I NEED HELP!!! I NEED CRITIQUES ON THE BELLS AND THE HAUNTED PALACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I NEED TO FIND CRITIQUES ON THESE POEMS ASAP. IF YOU KNOW WHERE I CAN LOOK OR HAVE SOME FOR ME , PLEASE LET ME KNOW, THIS IS MUY IMPORTANTE!!!!!!!!!! GRACIAS

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

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I need help on critiques on Poe 's work

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

I take it you mainly want a comparison? The four part poem "The Bells" moves through spritely wonder to marital bliss and bright future, to the disaster of a fire and then funereal tolling with trolls haunting the belfry. The same decaying progress is seen in "The Haunted Palace" that begins with the idyllic kingdom and its music and beauty, moves to a disater from "creatures robed in sorrow and finally to the dead, haunted state where the palace is full of mirthless ghosts. Both have this story quality and message of blighted hope ending in ghoulish haunting and menace, from beauty to a shuddering dirge.

Now The Bells is much more a poem of sound, onomatopoeia, repetition itself tolling the mood. The Haunted Palace is a more visual ballad but with lutes, Echoes singing and ghostly laughter, it too relies on sound to set the mood. How the transformations of the beautiful sounds of various kinds of bells progress is masterful. Mood, music and significance are mixed. In The Haunted Palace(included in the usher tale) it poeticizes the theme of the fallen mind(the two windows= the eyes)so much that it symbolizes the body and house of Usher, a major philosophical theme of the entire story. So that poem becomes a brilliant use of a poem as a devive in the story, building on the tragedy of former happier times to the present horrible doom.

Now the demons left in the ruins are interesting whether trolls, ghouls devil in the belfry or "demons down under the sea" perhaps going back to a childhood recollection of being affrighted by a cloud that seemed a demon shape. The worms are more real than the angels, more tangible and present than the stars of Hope. Such is the earthly state of affairs and Poe's own tragic life whatever escapes to a happier afterlife.

This is brief. Look at symbols, go line by line dividing progressive parts from happy beginnings to the end results.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2001


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