The Premature Burial
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The Premature Burial
* Death, agony, fear, and horror are just a few words one could use to describe the majority of the works by Edgar Allan Poe.
* Poe describes in first person narration, the tortures a man goes through because of his fear of live burial.
* The man suffers from catalepsy and would sometimes go into long states of lethargy.
* It would be unjust to say that The Premature Burial does not live up to that standard. The title, The Premature Burial leaves little to the imagination as to what the reader is about to embark on, but what the title alone can’t convey is the amount of terror involved in Poe’s horrific vision of literally being buried before ones time.
* It is a chilling short story that is presented in the early to mid 1800s, told in the first person narrative.
* The Premature Burial is unique because it ends oddly on an up beat, a twist not found in most Poe tales. This short story achieves the effect of taking the reader to his deep and damp grave and permitting the reader to see the darker side of reality, a trait for which Poe has become so famous.
* The Narrator, who assumes no name, begins by setting the mood by discussing with the reader the fascinations humans have of reading true accounts of horrible events such as the Plague of London and the Earthquake at Lisbon.
* The Narrator continues on to say, that even though people would like to read them, there are some themes that are too horrible, too perverse for people to actually print.
* One of these truths is premature burial, a phobia the Narrator suffers from intensely which is evident after the first page. The Narrators reason for his strange phobia is due to a disease that he is afflicted with, known as catalepsy.
* This disease causes a person who appears to be in normal health to slowly slip into a coma. The slips in and out of conciseness are rarely forewarned and duration can be just as unpredictable in its manner. The mild...
* Death, agony, fear, and horror are just a few words one could use to describe the majority of the works by Edgar Allan Poe.
* Poe describes in first person narration, the tortures a man goes through because of his fear of live burial.
* The man suffers from catalepsy and would sometimes go into long states of lethargy.
* It would be unjust to say that The Premature Burial does not live up to that standard. The title, The Premature Burial leaves little to the imagination as to what the reader is about to embark on, but what the title alone can’t convey is the amount of terror involved in Poe’s horrific vision of literally being buried before ones time.
* It is a chilling short story that is presented in the early to mid 1800s, told in the first person narrative.
* The Premature Burial is unique because it ends oddly on an up beat, a twist not found in most Poe tales. This short story achieves the effect of taking the reader to his deep and damp grave and permitting the reader to see the darker side of reality, a trait for which Poe has become so famous.
* The Narrator, who assumes no name, begins by setting the mood by discussing with the reader the fascinations humans have of reading true accounts of horrible events such as the Plague of London and the Earthquake at Lisbon.
* The Narrator continues on to say, that even though people would like to read them, there are some themes that are too horrible, too perverse for people to actually print.
* One of these truths is premature burial, a phobia the Narrator suffers from intensely which is evident after the first page. The Narrators reason for his strange phobia is due to a disease that he is afflicted with, known as catalepsy.
* This disease causes a person who appears to be in normal health to slowly slip into a coma. The slips in and out of conciseness are rarely forewarned and duration can be just as unpredictable in its manner. The mild...