While Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne were both writers of the Dark Romantic era, they expressed Romanticism differently in each of their stories. In each of his stories, Poe portrays an ongoing image of pure darkness and dismay. In his story “The Black Cat”, Poe creates scenes of great horror such as, “Goaded by the interference into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her head.”(Poe,15). Quotes like this strike chills and a gruesome image into the audience, causing them to not only see but feel the pure darkness Poe uses throughout his stories. Poe produced an intense horror with his Romanticism, but in the Hawthorne's stories, Hawthorne fabricates Romanticism through his detailed imagery
