Spirit Of The Dead Rhetorical Devices

“Spirit of the dead” by Edgar Allan Poe Death is a mystery to everyone that’s living, but the afterlife have experience it already it. Edgar Allan Poe, an American author and poet, wrote a poetic piece “spirit of the dead”. In this mysterious piece Poe uses imagery in each stanza to describe the insight of the afterlife. The author also uses rhetorical devices to but a sense of emotion and compare and contrast the living and the dead. Poe conveys a sense of a dark tone and atmosphere into this poetic piece to set the theme of the afterlife but that tries to find the way out or to be guided out. Allen uses this poetic piece to describe the insight of a psyche, with literary devices like metaphors, similes, paradox and personification and figurative language to describe how the afterlife is his own words and emotions. …show more content…
That’s trying to cross through veil to the other mysterious realm. Then Poe uses a sense of imagery “mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone” so reader can visualized that the lonely soul is floating over his/her grave. Obsessed with his own mortality and can’t find in self to realize his dead and move on, or have thoughts of his past life and some one important to him. That makes it hard for him/her to move on with his/her life. Also the words “dark thoughts” convey a dark theme hopelessness and a sense of being lost or trying to gain his sanity back in the