When life brightens up, it can always reach back to darkness. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates this throughout the poem “The Bells”. Poe starts the poem off with silver bells making us remember the happy memories big and small in our life. Then Poe goes on to describe golden bells as joyus by saying, “How they ring out their delight...what a gush of euphony voluminously wells!” This represents a time in life that is happy, peaceful, and where life seems perfect. Next the narrator says, “What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! How they scream out their affright!” (Poe). In this stanza Poe is describing brazen bells, depicting them as alarms for terrible events such as tornados or fires. Lasly Poe describes iron bells with, “What a world
