To understand Poe's work, one must first understand his background. Sprouted from the branch of two actors; a father who turned his back on his family, and a mother who lost her life to tuberculosis, poet Edgar Allen Poe is quite familiar with being faced with isolation. Isolation; the process or fact of isolating or being isolated. Being no stranger to this, Poe uses not only mood, but imagery and diction to illustrate isolation in his work.
Imbedded in each piece of writing by Poe, whether it be a poem or short story, is a mood.
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters—lone and dead,—
Their still waters—still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,—
A quote from Poe's poem "Dreamland", in which he describes a bit of the scenery along …show more content…
And this I did for
seven long nights --every night just at
midnight --but I found the eye always
closed; and so it was impossible to do the
work; for it was not the old man who vexed
me, but his Evil Eye.
Poe doesn't refer to the eye as a part of the old man, no; he instead chooses to refer to it as "the vulture eye" for it was not the old man himself that "vexed" him, it was in fact the eye. Using the word "vexed" gives the audience an idea of just how troubles the character is by this evil, pale blue eye with a film over it.
From a lostboy wandering aimlessly in a so called "Dreamland", to a mad man driven over the edge by an old man's beating "Tell-Tell Heart", comes a man who lost himself to sorrow over the death of his beloved Lenore, depicting illusions of a raven that were nearly patronizing. It is redoubtable that one will never truly understand what isolation is exactly until one is in it- lost within the means of reality; confined within one's own mind. As shown through several pieces of his writing, Edgar Allan Poe comes to show that he truly is no stranger to the not so empty void of
Imbedded in each piece of writing by Poe, whether it be a poem or short story, is a mood.
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters—lone and dead,—
Their still waters—still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,—
A quote from Poe's poem "Dreamland", in which he describes a bit of the scenery along …show more content…
And this I did for
seven long nights --every night just at
midnight --but I found the eye always
closed; and so it was impossible to do the
work; for it was not the old man who vexed
me, but his Evil Eye.
Poe doesn't refer to the eye as a part of the old man, no; he instead chooses to refer to it as "the vulture eye" for it was not the old man himself that "vexed" him, it was in fact the eye. Using the word "vexed" gives the audience an idea of just how troubles the character is by this evil, pale blue eye with a film over it.
From a lostboy wandering aimlessly in a so called "Dreamland", to a mad man driven over the edge by an old man's beating "Tell-Tell Heart", comes a man who lost himself to sorrow over the death of his beloved Lenore, depicting illusions of a raven that were nearly patronizing. It is redoubtable that one will never truly understand what isolation is exactly until one is in it- lost within the means of reality; confined within one's own mind. As shown through several pieces of his writing, Edgar Allan Poe comes to show that he truly is no stranger to the not so empty void of