Melancholy In Edgar Allen Poe's Writing

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Melancholy is a familiar form of writing often found in Edgar Allen Poe’s writing. Melancholy is the feeling of pensive sadness, usually with no obvious cause. Melancholy can create the feeling for the story whether it be from developing the tone, mood, or even possibly helping create the setting or diction. Edgar Allen Poe typically wrote about death or dark times when everything and anything happening was not very great. The use and evolution of melancholy can impact and change the way a story is written. Poe evolved and progressed the use of melancholy to make his works the greatest of his time period.

The way that Poe can make a reader feel or think when he writes is something with which many writers struggle. Edgar Allen Poe can create these feelings using what some could think of as brain magic. This brain magic is used in melancholy that Poe uses plenty of his writings. Poe’s use of melancholy created deeper and darker stories unlike anyone in his time had ever read, and even though his time is long gone, with his works and writings still around today Poe can give
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Poe could be writing with his emotions and feeling. Poe’s struggle in life may be what led him to always seem to write with melancholy which made the stories better and him a better writer. The feeling of sadness of pensiveness in Poe’s writing may be so well that the reader may actually feel it themselves. The feeling of melancholy only gets stronger as a reader gets deeper into one of Poe’s works because Poe may just be giving readers little bits of melancholy in the beginning and bring those thoughts and feeling out more as his writing progresses. The giving of just little hints of melancholy in the story can help build certain feelings, it could make the reader want to keep reading it could make the reader sad and the way that the melancholy is used can help decide how the reader could possibly interpret the

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