Think of the unity of effect like a cowboy riding a bull. The longer the cowboy stays on the bull, the more the audience feels the rush, the adrenaline. When every aspect of your writing is focused on a consistent point, a piece of emotion hits the readers. In order to achieve the unity of effect, one might begin to evoke beauty in all living and natural elements and add a touch of emotion, thus determining a desired unity of effect. Edgar Allan Poe uses a variety of literary devices and other styles of romantic writing in order to create the one emotional effect, the one goal and the one specific tone in his poems and short stories. “The Philosophy of Composition” access’s Poe’s statements and opinions to his own work.
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His appeal in the emotions through his work was what he wanted for his readers. His unity of effect was touching his readers as soon as his they read his work with what he believed in. His poems were an extension of him. For example, in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Whitman ends his poem with, “Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul”(Whitman 978). Whitman refers to the soul as if there were only one soul present. The soul does not belong to anyone. Whitman created a unified whole and furnished his elements with the dualities of his poem; reader and author, life and death, the present and past all become a whole in his …show more content…
Fright and beauty, for example was often the effect Poe chose for many of his short stories like, “Annabel Lee” and “Lenore”. The more unusual and the more bizarre the topic was about a woman, the more the effect was given through the image. Every word and every image created an effect of beauty in a woman within the mind of the reader. Much like Whitman, who also focused on the beauty of the human for example the beauty of the human body and spirit. Whitman makes common subjects, like his dualities, worthy of expressing his unity of effect. He reaches out to the reader. “Whitman’s mission was to put a person, a human being, freely, fully and truly on record ”(Birmingham). Whitman wanted to exchange a spur of emotion between himself and his readers. He achieves the unity of affect by entering into the heads of others, much like
“Keeping originality …show more content…
His appeal in the emotions through his work was what he wanted for his readers. His unity of effect was touching his readers as soon as his they read his work with what he believed in. His poems were an extension of him. For example, in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Whitman ends his poem with, “Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul”(Whitman 978). Whitman refers to the soul as if there were only one soul present. The soul does not belong to anyone. Whitman created a unified whole and furnished his elements with the dualities of his poem; reader and author, life and death, the present and past all become a whole in his …show more content…
Fright and beauty, for example was often the effect Poe chose for many of his short stories like, “Annabel Lee” and “Lenore”. The more unusual and the more bizarre the topic was about a woman, the more the effect was given through the image. Every word and every image created an effect of beauty in a woman within the mind of the reader. Much like Whitman, who also focused on the beauty of the human for example the beauty of the human body and spirit. Whitman makes common subjects, like his dualities, worthy of expressing his unity of effect. He reaches out to the reader. “Whitman’s mission was to put a person, a human being, freely, fully and truly on record ”(Birmingham). Whitman wanted to exchange a spur of emotion between himself and his readers. He achieves the unity of affect by entering into the heads of others, much like