Edgar Allan Poe uses live burial, the death of a beautiful young woman, and narrators haunted by some guilt or loss to the point of madness the way that Taco Bell uses ground beef, refried beans, and cheese. This isn't exactly a diss, but he really does squeeze an impressive number of crowd-pleasing combinations out of the same few ingredients.
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12th December
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe’s long poem takes the festive bells of a merry winter night and, by the end, turns them into clanging iron chimes of terror, in the hands of ghoulish monsters. Only some of the poem follows below, but it is worth reading in full as it grows to an almost insane climax.
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The Bells
Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the Heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinambulation that so musically swells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
…
And who, tolling, tolling, tollling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone -
They are neither man nor woman -
They are neither brute nor human,
They are Ghouls:-
And their king it is who tolls:-
And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls,
A Paen of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
…
Of the bells, bells, bells -
To the sobbing of the bells:-
…
Poe was a master of the gothic, taking every day situations and infusing them with darkness, horror and madness. His stories and poems continue to fascinate and terrify to this day.
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