How Does Edgar Allan Poe Use The Figures Of Speech In His Poetry

Poe was the poet. His poems were about horror, mystery, death and even misery. At the age of three, Poe was separated from his parents being that his mother died from tuberculosis and his father just abandoned him. Being stripped away from his brother William and his sister Rosalie, Poe went through a lifetime of tragedy and hurt. Throughout this essay, I will explain how Poe uses the figures of speech in his poems to bring them more alive. I will also be determining whether or not Poe's work has lived up to my expectations. Poe's greatest accomplishments were his poems because those are what he is known for.
In Poe's poem "The Bells" published in 1849, there is a variety of personification and alliteration. The poem is mainly telling us about the sounds of four different kinds of bells. It starts off with light and happiness and slowly begins to end in sadness, fear, and misery of the bells. "What a world of merriment their melody foretells" (Poe 3). This line shows and tells one how joyous and happy the world seems at that near moment as to towards the end of the poem where everything becomes sad and filled with misery. "To the sobbing of the
It is considered to be a metaphor for the death of the human soul. "The waves have now a redder glow-" (Poe 32). This begins to better explain the title of the poem and that the death of the human soul is actually the human soul descending to hell. This poem would be a great example for one of Poe's death poems. "Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest"(Poe 54). This line has a variety of meaning to it. The meaning that one would interpret from this would be that everyone eventually descends into hell. This meaning can also be interpreted as everyone is the same because everyone sins no matter how big or small the sin is. Poe used metaphors in