Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells"

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This paper explains how Poe uses imagery in "The Bells" to emphasize mood and meaning. The paper also explains how the imagery in the poem not only reflects the mood of the poet, but also represents the stages of life that he finds shocking and terrifying.

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"The poet introduces us to the pleasing sound of the bells in the first stanza. He tells us, "What a world of merriment their melody foretells" (Poe 3). The silver bells also fill the "icy air of night" (5) with a "crystalline delight" (8). The poet also says the stars keep time "in a sort of Runic rhyme/To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells" (10). The images of the bells jingling and tinkling in the night air give us a pleasant image of the bells. In this stanza, they represent happiness and joy."

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