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The Writing Brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe

             Lawrence wrote an essay that extensively describes Edgar Allan Poe's writing style. Lawrence looks at Poe's work as a scientific and mechanical way of writing. The tales Poe writes are not really tales at all. The only reason they are even considered as tales is because they are a concatenation of cause and effect. Lawrence saw Edgar's stories as more than just a tales. They are love stories. Poe does not write looking at the human part of someone's life. The characters are looked at as inanimate objects with human qualities, rather than the characters being human with inorganic qualities. Lawrence elaborates on Poe's style by mentioning that he finds it to be mechanical. Poe never sees anything in terms of life. He only views life in terms of matter or force, thus the Lawrence's reference to scientific writing. This facile viewpoint on life brings out his sensitiveness to sounds and effect. Lawrence also believes that Edgar Allen Poe was a very deep man. He wrote with his soul. Poe gives you a look at what is underneath consciousness. His writing is all fair-spoken on the surface. Beneath it is more, the awful murderous thoughts that flowed inside Edgar's head. .
             Lawrence confers about Poe's style in "Logia" and how he wants to analyze her until he knows all of her parts and what they do. He sees her as a chemical salt, which he needs to analyze out in the test tube of his own brain. Overall Lawrence finds Edgar Allen Poe's works to be mechanical and scientific. .
             Poe has a different style of writing from any other. It is an inanimate type of writing. This makes his works interesting and suspenseful. If Poe did not have this type of style he would not be as well known today. Edgar uses his obscure styles to create his visual stories. The Tell Tale Heart is mechanical and scientific in the way that Edgar Allen Poe has written it.
             Edgar's mechanical style is evident in the way he describes the eye of the old man.


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