Edgar Allan Poe?s ?The Philosophy of Composition? :: essays research papers

Shortly aft(prenominal) Edgar Allan Poe had completed his masterpiece, The Raven and sold it for $15 in 1845, he compose an essay entitled The school of thought of Composition. In the essay, he claims that piece of music a poem was a methodical process, much like solvent a mathematical problem. Poe emphasized that a poem should be assholevass and enjoyed in one sitting, thus concluding that a poem should be around 100 lines long (The Raven was 108 lines long). Poe also states that his method of compose a poem consists of writing it backwards. Each section of the poem relies heavily upon alliteration and alternating interior rhythms.      Poe used a method to draw in to both popular and critical tastes by hitting upon the most melancholy of all subjects the dying of a beautiful woman. "The deathof a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world and every bit is it beyond the doubt that the lips best suited for such topic a r those of a bereaved lover". Of all the themes, he chose death, because it was an emotion that everyone can relate to. Poe believed that the most poetic use of the theme death was the death of a beautiful woman. Having the theme and subject planned out, he serene his poem backwards, adding uses of the word nevermore. The alliteration of nevermore builds tension, stanza by stanza. Poe valued to create poetry of feeling, to be able to relate the reader with the narrator.      However, it has been suggested that The Philosophy of Composition was a hoax, and it is unlikely that it is an account of his poem, The Raven. Scholars are speculative because he enjoys revealing his secrets a little too much in that he loved to explain and analyze his writing skills.