Response #8: Mood vs Tone

Edgar Allen Poe saw the world as a cruel, dark, lonely, and perverness world. His tone was dark, disgust, loneliness, and evil. If he wanted the story to be depressing he would do exactly that. He'll have the imagery, diction, and mood. He wants the audience to feel what he wants them to feel. To him he didn't see the world all happy or cheerful, he saw a living hell for him. Like in the story Raven, how he describe that the main character lost his love and how he try's to distract himself by reading a book and the mood for the audience is sad and depressing. That's his tone for the audience. Later on when the Raven kept saying 'never more' meaning his soul won't go to heaven where his love is at. It becomes more dark and more depressing than it was. Or the story The Tell Tale Heart, the main character was crazy and all about him thinking that his father's eye was evil. That set a mood for the audience to feel awkward and uncomfortable because of the situation. It's not normal for a person to think that this oerson's eye is evil and they have to kill it. Also in his stories he makes it like he's talking to you and it makes it more uncomfortable because he's telling you these crazy things.However Edgar does make a point in his stories, like how loneliness will make you go crazy or how we all have a 'beast' inside us. All these dark stories he had wrote, the characters in his stories we all have bits of pieces of their personalities inside of us.