Finally in the last stanza, the happiness, and tension give way to death.
70 Hear the tolling of the bells--.
71 Iron bells!.
72 What a word of solemn thought their monody.
73 compels!.
74 In the silence of the night,.
75 How we shiver with affright.
76 At the melancholy menace of their tone!.
The iron bells, heavy and slow, make a sound that is gloomy and is connected with the .
sound of a funeral. (Napierkowski 50) These bells, the poet explains, are being rung by the ghosts, and the king of ghouls who are happy about the deceased that they will be taking charge of:.
88 They are ghouls--.
89 And their king it is who tolls:--.
90 And he rolls, rolls, rolls,.
91 Rolls.
92 A paean from the bells!.
93 And his merry bosom swells.
94 With the paean of the bells!.
"The Bells" begins with a happy thought, but ends with a sad one. As the bells moan and groan" the poem is telling us that the bells have supernatural control over people"s thought that extend beyond memories of past situations." ( 52) .
" The City in the Sea" explores Death through mythological representation of the underworld. In the underworld of Hades, Death rules. .
Garofalo 3.
1 Lo! Death has reared himself a throne.
2 In a strange city lying alone.
3 Far down within the dim West.
4 Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best.
5 Have gone to their eternal rest. .
In Hell, Heaven does not have an influence, in line 29, "Death looks gigantically down.".
The word "melancholy" appears several times in the poem and reinforces the gloomy depressing environment, making it possible for the listener to be saddened by "melancholy waters" in lines 11 and 25. In this poem, the poet has created a dreamlike setting where Death has control. .
Three well-known poems, "Ulalume," "Lenore," and "Annabel Lee" are obviously about young women, and certainly about the death of those women. "Ulalume," the scene is in the autumn, just before the dawn.
