Alone By Edgar Allan Poe Essay

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity,” claimed Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is an original writer who is regarded as the father of horror. His originality stems from his deranged imagination. As seen in his works “Alone”, “Romance”, and “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe’s dark style is developed through atypical themes and imagery to create a demented point of view. In the story “The Cask of Amontillado” and the poem “Alone,” Poe shows several gloomy themes. For instance, one of these themes is evident by hatred expressed in the beginning of “The Cask of Amontillado.” The narrator, Montresor, says “I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser,”(Poe 1). The dark, stylistic text foreshadows that Montresor will later reveal another theme, which is revenge. Revenge is one of Poe’s many wicked exhibitions. One stanza in the poem “Alone” reveals Poe’s crazy themes. The poem summarizes how Edgar A. Poe was less fortunate and different than other kids during his childhood. The stanza says, “My sorrow -- I could not awaken My

One example of dark imagery is when Montresor refers to the walls as “the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls,” in “The Cask of Amontillado”(Poe 2).The nitre, represented by the “web”, is used as a snare for Fortunado. The reference toward Fortunato's murder, goes to show, Edgar Allan Poe uses his wide imagination to separate himself from other authors. Secondly, the poem “Romance”, a writing about his disappointing life, shows an example of dark imagery through the reference to ‘chaos in heaven’. Chaos in heaven is inferred by Poe when he says “So shake the very Heaven on high With tumult as they thunder by...”(Poe 12). All of these quotations confirm that Edgar Allan Poe has mastered the imagery of shadow and