El Dorado
Title: How does the idea of time appear in literature ?
Historical events deepens the understanding of the reader, and goes back in time to allow the characters to gain experience that influence the present. This means that the bigger and profound sense of the historic past is interesting versus getting away from the present and the tension and pressure. Similarly in “El Dorado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the “knight” is on a journey and experiences a time shift from present into the future, and gets closer to death. This shows how the setting of some stories has a stimulating force in human behavior. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “El Dorado” identifies the speaker’s quest to death. The “knight” is a man, in which is searching for a place called ‘El Dorado’. As months, then years passes by, the knight grows older and gains maturity, and still does not manage to locate this place. As he continued on with his journey, his strength gets worse, and realized that he wasn’t going no where and became depressed and was in despair, which is mentioned in Line 9, “And –o’er his heart a shadow”. In Line 19-21 it states “Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow”, means that the knight didn’t make it. Edgar Allan Poe makes time run out on the man, which led the knight to give up and die. He also wants his readers to know that time doesn’t wait on nobody. In “El Dorado,” there are many literary mechanism which allows the readers to imaginately move through time. Edgar Allan Poe focuses on ideas such as diction, imagery, tone, symbolism and theme. The theme of this poem is the pathway to death. The author uses a formal diction to create a sad and depressed tone. The formal words are “sunshine” and “shadows”. The denotation of sunshine is the light of the sun. Shadow is denoted as a shade cast upon a surface by something blocking light. Sunshine is connoted with knowledge, happiness, and Heaven. However, the connotation of shadow is death, darkness, and
Historical events deepens the understanding of the reader, and goes back in time to allow the characters to gain experience that influence the present. This means that the bigger and profound sense of the historic past is interesting versus getting away from the present and the tension and pressure. Similarly in “El Dorado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the “knight” is on a journey and experiences a time shift from present into the future, and gets closer to death. This shows how the setting of some stories has a stimulating force in human behavior. Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “El Dorado” identifies the speaker’s quest to death. The “knight” is a man, in which is searching for a place called ‘El Dorado’. As months, then years passes by, the knight grows older and gains maturity, and still does not manage to locate this place. As he continued on with his journey, his strength gets worse, and realized that he wasn’t going no where and became depressed and was in despair, which is mentioned in Line 9, “And –o’er his heart a shadow”. In Line 19-21 it states “Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow”, means that the knight didn’t make it. Edgar Allan Poe makes time run out on the man, which led the knight to give up and die. He also wants his readers to know that time doesn’t wait on nobody. In “El Dorado,” there are many literary mechanism which allows the readers to imaginately move through time. Edgar Allan Poe focuses on ideas such as diction, imagery, tone, symbolism and theme. The theme of this poem is the pathway to death. The author uses a formal diction to create a sad and depressed tone. The formal words are “sunshine” and “shadows”. The denotation of sunshine is the light of the sun. Shadow is denoted as a shade cast upon a surface by something blocking light. Sunshine is connoted with knowledge, happiness, and Heaven. However, the connotation of shadow is death, darkness, and