Interpretive Essay On Edgar Allan Poe's Works

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has so greatly changed after the death of a dear sister. In depth he explores the character, "..the physique of the gray walls and the turrets and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about the morale of his existence." Poe uses both animate, and inanimate objects as if they were one in the same. In Stephen King’s The Shining, he explores the madness that one man goes through when secluded in the wilderness alone with his family in a hotel haunted by it’s past residents. His seeming familiarity with Jack (the father of the family) gives the reader such imaginative insight into the mind of an insane alcoholic, that you forget all else while reading about his tirades with the manipulative "un-dead". Such work is merely signature for these men.
The use of allusion in an author’s work provides a basic structure for them to place their ideas upon that the reader is already familiar with. Both Edgar Allan Poe, and Stephen King make allusions to ...

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