disintegration vibration. This makes ...