Edgar Allan Poe

[Cerod]

I just wanted to know, and why/how do you find Poe's work's dull?

Little use of poetic devices(metaphors, personification, similes, hyperboles etc. etc.)

It doesn't awake images in my mind effectively/

[Oterro]

Shakespeare is a big no-no for me. Although, his stories may have had meaning in his time, for me, they are cryptic and nonsensical. Until I stumbled upon this thread, I knew of Poe, but I only knew one of his poems.

really, anyone with a vocabulary above average shouldn't struggle with shakespeare, most versions of his work usually come with annotations for anything that is restricted to the era - the language isn't.

[Fintanland]

And is it wrong of me that I read the title as Edgar Allan Pope?

Is there - is there chance for reform? - tell me - tell me - I implore/Quoth the pontiff: "Nevermore".

[Cetacea]

I just wanted to know, and why/how do you find Poe's work's dull?

Little use of poetic devices(metaphors, personification, similes, hyperboles etc. etc.)
/

AH, broken is the golden bowl!
The spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll! — A saintly soul
Glides down the Stygian river!
And let the burial rite be read —
The funeral song be sung —
A dirge for the most lovely dead
That ever died so young!
And, Guy De Vere,
Hast thou no tear?
Weep now or nevermore!
See, on yon drear
And rigid bier,
Low lies thy love Lenore!

[Imperial--japan]

My dear dear Annabell Lee.....

[Winland]

I like the one about bells.

I

Hear the sledges with the bells-
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!

III

Hear the loud alarum bells-
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor,
Now- now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows:
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells-
Of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells,bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

IV

Hear the tolling of the bells-
Iron Bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people- ah, the people-
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All Alone
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone-
They are neither man nor woman-
They are neither brute nor human-
They are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells-
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells-
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells-
Of the bells, bells, bells:
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells-
Bells, bells, bells-
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

[Quanadia]

Do you mean "The Bells"?

The Bells (click to read)

[Cerod]

Little use of poetic devices(metaphors, personification, similes, hyperboles etc. etc.)
/

AH, broken is the golden bowl!
The spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll! — A saintly soul
Glides down the Stygian river!
And let the burial rite be read —
The funeral song be sung —
A dirge for the most lovely dead
That ever died so young!
And, Guy De Vere,
Hast thou no tear?
Weep now or nevermore!
See, on yon drear
And rigid bier,
Low lies thy love Lenore!

I said little use of poetic devices.

[The Lotus Eaters]

My fave EAP short story is the Masque of red death, is beautiful and has alot of hidden meanings, lmost of his work. Ive been studying poes life and works forever and comingup with my own theories on how he disappeared.

[Unified Chiodos Fans]

I've read the Raven a few times but I'm really interested in more of Poe's stuff. Anyone got some suggestions?

[Conserative Morality]

The Conqueror Worm!

I've read the Raven a few times but I'm really interested in more of Poe's stuff. Anyone got some suggestions?

The Masque of the Red Death.

[Cetacea]

I've read the Raven a few times but I'm really interested in more of Poe's stuff. Anyone got some suggestions?

Tell tale Heart, The Black Cat, Fall of the House of USher

[Quanadia]

I've read the Raven a few times but I'm really interested in more of Poe's stuff. Anyone got some suggestions?

Look at this nation's factbook Jolliwanker, it is only about Poe.

[Jassysworth 1]

Tell-Tale Heart and Cask of Amontillado.

Short, fun to read dark short stories with murder...

[Pravengria]

I loved his "The Raven"

Same

[The Lotus Eaters]

I've read the Raven a few times but I'm really interested in more of Poe's stuff. Anyone got some suggestions?

The Raven was definatelyon of EAPs best works but i would suggest:
"The Angel of Odd"
"Ligeia"
and "The Gold Bug"

[Connahkstan]

Al Aaraf. Because I just read it today.

[Shaggai]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. One of the best, most timeless trolls of all time.

[Islamic Republic e Jariri]

The one with Pluto the cat, because of the irony

The Black Cat