Writing is all around us - within the writing are devices and syntax that warp the everyday words into someone 's story, essay, text message or email. Within the ever expanding dictionary of the human mind, we 're constantly improving our skills with these stylistic devices the more we write. Our uses of these devices however, are usually what distinguishes two completely different writers apart, and can also bring two different writers together. The variation of every human 's writing is a grand feat of its own, and can best be compared to the genetic variation throughout the evolution of man. Edgar Allan Poe, an author of dark romanticism had very heavy syntax brought with his stories of fear and emotion, which ultimately distinguished
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The scythe which swung to and fro above his abdomen was a symbol for the inevitability of human life to time. Poe uses this symbolism to represent the role of father time in the timeliness or untimeliness of death on a human life. Along with themes of death, Poe also provokes and scrapes the feelings of hopelessness among the human conscious in the following passage of “The Pit and the Pendulum”: “Amid frequent and thoughtful endeavors to remember, amid earnest struggles to regather some token of the state of seeming nothingness into which my soul had lapsed, there have been moments when I have dreamed of success; there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up remembrances which the lucid reason of a later epoch assures me could have had reference only to that condition of seeming unconsciousness.”. Poe uses his diction to inflect the characters state of mind upon the reading of the passage, and prepares to accept the path that had been unfairly laid out before him. The reasoning for Poe’s diction is to make the reader understand the mental crucible in front of the man, as well as to observe that despite being autonomous, humanity cannot control intangible things. Lastly, Poe uses imagery in “The Pit and The Pendulum” to display the mental condition of the tortured soul who lay at mercy to his captors in the following passage “A fearful idea now suddenly drove the blood in torrents upon my heart, and for a brief period I once more relapsed into insensibility. Upon recovering, I at once started to my feet,
The scythe which swung to and fro above his abdomen was a symbol for the inevitability of human life to time. Poe uses this symbolism to represent the role of father time in the timeliness or untimeliness of death on a human life. Along with themes of death, Poe also provokes and scrapes the feelings of hopelessness among the human conscious in the following passage of “The Pit and the Pendulum”: “Amid frequent and thoughtful endeavors to remember, amid earnest struggles to regather some token of the state of seeming nothingness into which my soul had lapsed, there have been moments when I have dreamed of success; there have been brief, very brief periods when I have conjured up remembrances which the lucid reason of a later epoch assures me could have had reference only to that condition of seeming unconsciousness.”. Poe uses his diction to inflect the characters state of mind upon the reading of the passage, and prepares to accept the path that had been unfairly laid out before him. The reasoning for Poe’s diction is to make the reader understand the mental crucible in front of the man, as well as to observe that despite being autonomous, humanity cannot control intangible things. Lastly, Poe uses imagery in “The Pit and The Pendulum” to display the mental condition of the tortured soul who lay at mercy to his captors in the following passage “A fearful idea now suddenly drove the blood in torrents upon my heart, and for a brief period I once more relapsed into insensibility. Upon recovering, I at once started to my feet,