Poe vs Hawthorne
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” This quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven is one of many from the dark romanticism authors such as Poe and Hawthorne. Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne show through their writings the melancholy and mystical aspects of Puritan thought in America. In the works of Poe and Hawthorne, they show differences and similarities of history, style, and even their themes of writings. The history of Poe and Hawthorne are very different but they can show some small similarities. Poe lost a large amount of people during his life. “Abandoned by his father as an infant, Poes lost his mother to tuberculosis by the age of 3.” Poe also lost the life of his bride when she was just 24 years old. …show more content…
In Hawthorne's The Minister’s Black Veil, he shows symbolism through the veil itself. It was showing sins of the minister and it was scaring everybody into thinking that something really bad has happened. “I can’t really feel as if good Mr. Hooper’s face was behind that piece of crape,” Another story that Hawthorne showed symbolism is was Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. Almost everything in that story symbolized something. The skeleton and mirror both symbolized Heidegger's failures and him holding onto the past. Poe showed symbolism through his poem The Raven, the raven itself is symbolizing guilt that never leaves, from the raven saying “Quoth the raven, Nevermore,” over and over again.
Overall the lives of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne had very different histories even though they were born during the same time. Although they both were writers of Dark Romanticism, their writings had very different themes, and very similar forms of
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” This quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven is one of many from the dark romanticism authors such as Poe and Hawthorne. Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne show through their writings the melancholy and mystical aspects of Puritan thought in America. In the works of Poe and Hawthorne, they show differences and similarities of history, style, and even their themes of writings. The history of Poe and Hawthorne are very different but they can show some small similarities. Poe lost a large amount of people during his life. “Abandoned by his father as an infant, Poes lost his mother to tuberculosis by the age of 3.” Poe also lost the life of his bride when she was just 24 years old. …show more content…
In Hawthorne's The Minister’s Black Veil, he shows symbolism through the veil itself. It was showing sins of the minister and it was scaring everybody into thinking that something really bad has happened. “I can’t really feel as if good Mr. Hooper’s face was behind that piece of crape,” Another story that Hawthorne showed symbolism is was Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. Almost everything in that story symbolized something. The skeleton and mirror both symbolized Heidegger's failures and him holding onto the past. Poe showed symbolism through his poem The Raven, the raven itself is symbolizing guilt that never leaves, from the raven saying “Quoth the raven, Nevermore,” over and over again.
Overall the lives of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne had very different histories even though they were born during the same time. Although they both were writers of Dark Romanticism, their writings had very different themes, and very similar forms of