Collection 2

1. Collection 2 By: Jason Bryce

2. Edgar Allan Poe • I believe that his type of writing was very disturbing. • This type of writing inspired others to express themselves in this way to: Marilyn Manson, Kid Rock and ICP, through these artist and movies like SAW we can still feel the affects of his type of writing today. • A couple hundred years ago he influenced people like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roderick Usher and Charles Dickens. • He used rhyme and assonance in his poem The Raven. • Rhyme- “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” • Assonance- “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain”

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne • He used symbolism in his writings, and he used some metaphor • Symbolism- “the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.” • Onomatopoeia -“One thing, thou that wast my wife, I would enjoin upon thee,” continued the scholar. “Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour. Keep, likewise, mine! There are none in this land that know me. Breathe not, to any human soul, that thou didst ever call me husband! • In his time he would have influence people like Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickenson and Sir Walter Scott. • He did not like puritans at all, he even disdained his own ancestors. • Some of the people that he influenced were Deborah Noyes, Kathy Acker, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

4. William Cullen Bryant • In his poem Mutation he uses metaphor and meter. • Metaphor- The welcome morning with its rays of peace.Oblivion, softly wiping out the stain,Makes the strong secret pangs of shame to cease. • Meter- Pain dies as quickly: stem, hard-featured painExpires, and lets her weary prisoner go.The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. • He writes about oblivion and happiness creating and sense of security and chaos. • Around that time he would have influenced people like Thomas Cole, Walt Whitman, and Tremaine McDowell. • He would have influenced people like SAW, Queen of the Damned and Sci-Fi. Movies that in beginning look bad but then at the end turn at good.

5. Herman Melville • He used alliteration and consonance in his poems. • Alliteration- “Who inhabiteth the MountainThat it shines in lurid light,And is rolled about with thunders,And terrors, and a blight,Like Kaf the peak of Eblis--Kaf, the evil height?Who has gone up with a shoutingAnd a trumpet in the night? • Consonance- “Might assaulteth Might;'Tis the fastness of the Anarch,Torrent-torn, an ancient height.” • He wrote about what might have been occurring in his time. • Things that he might have influenced around now would be the song “The Saints are Coming,” stuff about 9/11, and • Then he might have influenced people like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harrison Hayford and Merton Sealts Jr.

6. Ralph Waldo Emerson • He used figure of speech and rhythm in his poems. • Rhythm- A moody child and wildly wisePursued the game with joyful eyes,Which chose, like meteors, their way,And rived the dark with private ray • Figures of speech- Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. • I believe that he considered the people that were high up and rich as disgusting souls. • Then he would have influenced people like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Langfellow. • Around now he would have influenced people like middle class, hippies, and anyone who believes that the rich are snobs.

7. Bibliography • http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/bryant_william_cullen.html • www.wikipedia.org • http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/look-out_mountain.html