I need to know what The Bells is about and what the whole poem means. COMPLETE ANALYSIS! I have to do it for English. Pleas help:(

I need it A.S.A.P. Thanks!!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

Answers

I NEED TO KNOW IT TO AND THIS IS WHAT I'VE GOTTEN SO FAR, I THINK THAT EACH TYPE OF BELL THAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE SILVER, GOLD AND SO ON THEY EACH AFFECT THE SOUND, AND THAT THE WORDS IN EACH COLUMN GO WITH THE TYPE OF BELL THEY SAY IT IS IN THE BEGINNING (LIKE SILVER-TWINKEL, GOLD-WEDDING BELLS AND SO ON) AND I ALSO THINK THAT EVERYTIME THEY SAY BELLS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THE BELLS ARE RINGING AND THAT THE WORDS RHYMING IS THE RYTHYM OF THE BELLS BUT I AM NOT CERTAINLY SURE TELL ME WHAT YOU'VE FOUND OUT PLEASSE!!

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

I feel the bells are about how life goes and changes; how every little thing can be taken and used in many ways. The bells are common, and used for many things, but look how different they are when used for these things. We are like that - we become different people depending on what we are doing or who we are talking to. That is what I think it is about. But, only my opinion.

-- Anonymous, April 13, 2000

The bells represent important events in a person's life. The Silver bells represent birth, but im not to sure on that one. Golden Bells represent the person's wedding day. I have no clue on the brazen. The iron bells represent a person's funeral.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2000

They almost work as the seasons when you analyze the lines comparing the nights.

-- Anonymous, May 02, 2000

The individual types of bells are different moods and occasions. They make up a complete emotional rollercoaster in one's life. The rhythm that seems to move at such a quick pace is representing that life. Life is spent so rapidly, it can cause confusion and seem unorganized altogether. Think of the sounds that all of those bells can make together. That is what one may hear when remembering the past life spent.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

The Bells has nothing to do with life. It's a story about an engagement (silver) and a wedding(golden) and how beautiful it is. That is until a fire breaks out (alarum) and everybody at the wedding dies (iron). Bummer

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2001

I took the meaning to be a somewhat mocking of the saying "Every time you hear a bell ringing an angel gets its wings" or more of the joy associated with bells in general, but the whole wedding disaster makes more sense. Didn't that happen at one of Poe's weddings?

-- Anonymous, February 11, 2005