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A 6 page paper which examines the relationship between the individual and nature, the spiritual questions Poe raises in these stories, and how these questions seem to be answered by these stories and others. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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solving it. He was perversely attracted to the dark side, like an obsessed scientist seeking to know that, for whatever reason, remains elusively unknown. Perhaps Poe knew instinctively
that his time was limited and he needed to chart a frenetic course of spiritual discovery before it was too late. For Poe and all other writers of the
nineteenth-century Romantic genre, an individual could only find the answers to lifes questions in nature. In the elements, his mind could scale peaks or plunge to depths that might
otherwise be unimaginable. Nature looms large in two of Poes most mystifying short stories, "MS Found in a Bottle" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom." These stories, reportedly
written eight years apart, are remarkably similar in terms of language, plot, and theme, with male characters embarking on journeys only to find themselves teetering a precipice between the known
(the natural world) and the unknown (the spiritual world). What happens when they desert one for the other? What price (if any) must be paid? Both tales
feature male characters that have life-changing experiences aboard a mystery ship. They are virtually isolated from others at their respective moments of revelation. Each of these stories begins
with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Found in a Bottle," there is a quote from the French play Atys: "Qui na plus quun
moment ? vivre / Na plus rien ? dissimuler," which can be translated to mean, "He who does not have another moment to live / Has nothing more to hide"
(Poe 73). This informs the reader that the individuals experience in nature will result in death. The epigraph in "A Descent into the Maelstrom" features a quote by
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