The disturbing glow of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems come from all of the detail and symbolism that goes into them. ... In "The Masque of the Red Death," Poe uses symbolism through the colors of the rooms, the clock that counts down time, and the characters at the ball in order to discuss man's eventual appointment with death. ... (Poe 269) Every hour, the clock would go off and the masqueraders would stop and listen and then carry on with whatever they had been doing before (Poe 270). ... All fear this form and hope that they aren't who he's looking for. ......

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When we think about stories that are titled 'romantic' we think about love stories and intimate romance novels, but that is not what they are talking about in the American Romantic Period. Edgar Allan Poe was an american poet considered a part of the American Romantic Movement that seemed to carry a message of gothic literature and romanticism in his works. ... Later, he wrote his most popular poem "The Raven" in hopes that the result would be a creepy poem that is very clear of the symbolism he wanted to use. ... The information we get is secret information, which is the ...

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("Edgar Allan Poe, Symbolism in His Works). ... It was not until after his marriage to Virginia that things seemed to start getting better for Poe. ... They loved each other so much that they could not imagine life without the other. ... He says that her highborn kinsman carried her away from him. ...

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