In Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Bells, Poe tells how bells can play a part throughout death and this causes readers to dislike the poem but it also has a positive effect on readers when Poe tells of bells being used as symbols of love. ... In Edgar Allen Poe's ,The Raven, Poe uses a sense of darkness and evil throughout the poem by using the black bird as a symbol of evil. ... Also, in The Raven, Poe uses a black bird to symbolize evil and darkness. ... said I, "think of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil!" ... He began to write of death, evil, and darkness. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The poem "Incident," by Countee Cullen, is one that could be described as a piece of Lyric Poetry. This is because it is a short poem that focuses in on the emotion of the poem, not the speaker or the event as much. Cullen shows how the happy feelings at the beginning of the poem change drasticall...

• Word Count: 676
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This represents the evil side of the world Emerson saw. ... This poem which Emerson wrote in 1847, strongly draws on the Persian poet, Hafiz's, way of using "wine" as a symbol for intellectual freedom. ...

• Word Count: 602
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The two birds; "Hawk" and "Vulture", could be seen as symbols of heroism. ... Both poems create an idea of the arrogance, evil power, and cruel intentions of the two birds which gives us a negative image. ... In the "Vulture" however, the man's description of the bird's actions enable us to see that like the hawk, he does possess some evil power. ...

• Word Count: 1305
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The author then introduces the antagonists of the poem, the 'KKK', describing them as pure evil beings with 'hooded sheets, riding black cats'. The way Harjo describes them, the reader cannot be certain whether these 'evil beings' are humans or monsters. ... Unlike the song by Billie Holiday, also called 'Strange Fruit', Joy Harjo does not identify the 'strange fruit' in question, as a symbol of racial injustice. ...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The first possibility is that there is a force of evil at work that has created a "design of darkness to appall."... Fire, a symbol of passion, consumes and destroys quickly while leaving ashes in its wake. ...

• Word Count: 1104
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This poem is about the child praying to his mother, God and society to make the world a better place for him to live in without the current hazards. The child represents society and so when he says "I fear the human race", he is showing that he is afraid of his own kind and of himself, "me", the mo...

• Word Count: 2163
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Nature Imagery SYMBOL ANALYSIS There's a lot of nature in this poem. ... HEAVEN AND AFTERLIFE IMAGERY SYMBOL ANALYSIS When you die, you go to heaven, which will be like paradise. ... Just peep line 9: And think, this heart, all evil shed away.  ...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

Poe's Poems In personal appearance, Edgar Allen Poe was a quiet, shy-looking, but handsome man; he was slightly built, and was five feet, eight inches in height. His mouth was considered beautiful. His eyes, with long dark lashes, were hazel-gray. Poe's brain, on the other hand, worked on a ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School