One way in which she does this is by using specific language to give the poem a sense of loneliness and separation, for example when she writes: ‘in a lonesome place’ and ‘corridors’. She illustrates to the readers that the mind can produce images that are much more terrifying than realistic experiences. Your ‘brain’ is more likely to haunt you than a ‘ghost’. Another way she compliments the poem with language is her use of horror language: ‘haunted’, ‘assassin’. These are both threatening words, which can imply that the brain can imagine things that are much scarier than reality.
The selection of the verb ‘feel’ highlights the sense of loss; in this context the idea of feeling is essentially intangible and serves to emphasis the loneliness and perhaps, haunting effect, felt by the author. The verb ‘sleeping’ makes the idea of death seem natural, thus that the death was too due to natural causes and perhaps expected. The use of enjambment emphasises the idea of time passing. But it also provides a sense of haunting as the author feels
Many people were taken in by this nineteenth-century writer’s harsh outlook on life in his work. One is capable of only imagining the things that Edgar Allan Poe has, throughout his deeply saddening and depressing time here on earth, brought to life in his writing by simply printing in words different sections and scenarios of his ambiguous life. Edgar A. Poe lived a very somber orphan life which later became the foundation to the origin of his gothic nature and writing. Poe is recognized as a genius who reinvented the gothic tale of mystery and horror for his time (Introduction 1). Poe placed the reader inside the tortured minds and lives of people confronting the supernatural.
As well as using metaphor, free verse, transferred empathy, refrain and litotes, the lyricists have used imagery to create a mental image of darkness and grief. The poets have created a dream like surreal image, by using language which shows sadness and depression. The preposition “In” immediately creates an image of confinement and an enclosed area. The adjectives “white” and “black” is a metaphor of the differences the man and women have, it also creates a mood of darkness and light, sad and happy, which are the changes this man has been put through. These claims are backed up by the noun “curtains” which suggests privacy and seclusion, this could imply that this couple enjoyed being secluded or isolated from the outside world.
Tiffany Aragon Pd. 2 11/9/09 Reaction paper “To Helen and “Helen” In the poems “To Helen” and “Helen” the author has two completely opposite views of the character Helen. In the first poem “To Helen” the speakers’ view towards Helen are admiration and obsession. However in the second poem “Helen” it’s the opposite and the view towards Helen are hate and disgrace. In the poem “To Helen” the author used beauty as a form of diction to show his fascination towards the character.
The narrator gradually gets the feel that the mansion is somehow haunted by ill-willed spirits and that staying any longer in the house would not end well. In the end, everybody dies of sudden disease. This shows us how much Edgar liked to put supernatural and psychological elements in his writings. Another chilling and famous poem by Edgar would be The Red Masque of Death, which also entails many psychological factors in the poem, and a theme of the poem is also death. Both stories have similar death-related themes, analogous settings, and of course, identical endings.
In this essay I am going to compare and contrast how certain characters are portrayed in the novels Dracula (1897), The Turn of the Screw’(1898) and the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on physical descriptions, events, linguistic techniques and the significance of symbols whilst also taking into account the historical context of the Victorian period. Looking at my selected poems of Edgar Allan Poe’s work the women, although all adored by the narrators, are portrayed as physically weak as many die from a ‘cold’. This is apparent in ‘Annabel Lee’ where Poe writes ‘That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee’. This concept that Annabel Lee died from the mere coolness of the wind seems hyperbolic, which puts emphasis on the fact that women were regarded as incredibly frail. There are no adjectives used to describe the wind as tempest-like or extraordinary, reinforcing the fragility of women.
in Flower). Through the writings of Poe it can be seen that the author is truly self-absorbed in his woes and troubles. He is also sensitive to the darker side of the world around him. There are obvious parallels that can be noted in the book and film career of Hitchcock and the writings of Poe, which includes vivid emotions that are displayed throughout both author’s works that range from fear to shear madness. Even though both of the authors are notorious for their “horror” style of writing that emphasizes death, their expressions of guilt, murder and life in general these emotions are portrayed very differently within their works.
The poem "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde presents contrasting images of the nature of love and lust. The narrator appears both disgusted and fascinated with what he sees in the window of the harlot. A song representing true love plays in the harlot's house while skeleton-like creatures of lust dance with "the dead." This tune eventually "turns false." The women, described as ghostly and slim, wire-pulled and lifeless, serve as the physical manifestation of the decay of true love and the focus on lust.
Gothic music fans find some change from happiness to horror in all things to which Gothic musicians sing about. "Everything is cold now" for the dream had to end" reoccurring sentiments of Gothic music (Seventeen Seconds). For Gothic literature and music, word choice changes all beauties to beasts. Diction is an irreplaceable tool in Gothic literature. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's eerie diction turns an otherwise normal elements of life into bizarre events; a transition which Gothic musicians frequently use.