The first poem I looked at for this
blog post was The Haunted Palace. To summarize this poem Poe creates beautiful
imagery of a beautiful palace that used to stand in a green valley. The speaker
in the poem tells us all about the beautiful yellow banners that originally
flew from the roof of the palace. The speaker also draws attention to the
smells of the palace. Poe explains that travelers passing through the valley
used to be able to view through the beautiful windows. The view of the inside
includes spirits dancing to music as the surround the king. Once the palace
doors opened the spirits rushed out into the streets proclaiming their love for
the king. Ultimately the palace was attacked by “evil things” and destroyed the
palace. Now when travelers walk by the spirits that have shifted from rejoicing
to evil scary spirits startles them.
The next poem of Poe I read was the
black cat. This story revolves around the narrator who’s name is Pluto. Pluto,
in the beginning of the story explains a celebration that is taking place to
celebrate him. Good things only last so long because shortly after Pluto began
suffering from drastic mood swings. The moos swings got so bad that any little
thing would enrage him. When he started to descend to the cellar with his wife
right behind him he trips over a cat. Ultimately. He grabs an axe to attack the
cat but his wife defends the animal. The narrator then turns his rage into
anger and buries the ax in his wife’s head. He hides the body in the damp walls
in the basement and entomb the body behind their plaster.
The next poem I covered for this
blog post is The Cask of the Amontillado. I have read this poem probably twice
before during other courses at Eastern. I learned that this was the last of Poe’s
work and some believe it was also the greatest. To summarize this poem a man
named Montressor has hurt Fortunato. Long story short he expresses interest in
wine and they both go down to the graveyard known as a catacomb. Fortunato
walks into a crypt and is trapped in by the narrator places bricks to enclose
the wall. Once one brick is left fortunate begs for mercy but is enclosed
anyway. Montressor explains no one has found out where fortunate has been for
fifty years.
The next Poe poem I looked at was
called The fall of the House of Usher. This poem’s narrator is nameless. The
owner of the creepy mansion is a man named Roderick Usher. Usher has been sick
and diagnosed with a disease of the mind and wrote to his friend the narrator
asking for help. Usher has not left the mansion in years, the narrator tries
his best to take his mind of his illness but nothing works. When his sister
dies he asks his friend the narrator to dispose of her body. While disposing of
her body they realize that Usher and his sister were twins who shared some sort
of supernatural bond. On a stormy night they both couldn’t sleep and believe
that the sister they had buried was not dead and they had buried her alive.
Sure enough the doors open and there stands Madeline Ushers twin sister.
Madeline throws herself at Usher and he dies along with his sister.
The next poem I read was called
Evening Star. This lyric poem was published within Poe’s collections in
1827. In this poem the narrator looks
toward the sky and sees coldness except for one “Proud Evening Star” that has a
distinct fire that others stars did not. Thomas Moore’s “While Gazing on the
Moon’s Light” influenced Poe’s lyric poem.
The last poem of Edgar Allen Poe
that I read for this blog post is called The Tell-Tale Heart. To summarize this
poem the narrator loves the old man and has nothing against him expect for one
of his eyes. The narrator hates the eye so much he decided to kill the man to
free him of his old eye. Each night for 7 nights the narrator goes into the old
mans room and places a lantern in his room and peeks his head in the doorway
and shines the lantern on the old mans eye. The only thing was that the old man
never opened his bad eye making the narrator feel like he can’t kill him. On
the eighth nigh the old man screams which makes the narrator act and drags his
body out his bed and places the bed on top of the old man. Once the narrator
realizes the old man was dead he cuts him up and hides his remains under the
floor. The neighbor heard the scream, which caused the police to be called. The
narrator had convinced the cops nothing had happened. Once he had them
convinced he invited them into the old mans room to chat. While they were
chatting the narrator starts to hear a ticking noise that increases rapidly.
The narrator eventually confesses and points to the old mans body and explains
to them the ticking is coming from the old mans heart.
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