Taken from Light into Darkness
... literary arts to emplace couplets in the poem “ Dream Land.” His descriptive writing transforms the reader from light to darkness, such as “route obscure and lonely, haunted by ill angels only, bottomless vales, boundless floods and chasms, caves, titan woods, lakes that thus outspread, their lone waters, lone and dead.” His creative style flows endlessly with the smoothness of a current in a stream. Poe’s choice of words entices and seduces the imagination to become part of the poem. A creative extortionist of words, Poe constructed a flow that encourages the mind to travel several avenues throughout the poem. The reader’s mind ventures upon metaphors that are mentioned in the poem “Dream Land,” with words such as “By a route obscure and lonely, Out of space-out of time, their lone waters, lone and dead.” He wrote with an open-agenda style to his poems. This helps conjure up the reader’s deepest imagination. Traveling down the corridor with Poe, a reader cannot visualize what is bestowed beyond the next corner. He created a style that made reading his work tolerable. Poe’s Gothic style raises questions concerning which side of life he was living. He spoke of “ Ill angels, black throne, ultimate dim Thule, skies of fire, murmuring lowly, by the swamp,...