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Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style


The short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen
Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious
style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different
views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when
he said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and
hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. " ( 7) For me, this is
done through his use of setting and narrative style.

In many of Poe's works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy
picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberately
by Poe so that the
reader can make a connection between darkness and death. For example, in the
"Pit and the Pendulum", the setting is originally pitch black. As the story
unfolds, we see how the setting begins to play an important role in how the
narrator discovers the many ways he may die. Although he must......

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