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Edgar Allen Poe has had an enduring effect on American and international literature and cinema. His work spans poetry, horror, science fiction, and he is largely credited as the inventor of the detective genre. For this assignment, I would like you to pick a couple of Poe's works and discuss their possible religious significance. You can choose like "The Raven" and "The Tell Tale Heart", or any 2 of Poe's works and write a paragraph about each explaining it and answering the religious significance! Thank you!
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THE RAVEN AND THE TELL TALE HEART
The Raven and The Tell Tale Heart
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The Raven and The Tell Tale Heart
In the poetry, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe talks about Ravens covert visit to a lover
and watch him slowly turn mad. The author signifies religious in various ways. One is that, as
the poem begins with a dark tone through words such as midnight dreamy. The author used these
words to describe them and symbolize the end of light, death and the end of life. Consequently,
the author stated that those who work for long hours could be sleepy and start seeing dreams,
visions, and nightmares.
Additionally, in December dying pagan times was known as the low point “dying time”
of the year. The door and the window were used to symbolize the entry from this world to the
next of the beliefs of reality in...
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