Poe had a very precise way of words. With this intelligence, Poe wanted his readers to feel quite a bit of emptiness and sorrow at the end of his story. Poe used specific words in sentences like, “and one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall”, to convey this bitterness. Just by looking at that quote, Poe was shown to be creating mood just then without the reader even realizing it. Poe used several connotation words like, “blood-bedewed”, “revel”, and “despairing” to create that sense of sorrow. The last sentence in this story is what makes readers feel the most emptiest. This quote would be, “And Darkness and Decay the Red Death held illimitable dominion
