The Views of Death! Dark Romantic text communicated diverse views of death through the use of imagery, symbolism, diction, structure, repetition, and other literary devices.. The various poems and story, showed how the early Dark Romantics saw death as a gentleman or kind spirit. Others saw death a form of fear or the wrath of the devil himself. In the poem “Because I could stop not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, and the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, all use rhetorical strategies of English text to convey their views of death. There are many different interpretations of death, such as how death is a gentleman, or death is a form of fear, or death is a representation of the devil. Although the authors in Chapter Two talk about different subjects in their works, they all indirectly communicate views of death in Dark Romantic literature. In the first reading entitled “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, she stated that death is a kind gentleman. Dickinson uses the rhetorical strategies of imagery and
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Irving creates the mood of his story by giving the readers a sense of fear through the use diction. “It was late in the dusk of evening when Tom Walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the time of the Indian wars, when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit” (Irving 155). Irving uses specific words in his text as a form of negative diction to create an eerie mood. Irving uses the words such as “unwilling”, “lonely”, “melancholy”, “savages”, and “sacrifices” to create his desired eerie
Irving creates the mood of his story by giving the readers a sense of fear through the use diction. “It was late in the dusk of evening when Tom Walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the time of the Indian wars, when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit” (Irving 155). Irving uses specific words in his text as a form of negative diction to create an eerie mood. Irving uses the words such as “unwilling”, “lonely”, “melancholy”, “savages”, and “sacrifices” to create his desired eerie