edgar poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 during his life he was one of the most celebrated writers of dark poetry and fiction. He has a unique style of Gothicism in his narratives. Poe's works haunt the mind and thrill the body. His story lines have left chills up readers' spines for so many years, and he creates atmospheres that only a vampire would be comfortable in. The work of Edgar Allan Poe has many themes and literary devices including setting, symbolism, and importantly imagery.
Imagery is defined as the use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Imagery is a language that contains the five senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, and touching. It is the use of details and description that helps the reader create a mental picture. In all of Poe's narratives, imagery plays an enormous role in his writing. Poe creates a specific mood and theme in his narratives. He is the master of spooky imagery. Imagery in "The Masque of the Red Death" is ghastly. Poe establishes the mood and setting of the narrative with the description of the red death: "there were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and the profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution."(358)
Within the poem "The Raven" Poe uses imagery in many different forms. One example of imagery is "And the silken, sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;(370) Death is the inevitable, sad and unknown aspect of life. The purple curtain is 'death' that closes life. The thrill of death that we fear. Another narrative Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery in is "The Black Cat". He uses imagery to explain the cat, picturing the white spots. The cats' chest helps you picture "The gallows" when the narrator says: "The white patch was now the image of an awful ghostly thing! It was the GALLOWS!" Poe also uses imagery in "The Tell-Tale Heart" when he describes the old man's eye, which is the reason why the murder
Imagery is defined as the use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Imagery is a language that contains the five senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, and touching. It is the use of details and description that helps the reader create a mental picture. In all of Poe's narratives, imagery plays an enormous role in his writing. Poe creates a specific mood and theme in his narratives. He is the master of spooky imagery. Imagery in "The Masque of the Red Death" is ghastly. Poe establishes the mood and setting of the narrative with the description of the red death: "there were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and the profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution."(358)
Within the poem "The Raven" Poe uses imagery in many different forms. One example of imagery is "And the silken, sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;(370) Death is the inevitable, sad and unknown aspect of life. The purple curtain is 'death' that closes life. The thrill of death that we fear. Another narrative Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery in is "The Black Cat". He uses imagery to explain the cat, picturing the white spots. The cats' chest helps you picture "The gallows" when the narrator says: "The white patch was now the image of an awful ghostly thing! It was the GALLOWS!" Poe also uses imagery in "The Tell-Tale Heart" when he describes the old man's eye, which is the reason why the murder