These two authors share qualities in their writing, but they were extremely different people. Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne show similarities and differences in their lives, writing techniques, and themes. Edgar Allen Poe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s approach on life differed extremely. Poe was a depressed, chronic alcoholic who had experienced a great amount of loss; he felt that man was ultimately doomed because of itself. Poe’s famous poem, “The Raven,” is about a man’s descent into madness.
My Poe Edgar Allen Poe is thought of as one of the greatest writers in American history. He had his own style which did not humor the reader or even leave them with a feeling of happiness. Poe's use of imagery, symbolism, and tone is prevalent in such works as "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The Raven." Many of Poe's works contain scenes of the supernatural and generally the characters are inflicted with terror, whether it be grotesque or arabesque. Much of Poe's inspiration can be directed to his strange and difficult life.
The Routed Influence Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Edgar Allan Poe, considered by many a literary genius who’s crafted poetic tragedies, of horrific tales, consumed with death, suffering and horror, are only humbled by the experiences and misfortune that Poe has lived through from an early age. His life, full of depression, angst, and sorrow, caused by the death of those closest to him, which fell victim to deadly plagues and diseases. To cope, Edgar sought comfort only to the bottom of a bottle, which some claim only further influenced his writings as it deepened his sorrow. Over the course of his life, he wrote hundreds of short stories and poems of which, his writing style was so unique, that without coincidence was influenced
He uses the phrase "What a world of merriment their melody foretells"(line 3) to exemplify the happiness and joy fullness of the bells. These bells are bright and soft, almost comforting. Poe also refers to heaven in the line "All the heavens, seem to twinkle"(line 7) to exaggerate the beauty and joy brought by these bells as he compares their noise to the twinkling of heaven. Poe also uses onomatopoeia in this section to help the readers actually hear the bells he is illustrating. He says "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle"(line 4) to describe the delicate noise they make when they ring.
Basically talking about his lost love, self-torture and about being consumed by his past. To me I think writing was Poe’s way of coping with his wife death ,because it provided him with his own insane characters with similar pain for him to deal with, as opposed to detraction from his own pain so that he could come with these much the same with his on life. The poem setting seems like it’s midnight in a dark room where the protagonist wife has past away and he is in a terrible sate of grief and misery and all he wants is to bring her back, but he can’t, and he knows this. Then with doubt and fear he locks himself up inside this dark room, filled with darkness and hopelessness in the middle of the night and while he’s alone by himself, he hears the raven who I thinks is his subconscious also death. He wants the raven to deliver Lenore to him or show him to her, but the raven only mocks him seems like and shows’ him how no one waits for you after death, you are all by yourself.
Prior to this her life was shown as dark and deathly through the personification of the “mystic shape” that moves behind her. Love is shown as a saviour and a brilliant force that can transcend and give life to her darkest days. Barrett Browning’s sonnets were set in the wake of the Romantics, making the tone of the poems gloomy and filled with sorrow as well as the feelings of the force and intensity of
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
William Shakespeare is a renounced poet and playwright; he is most famous for his creative linguistic devices and his ability to incorporate many significant and relevant themes into his writing. Romeo and Juliet, being one of Shakespeare’s most credited plays, utilizes the themes of love, hatred, conflict and anger. Shakespeare successfully portrays all these themes through strong emotions. Similarly Robert Browning conveys strong feeling such as hatred, betrayal and love which becomes overt. Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with.
Comparison and Contrast of Two Dark Romanticists Although Contemporary American poetry is nowadays respected for having accumulated an archive of transcendental poems written by internationally acclaimed authors, it wasn't until the appearance of poets such as Poe and Melville, that the western world halted in their mockery of infant America's writing. Both Poe and Melville were Romanticists who incorporate many dark elements into their works and had thus come to be known as Dark Romanticists. Although the two authors share many common themes and elements that constitute Dark Romanticism such as death and irony, their rhetorical styles differ greatly in mood, diction, and setting. First of all, the underlying elements shown throughout both Poe's The Raven and Melville's Shiloh: A Requiem are undoubtedly death and irony. For instance, “Is there – is there balm in Gilead?
The Devil and Tom Walker Gothic literature was and still is a very common form of literature in which the point of writing is to make people scared or to question their beliefs. It started around the Puritan times and was directly opposed to their views, so it was aimed at them to make them question their beliefs. Gothic literature is usually extremely dark and gloomy with more than a little death and decay throughout the story. It also almost always has some form of supernatural being or event. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a perfect example of gothic literature because it has all of the characteristic features of it.