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A 3 page paper which examines the tone and style of Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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stand today as legendary and influential writers, for one reason or another. The following paper examines the two, comparing and contrasting their style, tone, thematic and symbolic content, and lives.
Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson For anyone familiar with horror stories, or psychological thrillers, the name Edgar Allen Poe is well known. For those who are truly
involved in poetry Emily Dickinson is equally well known. They are, in other words, two individuals who are powerful, even today, in their particular genre of writing. While Poe did
write poetry, like Dickinson, he was primarily a short story writer. Dickinson wrote poetry. While at first one would say that the two had nothing in common in relationship
to their work, upon closer examination there are very obvious relationships. These connections may well come from the fact that both of these individuals suffered a sense of isolation in
their lives. Dickinson was something of a recluse who never married and withdrew from the public while Poe was a man who was believed to be a very depressed alcoholic.
There is, however, evidence of late that indicates Poe had a disease wherein he was allergic to alcohol and thus became very ill, and different, when drinking. The point is
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darker side of themselves and perhaps humanity.
In Poes works there is usually a narrator who presents themselves as one who is reliable, but in a way that informs the reader he is not reliable and is
perhaps mentally disturbed. One would not necessarily believe such a style or tone, or theme, could be present in Dickinsons work but the following lines, from one of her poems,
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