Figurative Language In The Black Cat

Symbolism is used in many of Edgar Allan Poe stories to portray a hidden message or to reveal deep hidden meanings. Some symbolisms used in his stories include the “Raven” and “The Man of the Crowd.” Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism in “The Man of The Crowd” and “The Raven” to set a dark atmosphere upon the themes of death, seek and discovery and even the good, Heaven---? The narrator and main character in Poe 's story use hidden messages to represent death. Death can be symbolized in many aspects through both creatures and setting.

There is always something that bothers us in life, whether it’s others or even our own conscious. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator has a difficult time following through with his cruel acts because a part of him knows it’s truly wrong. Throughout the story, his crimes bring more tension between him and the old man. Suspense is created with his every move, leaving readers hanging on the edge of their seats. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe builds suspense by using symbolism, inner thinking, and revealing information to the reader that a character doesn’t know about.

In the story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, he uses syntax and diction to build suspense. An example of this is when the narrator is in the doorway to the bedroom of the old man who he wants to kill. At midnight, he accidentally alerted him, and the narrator can hear what he thinks is the “hellish tattoo of the heart increasing. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder, and louder every instant” (85). The phrase “hellish tattoo” means awful drumming, in this case, the awful beating of the heart.

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Night's Plutonian shore!" In this demand Poe levels the raven with that of the underworld and the grim horrors that go on down there (Poetry Foundation). The Night represents all that is dark and mysterious. Plutonian refers to the Roman god Pluto who reined over the Underworld. The Shore can be an allusion to the banks of the River Styxx or River Acheron that you arrive on after death in Greco-Roman mythology.

When the raven perches in his chamber it signifies death is coming for him. It’s almost

For example, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth mentions that “the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements” before her husband murders King Duncan. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” a raven provokes a lonely man’s descent into insanity. The choice to use raven feathers on Hagravens, as opposed to white or colorful feathers, clearly illustrates the creators’ effort towards designing a bird-like monster that emanates

Most of the narrations like in "The Black Cat" give a sense of irrationality. Hatred, melancholy, woe and distress, his characters rely more on the human side showing their mental state, taking his stories to have a bigger impact on the reader’s minds. This is attributed to the period where his works were written, as stated earlier. Poe’s usage of resources like dark atmospheres, messing around with the time in which the story is represented, this was most commonly used to alter reader’s ideas of the perfection and the beauty and divert them more to the contemporary side. He liked to mix different settings with times who were most likely to confuse the reader’s perception of it, making his stories more suspenseful.

Coetzee uses complex sentences that makes you stop and think. He is passionate and writes so vividly one is left in a daze. His writing strikes deep within our hearts and is very memorable. The quote I picked shows a beautiful example of his complex and powerful writing. The writing is on a deeper level and is forcing his readers into haunted places of their own minds.

He uses a lot of figurative language when describing the setting of his writings. He also uses extensive detail to describe the thoughts and images he is seeing. An example of this was describing in great detail the gruesomeness of his character in the story, Tell-Tale Heart. King, however, is said to possess more gore and thrill in his writings. kIng writes more about mythical creatures and monsters than King.

Fear pervades the entire story, and it is poe 's manifestation of this within the text that has influenced me to write my short story based off the sole concern of fear. The Tell Tale Heart hinges on the narrators demented fear of the old man’s eye which is evident as he says “He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold”. Poe utilizes symbolism to characterise the old man 's eye as one of a vultures, to symbolise death as the eye perhaps ‘preys’ on the narrator, driving him crazy, which prompts him to kill the old man, due to his deep fear of the eye. Poe also makes use of personification in “Blood ran cold” to indicate that the narrator is seized by an acute and intense sensation of fear whenever the eye looks at him.

“There the corpse stood before our eyes. It had already greatly decayed and covered with gore. On its head, with an open, red mouth, and one single eye of fire, sat the beast. It was the same horrible animal that had tricked me into murder.” In the story “The Black Cat,” by Edgar Allan Poe, the subject of the story is how you should control your perverseness.

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.” ― Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe lived a very depressing life full of sadness and death, which reflects throughout his poetry. Everyone he loved or was somewhat close to died so he felt that he could never get remotely close to anyone.

Edgar Allan Poe creates this menacing tone by the repetition and description of his senses. In the killing the narrators explains that the eye of the old man is the reason why he killed him in the first place .The description of the old man’s “eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with an film over it. Whatever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees”(1). The senses of the narrator helps to bring on the mood of menace into the story.

In “The Raven,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as imagery and symbolism. Poe uses these devices to portray the somber mood of the poem. This mood is shown when Poe says, “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” The narrator is fearful of life without his wife and knows he will never be able to get over her death. Throughout the poem the narrator agonizes over the pains he is having with the loss of his wife.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” suspense is created through the reoccurring use of repetition which, conjures up feelings of unease in the readers. The speaker is clearly unstable. The speaker who is “nervous-very,very dreadfully nervous”(1) throughout the story repeatedly asks the reader “How, then, am I mad?”(1), then goes on to justify his actions. The reader understands that the fear in the speaker is building up, but do not know the reason why. With an unstable speaker the readers are not certain if what is being told is true or just in the speaker’s mind.