The Philosophy of Composition

In the raven we meet a man who is in greff of his dead wife and is not in a stable condition. A Raven appears and drives him insane. This very basic outline of the poem show us that the narrator is not reliable and is in a very sensitive state have just lost a loved one. This makes him very fragile and his brain could be playing tricks on him, and manipulating his senses for example when the narrator hears someone whispering Lenore or the narrator heard the raven said “Nevermore”. Ravens are…

William Faulkner is a man who has written drastically complex works and is renowned around the world. His major works include The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, written in the 18th century. Faulkner was a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his novel writing as well as two Pulitzer prizes and National Book Awards. Additionally, he received his education from the University of Mississippi. The film A Rose for Emily directed by Lyndon Chubbuck is based upon William Faulkner’s short…

“Conflict builds character,” as often said by authors, readers, and others alike-- but perhaps some authors build character through the use of conflict better than others, like Edgar Allan Poe (author of many, many short stories and poems but for the sake of this essay, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death”) and Jack London (the author of Call of the Wild), for example. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is the story of a man who kills another, due to being bothered by the the other’s…

If you have read the short stories The Tell Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, you might wonder what are some of the similarities between them. Will they were both written by Edgar Allan Poe. Both of the stories had the deaths of main characters. Also one person from each story went mad. In both stories insanity decides how the story ends. People close to Edgar Allan Poe died for example his wife and mother. To top it off he might have been there as a young child when his mother…

The poet Edgar Allan Poe was a poet that focused on darker themes. Some say it was a way of dealing with his emotions, due to how the poems correlate to his life. But he did not become the poet we know and love today by just writing. I will be talking about his poems and how his use of form, structure, imagery, figurative language, help to convey his theme, I'll be doing this by comparing the poems “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”. In the poem The Raven poe uses long lines and 6 lines per stanza,…

In what way does transformation play a role in stories meant to scare us? Transformation plays a large role in most stories meant to scare us. In these stories, transformation is what can either get the reader on the edge of their seat, or can change the story to much and make people lose interested in reader. In a scary story, transformation of something such as a character, or a setting, can build major suspense / fright which could be something the reader didn't expect “Beware: do not read…

The short stories, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, and Ozymandias by Percy B. Shelley, all incorporate characters who promote the plot. While there are noticeable differences between each poem, the similarities stand. Differences include variances in plot, types of characters, and unique writing style integrated by the authors. Similarities that unite the three poems involve the various characters having a role to further the generality of the plot. 4…

Edgar Allan Poe has become a vital figure in the world of literature based on his gothic short stories, Cask of Amontillado to The Fall of House Usher and Tell-Tale Heart, each unique in their own way as they have attracted more people to his books for over two centuries. In his short stories, Poe has shown numerous amounts of descriptive and unsettling imagery with different techniques, adding an eerie mood along with suspenseful syntax. Poe not only incorporates techniques such as unsettling…

Poe’s Narrators/ Unreliable Narrators In Edgar Allan Poe’s stories there sometimes tends to be an unreliable narrator in the story. We can see that in his 3 stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “That Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Those stories show characteristics of an unreliable narrator. We can mostly see it in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Everyone of Poe’s stories has a gruesome and traumatic ending which add on to that insane and unreliable sense. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is…

Compare and Contrast Essay: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl Both short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady” by Roald Dahl are gothic, mysterious stories. The authors (of both stories) make the stories exciting for the reader due to the tension and suspense they create. There are some clear differences between the two stories, but also some similarities. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is the main character in the…