Final Research paper- Edgar Allen Poe
Final Research Paper The books of Edgar Allen Poe can spark many thoughts in a reader’s mind. Specifically, Edgar Allan Poe uses imagery in his short stories “Ligeia” and “Tell Tale Heart” to depict the narrator’s obsession with eyes. This infatuation with eyes roots from the narrator's insanity and his obsessive personality. The eyes are significant to the stories because they are used to give the audience a deeper understanding of the narrator himself. The eyes are thought to be “the window to the soul”. This statement explains how Poe could have wanted to express what he saw in the other characters by describing their eyes. Poe is able to express this obsession to eyes more predominant in the plot and uses it to help the reader better picture the narrator.
Poe uses imagery to depict the narrator’s obsession to the audience in each of these short stories. Both of the stories’ narrators enhance the obsession of eyes through his personality. He uses specific characteristics to talk about these eyes, as if he has studied them. The narrators can speak openly and vividly about the eyes. These in-depth descriptions further the audience’s contemplation of the narrator’s obsession with the eyes of the characters. The thoughts of the narrator’s obsession leads to the audience questioning the narrator’s sanity.
In “Ligeia”, Poe writes "the full, and the black, and the wild eyes" (Poe 40) to depict how he pictures the eyes of his "lost love." (Poe 40)
"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. It might have been, too, that in these eves of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes. They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were even fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes of the tribe of the valley of Nourjahad” (Poe 25).
This quote shows how the narrator has such a focus on these eyes that it projects to the audience that these are something much more magnificent than just a pair of eyes. He
Poe uses imagery to depict the narrator’s obsession to the audience in each of these short stories. Both of the stories’ narrators enhance the obsession of eyes through his personality. He uses specific characteristics to talk about these eyes, as if he has studied them. The narrators can speak openly and vividly about the eyes. These in-depth descriptions further the audience’s contemplation of the narrator’s obsession with the eyes of the characters. The thoughts of the narrator’s obsession leads to the audience questioning the narrator’s sanity.
In “Ligeia”, Poe writes "the full, and the black, and the wild eyes" (Poe 40) to depict how he pictures the eyes of his "lost love." (Poe 40)
"For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. It might have been, too, that in these eves of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes. They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were even fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes of the tribe of the valley of Nourjahad” (Poe 25).
This quote shows how the narrator has such a focus on these eyes that it projects to the audience that these are something much more magnificent than just a pair of eyes. He