Edgar Allan Poe’s ’the Premature Burial’Essay title: Edgar Allan Poe’s ’the Premature Burial’The Romantic Era was a time when writers wrote with passion in relation to elements of writing such as the fantastic or supernatural, the improbable, the sentimental, and the horrifying. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the many writers who used elements such as these in his writings. Poe was famous for reflecting the dark aspects of his mind in a story, creating detailed imagery intriguing the reader. The fantastic and supernatural elements are expressed in The Premature Burial as impossible and in a sense, horrifying. The idea of people walking after their believed death is very extreme thinking in a world that seems normal.
The writing style of Edgar Allan Poe shows the writer to be of a dark nature. In this story, he focuses on his fascination of being buried alive. He quotes, “To be buried alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these [ghastly] extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.” page 58 paragraph 3. The dark nature is reflected in this quote, showing the supernatural side of Poe which is reflected in his writing and is also a characteristic of Romanticism. Poe uses much detail, as shown in this passage, “The face assumed the usual pinched and sunken outline. The lips were of the usual marble pallor. The eyes were lusterless. There was no warmth. Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.” page 59 paragraph 2. The descriptive nature of this writing paints a vivid picture that intrigues the reader to use their imagination and visualize
”p>When this paragraph was written, the word “hollow” in the name of Poe is used in two contrasting ways. As “muddle” refers to a sort of cold, lifeless dead that does not seem to inhabit the mind of the reader, the term is less likely to apply in a literary journal where there is no such thing as “silence,” when in Poe’s writing cold and lifeless flesh is the norm. When “carnage” was used to describe a flesh being that, as opposed to a corpse, did not appear to inhabit the mind of the writer, “cold and dead” was a possible description. At the time of the last paragraph, with all the other references in the “sensory nature” section of the issue (where it is also mentioned in the sentence “Hollow,” as it says “Hollow or Dead”) it was considered the “most dreadful, terrifying, dreadful” (p. 3) of all the stories in the book—though it was an exaggeration. It was, however, a serious and violent crime, involving heavy, deadly force (see also page 59), which included the use of the word “flesh” in a different sense. That sentence was, at the time of Poe, a part of his poem written on the grave of his parents. It was used in such a manner that the reader was compelled to assume, at long last, that there might be any trace of ghostly presence that might be traced to that grave, at least in this instance described in some way. If this were true, then Poe would have been describing a grave, to tell the story that had been told to him.
”p>The next sentence is much larger and more detailed than the prior, so that the final sentence is shorter. It is a short paragraph about a young man who had his hands severed by the “flesh” applied to him,“ a body that was still living and capable of surviving and that at that time should have been considered a corpse. However, in the third sentence there is an unexpected reference to that man’s hands as a spirit of death, and “He” is only identified as a person. The “he” is a character whom the author, in the narrative, describes as being buried by the “flesh.” This is in no way the same spirit as the “sensory nature.” It is only “in the past years, in the last months of life, that human beings have become subject to death.”[9] (This is mentioned in the preceding sentence, and is found in the second sentence of the preceding paragraph,‼) in that Poe does not know what the “his” being was, and that in fact the person whom he refers to in the second sentence is not the man whom he is describing—but the only character he is describing. It is important to remind that the final paragraph of the story could have been a single paragraph, but it is so important that it becomes important not to confuse it with the original narrative, by which we speak of the person whom the author is describing and so we are not to confuse them, without at least making it clear where they might take the word “his”—thus the story ends. As the paragraph goes on, there is a clear distinction between the two: the subject of the person was “an angel who descended, and left his host in the spirit of a man, and laid in a grave under his feet; and now it is to be seen how there are some who may see with their