Poe Communicator Edgar Allan Poe's

Poe Communicator Edgar Allan Poe's literary works are regarded as some of the finest American writings ever produced. In order to earn such accolades, Poe must have tapped into a common trait that has brought many admirers to his books. The purpose of this essay is to explore the communication style that Poe used in his short stories and poems. Poe's unique and stylistic use of fear, suspense and doubt helped produce works that appear very real but also strike deep emotions that ring out truths in individuals as well.

This essay will explore some of these designs in order to help contextualize Poe as an author and contributor to great communicative literary works of art. Poe first and foremost was a story teller. This brand of literature requires the author to have grasped the literay tool of descriptive narrative. This style is classicaly expressed in one of Poe's more famous short stories, the Cask of Amontillado. This story, first published in 1846 in a magazine is a tale set on revenge and violence.

Poe voices the story from the perspective of the murderer or antagonist in this story demonstrating a narrative technique that seperates itself from the normal by using a negative viewpoint. Poe used chilling language in this story from this first person perspective. The opening paragraph of the story set the tone for the dark and macabre setting this author became famous for communicating. We can feel the pain of the narrator in this story when he claims at the beginning " I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." Poe does not hold back in this story has he assumes a mental standpoint that can only be classified as twisted. As the narrator executes his murderous plot in the story, Poe uses language and metaphor to set a scene of commonplace, making the distinction that much more alarming.

The narrator remained calm as he proclaimed "When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within." Poe was also a poet and communicated his feelings very well in this type of literature as well.

In Annabel Lee Poe's doom and gloom takes another shape of opportunities gone by and regret. The reader feels the darkness and sadness expressed in this poem as Poe appears to strip his heart of all emotions and leaves it exposed for all to gape and wonder at.

Death and grief has stricken the narrator of this poems and we really feel it when he proclaimed: For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling -my darling -my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Another Poe classic short story entitled the Tell Tale Heart also displayed his unique way of gaining the attention of the reader by use of dark and gloomy descriptions. This story is about going mad and losing one's mind. Poe may have really experienced this process as this story definitely takes a personal tone.

The reader cannot help to feel the chaotic feelings that madness brings when grasping the Poe's words: " TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.

How, then, am I mad? " Once again Poe takes the first person narrative as the route to deliver his dark message, making them not only more colorful, but also more scary and realistic. Today's poets and story tellers could learn much from revisiting some of Poe's works. The personal touch and his willingness to incorporate some of the more darker sides of human awareness makes him stand out from others. The honesty that Poe used should be adopted and adapted for other writers to seem more sincere about their work.

Unlike some modern writers who write horror stories, such as Stephen King, Poe personalizes his stories in ways that King doesn't. Instead of suspense King uses graphic violence and shock to capture the imaginations of his readers. Poe does this with artistic language forcing the reader to depict many of the most chilling moments.