Edgar Allen Poe is a famous poet found in the eighteenth century who loved to write deep, dark, meaningful poems expressing his very inner emotions. Much to believe that “Spirits of the Dead” was written for Poe’s need to accept the fate of death and the struggle to connect with those that have deceased.
Firstly, Poe’s mood travels differently as the stanzas progress. The first two expressed tribulations towards death, and slowly moved to enmity, and then lastly Poe accepted the effect death gives. He didn’t write the piece as someone looking in, but nonetheless wrote it as someone viewing life on the death side. This manifested by the symbolic vocabulary used, such as the beginning “dark”, “tombstone”, “night” shifting in the middle to “fever”, …show more content…
Edgar wrote the first stanza as an AABB pattern whereas the second stanza shifted to ABABCC pattern. The third, fourth and fifth stanza followed as AABBCCDD, AABB, and AABBCC respectively. A few times the ending sounds were not apparent but however the first and third stanza claimed to have visual rhyming words such as “pry” and “secrecy”, or “fever” and “ever”. Anyhow, other than those points in the piece, every line and its ending word would match with it pattern. Throughout “Spirits of the Dead”, readers like myself, noticed personification written by Poe. He gave a few moments where he would compare the more human world to the natural world. He would state the night will frown down on the spirits on the dead and the stars will keep lives on this universe united together. Meaning, the souls that are now not connected to human form are saddened and need to linger with the life they once had. Also, along with that, when the speaker compared the breeze on the hill to the breath of God. This could be perceived as personification because the higher power, God, represents a nonhuman characteristic quality to give depth and strong meaning to the breeze and what feeling it gives to someone who were to have it be blown against their
Firstly, Poe’s mood travels differently as the stanzas progress. The first two expressed tribulations towards death, and slowly moved to enmity, and then lastly Poe accepted the effect death gives. He didn’t write the piece as someone looking in, but nonetheless wrote it as someone viewing life on the death side. This manifested by the symbolic vocabulary used, such as the beginning “dark”, “tombstone”, “night” shifting in the middle to “fever”, …show more content…
Edgar wrote the first stanza as an AABB pattern whereas the second stanza shifted to ABABCC pattern. The third, fourth and fifth stanza followed as AABBCCDD, AABB, and AABBCC respectively. A few times the ending sounds were not apparent but however the first and third stanza claimed to have visual rhyming words such as “pry” and “secrecy”, or “fever” and “ever”. Anyhow, other than those points in the piece, every line and its ending word would match with it pattern. Throughout “Spirits of the Dead”, readers like myself, noticed personification written by Poe. He gave a few moments where he would compare the more human world to the natural world. He would state the night will frown down on the spirits on the dead and the stars will keep lives on this universe united together. Meaning, the souls that are now not connected to human form are saddened and need to linger with the life they once had. Also, along with that, when the speaker compared the breeze on the hill to the breath of God. This could be perceived as personification because the higher power, God, represents a nonhuman characteristic quality to give depth and strong meaning to the breeze and what feeling it gives to someone who were to have it be blown against their