Irving and Hawthorne preferred passiveness; whereby, Edgar Allan Poe was fearless. Similar to Hawthorne and Irving, Poe was notorious for his play in Dark Romanticism using figurative language. However, he was unmatched in his utilization of repetition in his arabesque and grotesque style, which incorporates specifically to create his mood of horror and mystery. His well-recognized poem, The Raven, displayed his genius unequivocally and made him “internationally famous.” (textbook 687) It harbors folklore, symbolism, and his extreme Gothicism, which endorses …show more content…
The raven’s human-like attributes reinforce Poe’s unparalleled penmanship in his skillful use of personification. Fisher highlights the raven’s motionlessness silence is the very element that creates space for the imagination to become unbound in Poe’s exposition of imprisonment. (#3 45) Poe shifts Gothicism, which was once a simple thrill of horror, into today’s psychological thriller that most of his readers obsessively yearn to receive. (#3 49) He continues to use his sounds and rhythmic touches in Annabel Lee. R. J. Hammond’s states“scholars are generally agreed that the poem refers to Poe’s wife, Virginia Clemm, who died at the age of twenty-four.” (#4 38) “The Purloined Letter” is one of Poe’s first mysteries producing wit entangled in “a clever game of deception.”(#3 60) Poe is attributed with “inventing the genre of detective fiction”… including characters of “detective, sidekick, policeman, and archvillain as well as the use of first-person narration.”(#2 171) Poe’s embraces the element of time expertly to create this unforgettable suspense-mystery story. In