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D. H. Lawrence wrote an essay that extensively describes Edgar Allen Poe's writing style. Lawrence looks at Poe's work as a scientific and mechanical way of writing. The tales Poe writes are not really tales at all. The only reason they are even considered as tales is because they are a concatenation of cause and effect. Lawrence saw Edgar's stories as more than just a tales. They are love stories. Poe does not write looking at the human part of someone's life. The characters are looked at as inanimate objects with human qualities, rather than the characters being human with inorganic qualities.
Lawrence elaborates on Poe's style by mentioning that he finds it to be mechanical. Poe never sees anything in terms of life. He only views life in terms of matter or force, thus the Lawrence's reference to scientific writing. This facile viewpoint on life brings out his sensitiveness to sounds and effect. Lawrence also believes that Edgar Allen Poe was a very deep man. He......

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