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A 3 page paper which examines the romantic and the supernatural in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” and Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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romance is far more than that. It involves mysteries and adventures and the unknown. This is where supernatural comes into play in relationship to romance in literature. Romance and supernatural
elements speak of images that are all but presented in a manner that is innocent and simple, as well as haunting and dark. The following paper examines these elements as
seen in Edgar Allen Poes "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Washington Irvings "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in relationship to how the authors use these genres to engage the reader. Poe
and Irving At first glance Poes "the Tell-Tale Heart" and Irvings "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" may appear to have nothing in common. But both present the reader with images of
romance as well as the supernatural. In Irvings story the narrator states, "In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history...Ichabod Crane; who sojourned...in Sleepy
Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity" (Irving). In this the reader is presented with a romantic and nice vision of a small town and a
seemingly simple man. In Poes story, though clearly darker and more sinister from the beginning, one sees the romance of adventure to some extent when the narrator states, "Never
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). These are romantic words that offer
images of a brave individual, although the bravado is involved with a pointless murder by a madman. Both stories offer different perspectives of romance, with the understanding that romance
is, as mentioned, adventure, the unknown and mysteries clothed in many disguises. Then comes the element of the supernatural, which again is presented differently in the two stories. In Poes
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