AM Lit Final Paper Throughout the year in my American Literature class, I have been very lucky to have been exposed to numerous talented writers. My favorite author that I studied in my class was named Edgar Allan Poe. I enjoyed Poe’s descriptive vocabulary, his first person point of view, and his gothic stories. Ray Bradbury was another author that my class studied this semester. I enjoyed his many metaphors and his abstract descriptions in his story “Fahrenheit 451”, but I found the book hard to read due to the flow his writing had. Writing, like art, comes in many different fashions. Poe, a short story writer with a gothic style, and Bradbury, a highly descriptive science fiction author, write about very different topics, yet both of
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Poe and Bradbury’s stories are both poetic and highly descriptive. Though Bradbury may be considered more poetic than Poe by his extensive use of metaphors, similes and symbolism, Poe also uses amounts of symbolism such as the cat’s name in the story “The Black Cat”. The cat was named pluto, which is the greek god’s name of death. Foreshadowing is also used by both of these authors. In “Fahrenheit 451”, there is a part of the story in which Montag stares at a vent. The vent, later on in the story, is the hiding spot for his stolen illegal books. Poe, in the story “Tell Tale Heart”, says that the main character is not crazy multiple times, yet ironically, the man has a mental break down at the end of the story when the police are in the room searching. The descriptive style that Poe and Bradbury both possess, are very different, but regardless of the style, they are both highly descriptive authors. Poe, using the first person narrative, describes to the reader exactly what the body, mind, and emotions of the main character are at any given point. Poe stresses the use of describing the five senses throughout his stories to help the reader feel exactly what Poe wants the reader to feel. Bradbury, on the contrary, is also very descriptive, but has a different approach. Poe uses very proper english rules while writing, but Bradbury throws away grammar rules at points to stress the situation at place.
Poe and Bradbury’s stories are both poetic and highly descriptive. Though Bradbury may be considered more poetic than Poe by his extensive use of metaphors, similes and symbolism, Poe also uses amounts of symbolism such as the cat’s name in the story “The Black Cat”. The cat was named pluto, which is the greek god’s name of death. Foreshadowing is also used by both of these authors. In “Fahrenheit 451”, there is a part of the story in which Montag stares at a vent. The vent, later on in the story, is the hiding spot for his stolen illegal books. Poe, in the story “Tell Tale Heart”, says that the main character is not crazy multiple times, yet ironically, the man has a mental break down at the end of the story when the police are in the room searching. The descriptive style that Poe and Bradbury both possess, are very different, but regardless of the style, they are both highly descriptive authors. Poe, using the first person narrative, describes to the reader exactly what the body, mind, and emotions of the main character are at any given point. Poe stresses the use of describing the five senses throughout his stories to help the reader feel exactly what Poe wants the reader to feel. Bradbury, on the contrary, is also very descriptive, but has a different approach. Poe uses very proper english rules while writing, but Bradbury throws away grammar rules at points to stress the situation at place.