Dark Romanticism In The Black Raven, And Herman Melville

Dark Romanticisms is exploring the inner working of the mind, shadowy approach to the fantastical while containing gloomy, evil, and sinful scenes in poems such as “Black Cat”, “Ambitious Guest”, and “Dream-Land”. Dark Romanticisms is a writing period from 1800 to 1860. Horrific themes, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and creepy symbols are elements founded in dark romanticisms. There are three writers that define dark romanticisms, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorn, and Herman Melville. These writers brought dark romanticism into the world with their gloomy, creepy, and evil poems.
The Black Cat”, written by Edgar Allen Poe on August 19, 1843. “The Black Cat” is the best title for this poem because of what it symbolizes and its
The title is totally the opposite of the poem, Poe uses the title Dream- Land to throw the reader way off. This place that Poe describes in the poem is somewhere no one want to be ever. The biggest symbol in the in "Dream-Land" is the land. The narrator describes the land's features with all kinds of dark and scary elements. This massive land is symbolizing cloudy, sinful, and shady inside of the poem. The entire poem is constantly putting visual images in the mind of the readers that are horrific. In this quote “Sheeted Memories of the Past” (Poe DL) Poe uses “sheeted memories” to represent the people of the dead or ghost. The whole poem is imagery because poe uses lots of description that were detailed of this petrifying and deadly place. Poe gives us an image in our minds by describing every feature of the land. The features of the horrify land are the main points of the evil and dark in it. "Eidolon, named Night On a black throne reigns upright" (Poe DL). When the narrator gets to the land, one of the first things he sees is a phantom sitting on this big black throne that was called night. This quote is also personification because the he is using “Night” in a human aspect. The tone of "Dream-Land" is alone, sad, scary, and the theme of the poem is Nature/Man. In that last two poems that have been analyzed are dingy, alarming, and eerie, but the “Ambitious Guest” is very different because it start off calm
The title has very real meaning to it because ambitious means a strong desire to succeed. When the strange man came to the campfire with the family, he talks about how he wants his reputation to be the best in the world. The guest has a strong desire to be the best man in the world. One symbol of the in the story was the cottage. The cottage symbolized a place of shelter, freedom, and safe. When the traveler came to the family, he felt so welcomed because of how generous the family was. The “monument” (Hawthorne) is another symbol in the story. The monument symbolizes the desire of fame and riches, but at the end of the story, it is the stone of his death. The biggest symbol in the poem was the children. The child represented the hope and future, throughout the poem every talk about death except the children. They talked about their adult lives and how they were going to change the world. “One September night a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the driftwood of mountain streams, the dry cones of the pine, and the splintered ruins of great trees that had come crashing down the precipice”. (Hawthorne) This quote is the first sentence in the poem it is introducing us to the family's campfire. The author is giving us a picture of this great big fire that the family is sitting around this could be an important thing in the story. The dramatic irony is one of the main points in the