Then the bells stir memories that bring misery.ĭid Poe have a fear of the ringing ending or fear that it would not end? The Bells build in tempo, a friendly relationship with the bells at first. No rhyme or reason, it was the chair’s time to go. It is a sequence of feelings, like an old favorite chair then one day replaced for a new one, or discarded for a vacant spot. Like life to death, it all ends up the same. Poe starts out liking the ringing and clamor, but things change like seasons. The story The Bells written in early spring, made Poe think of new life or recent death.
Seasonal changes just as life changes, winter to spring to summer and back again. Life is young to the natural progression of life being old. > From merriment to despair, is how The Bells go. How ironic that everyone thinks you’re dead, and you are the only one that knows you are alive. Poe obsessed with being buried alive, a phobia. The Bells written after his wife’s death, and ironically not published until after his death, showed the cycle of life. Poe’s work seemed to in some form or fashion swirl around dying. Poe knew what life was and could only guess at death. Poe speculated on the life and death cycle. Poe fixated on death, having no firsthand knowledge of what death was like. His life was irony his Mother died of Tuberculosis, as did his wife Virginia at the age of 25. Irony runs through all of Poe’s works it seems. The tolling of the bells were pointed out to Poe and in 1848 sat down and wrote The Bells. Poe had a cottage in Fordham New York a nearby university was believed to be the source of the ringing bells. Poe’s wife Virginia had died a year earlier and it appeared he had writers block caused by grief. The sounds of bells could be heard from Poe’s cottage, and the thought was they could be the inspiration for the poem.
Poe struggled to come up with a poem, and many thought he might be grieving the loss of his wife. Poe had submitted the poem several times before being published. The Bells was published in 1849 after Poe’s death. The bells by Edgar Allan Poe The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem believed to have been written in May 1848.
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