What are some details that made Poe's essay dark and depressing? What type of feelings or emotions were you feeling when you read this? Significant sentence or quotes and why they were important.
Does the Raven & Tell Tale Heart have anything in common, if so what are they?
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I believe what makes it dark and depressing is the words the he choose to describe everything within it.
Both the Raven and Tell tale heart have some things in common such as how depending on the person's view they both can be very dark and depression. Honestly, I don't find Poe as dark and depressing. He is very descriptive in his writings. Yes, he can very dark with his writing but that's what makes him a good writer in my eyes.
While reading this essay I felt bothered, like I was being watched. I think these feelings came from the tone and description Poe used. Right away, he sets the tone as anxious and creepy, "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" Readers instantly wonder what sickness he has and what is making him so nervous. The tone gives readers a sense of urgency. Along with that Poe uses descriptive words like, "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale blue eye with a film over it." One can easily picture the eye in their mind and see this old man. I think it is these details and his backwards way of writing things that made it so creepy. Sentences like, "you fancy me mad" and "passion there was none." By writing backwards readers put more thought into the sentence and think about it more than they normally would.
I think The Raven and Tell tale Heart have very similar structures because Poe uses a style of writing that is archaic to us today. He makes his sentences more complicated so we as readers will spend more time getting the real meaning of his poems and stories. In both stories Poe seems to find a self discovery. Through the Raven he realizes that he will never get over his love for Lenore. In Tell Tale Heart he discovers that his conscious is stronger than he thought because he confessed to the murder of the old man.
A) All of Poe's work is depressing. Everything is always dark and dreary. During the reading I felt the distress the character was feeling every time he saw the "evil eye". I also felt a little of his insanity. I really like this sentence when he is describing the terror in the old man's heart. "I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief -- oh, no! It was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe."
B) I read the "Tell Tale Heart" first, so at the beginning of "The Raven" I thought they were both kind of about hearing something in the dark. They could both also be about something happening that effects you so much like seeing the "evil eye" every day or loosing a loved one.
There are many specific details, but the main things that stuck out to me was the overall storyline. Where does this man come up with these things? How does his mind work? His writing is fenominal, his ability at suspense, holding the reader there, I'm trapt, i can't pick my head up. I HAVE to kow what is the reason, cause, perpose.
I really liked this story because of all the detail and description that he puts into this story. He really puts you in the story and he makes you feel what he feels. That is why i believe that Poe is such a great writer, he makes you want to keep reading and he puts so much emphasis on what the scene looks like, he puts you in the story.
Alot of Poes storys seem dark and depressing. I believe that he writes like this because he wants you to feel what he feels. He wants people to know how he felt about life.
I am in the same boat as Patricia. I want to know what this man is thinking when he writes. Is he mentally disturbed or is he a brillant writer. I wish i could ask him a couple of questions to find out.
i don't know why but the computer won't let me post on the raven, i've tried it three times and none of them have worked..
The whole entire story is dark and depressing much like his other stories. The way the man did everything made me think he was crazy especially when he kept on saying he wasn't. This is a very disturbing piece of writing because I just don't how a mans eye could drive someone to kill somebody. It makes me wonder why people commit murders in the real world.
"First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs."
I don't understand why he would have to cut the man up if he was gonna hide him under the floor anyways. Another reason why I think he is crazy.
The Raven is also a dark story like this one. He uses a lot of description in all his writings to really put the reader in the situation.
a.)the fact that the guy wants to kill the man because of his eye alone sets the tone for the whole essay. "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." this is in the second paragraph and the darkness carries on in the essay.
b.)Both the raven and the tell tale heart use very descriptive language and strong words to paint a picture in the readers head. also both characters are being bothered by either the raven or the eye.
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