The Myth Of The Tunnel, By Edgar Allan Poe

Bridge is consisted of eight parts and a prelude, which represents the creative climax of Crane’s. It is one of the few poems to aim at eulogizing modern American society. The theme of the poem presents the cosmopolitan spectator of New York City, which induces some associations. The poet adopts the creative skill—symphony. By the description of the bridge to display the American mythology and the epic subject same as. The bridge is a symbol of evolution of civilization and spirit faith. For access to American, it connects the past, the present and the future. With exultant emotion, the author draws a historical and spiritual sense of America and chants the poem with some way like Walt Whitman’s who is associated with the upward and the westward.
As in Song of Myself it moves westward in imagination from Brooklyn from California; it also goes backward into the depths of the psyche. Different historical figures appear to guide the poet-quester: Pocahontas, Columbus, Rip Wan Winkle. Two poets represent American opposites: Walt Whitman, who is associated with the upward and westward, and Edgar Allan Poe, poet of darkness, who is met in the depths of The Tunnel. The bridge, in various metaphorical meanings, is the object of all these quests and hence unifies the poem. The separate lyrics that comprise The Bridge are arranged like music, with recurring and modulated themes rather than a narrative or expository sequence. As in most modernist poems, the verse is open and varied, the syntax complicated and often ambiguous, and the jumps in reference abrupt and often dependent on a personal, hence obscure, logic. All this makes the poems to apprehend; yet for some of its readers it accomplishes just what Crane intended---that is, it restates an American tradition in modernist terms.
The creation of Bridge is of a grand scale. It took Crane 7 years to devote his energies of a lifetime to complete this piece of works. When the poetry came out, it got both the praise and blame from the echoing of the critic circles. Even the prestigious critiques hold the negative attitudes. After his death, the critic circles reconsidered to
The center of The Bridge, for example, is the image of the Brooklyn Bridge: a tangible object studied for its implications as metaphor and transformed in the process. Crane believed—as do many poets—that the essential difference between poetry and expository, logical discourse is the image; he believed that metaphor preceded logic in the history of human thought and it remains the primary mode in which human knowledge is acquired and expanded. Thus the Brooklyn Bridge becomes a metaphor for division and connection, for access to America, for a thrust into the past and future. It reminds one of American technology, and of Walt Whitman’s great poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. The image is supported by other unique image, which is the total poem. “Over the chained by waters Liberty” (in the 4th line), the poet regards the graceful shape of the bridge as Liberty’s. “The flashing scene” (in stanza 3) is the metaphorical meaning of cosmopolitan noisy life. “Shill shirt ballooning” (in stanza 5): the poet regards the shrill shirt as the