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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Bells'

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In “The Bells”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe is presents an individual that endures life through the presence of bells. In “ Fire and Ice”, Robert Frost is discussing that the world will end either in fire or ice. Last but not least, “A Road Not Taken” is talking about that there are two roads and that person have a choice to choose which road to go on either the good road or the bad one. In “The Bells” its shows that his wife died in a fire, “what a tale of terror” and as her husband tried to help it was no way that he could get into the house. Therefore, if he found a way to get in the house it's a better chance thdt him and his wife could still be with each other, maybe rebuild a house. However, the love one thinks the world is

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