—about “to Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe”

Edgar Allan Poe uses descriptive words to metaphor his abstract feeling and sets a gloomy tone for the whole poem.  He describes his drifting mind as roaming in the cypress forest, and his anger and endless grief as the lava rolling down the mountain toward the end of the world.  He described the moon, the stars, the dawn, as if to bring hope, but everything is just a delusion. He used “hasten” to imply his panic, “fly” to describe the eager to escape, and “wings” “trailed in the dust” to describe his struggle and surrender.  These are all used by the author to visualize his psychic state of depression.

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