Dear Edgar Allan Poe, I feel your poem “The Haunted Palace” is a very strongly written poem with an extremely dark twist. Your use of metaphors, symbolism, alliteration, stanzas and rhyme scheme makes this poem an interesting read. With some language you use, it makes it somewhat hard to read in some areas but the rhyming helps to understand those words. Throughout most of the poem you use an ABAB rhyme scheme, along with the use of a slant rhyme. The way you are able spin words makes a very fun read. The title of this particular poem is a foreshadow of the sinister twist that you are well known for. In the first few lines, the poem seems to speak about a beautiful palace, which is uncommon in your works. Such as line three “once a fair and stately place”. Using words like “fair” and “stately” gives the reader a sense of peace and being at ease. Also with lines nine and ten “banners yellow, glorious, golden, on its roof did float and flow” supplies an image of a beautiful palace in the “greenest of valleys” (line 1). This puts an image in my mind of a fairy tale-esque land. The King or “monarch” is introduced in line five, as to which the voice of the person telling the story gives the name “Thought”. So now we have the idea of this king and a beautiful palace placed into our minds. To me it feels even more so as a fairy tale having a powerful King and his beautiful palace. The voice of the poem gives me a feeling that the King is loved by his people. As with the name
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“The Haunted Palace” is one of Edgar Allen Poe’s mysterious and phantasmagoric poems. Written in the same year as “The Devil in the Belfry,” and included in his short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Haunted Palace” is another tale of innocence and happiness now corroded with sorrow and madness. It is fairly easy to say that “The Haunted Palace” is a metaphor for Poe’s own ghostly troubled mind, more than it is about a decaying palace. For in 1839, it was found in a book that the main character in “The Fall of the House of Usher” comes across. In the context of its appearance in “Usher,” it is startlingly clear that this is no fable of earthly decay, but one of mental and spiritual ruin.
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Edgar Allan Poe is known for his knowledge of how to build and use suspense, but how does he do it? Poe has done many works in his time as a poet and he has mastered suspense in writing these works. He knows when and how to use suspense. In all of his story you can find at least one sentence of suspense. Edgar Allan Poe uses craft elements like short and choppy sentences, the setting, and very descriptive language to build suspense in his works.
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"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed." This quote by Edgar Allan Poe describes his obscure works which have been discussed and criticized in great detail for many years to come. Some readers believe that his works are too dark and eccentric maybe even deathly. Others believe his works to be masterpieces. However, one thing that is not up for debate is the fact that Edgar Allan Poe is a literary genius. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the ratiocinative story and the amateur sleuth and leading contributor to the gothic genre, is the greatest author of the mid-nineteenth century.
is made through his use of punctuation, word choice, figurative language, tone, and sentence structure.
Do you know who is best at creating suspense? Edgar Allen Poe is the master of suspense, because of his intense writing style. He has stories that has you at the end of your seat and makes you wonder what would happen next. Poe uses a lot of different techniques to create suspense. He uses vivid similes, senses, and repetition to help the readers to envision the scene and help visualize the plot.
Edgar Allan Poe once said, “With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.” When stressed, writing was his coping mechanism, and through observation, many grasp how much death encompassed Poe. Although not appreciated during his era, he revolutionized mystery with mesmerizing story plots that yield suspense, but also makes readers question his stability. Most importantly, unlike those famous during his lifetime who are now forgotten, Poe’s legacy will live on forever. Moreover, throughout life, Poe experienced catastrophe, and because of this, writing became his creative outlet.
In Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe states, “We loved with a love that was more than love.” This saying is used by thousands of people everyday to their soul mate. The American Renaissance, which began in 1828 through 1865. Poe was an Anti-Transcendentalist, he wrote mostly about self-destruction (sin). Edgar Allan Poe enjoyed writing about death, sinful acts, and how others felt towards sin.
Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than
To better understand this poem some history about London during the time the poem was written is helpful. London was the “. . . undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center” of England in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. It was a city of “warehouses, docks, factories, prisons,
The poem begins with two lines which are repeated throughout the poem which convey what the narrator is thinking, they represent the voice in
The poem begins with the narrator's describing the poem as a 'dream' that ''was not at all a dream'', which already causes doubt and tension within the reader. The narrator then goes on to talk about
Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences: