This is significant as these images of heat and life contrast dark and sombre images such as the “ dim lake,” and ultimately show a contrasts between life and death, the effect of this is that it emphasises how the narrator and perhaps Poe where changed after experiencing the death of a loved one. Death is symbolised through the image of an “alley Titanic, of cypress,” which could be interpreted as physically representing the nightmarish terrors hidden in the narrators limbic region in the form of purgatory. This image is oppressing as it describes how the narrator is submersed in an alley of trees, which emphasises that there is only one way to go, therefore creating a sense of foreboding, as death is inevitable. Also cypress trees are specifically mentioned as they link to death due to the fact that coffins are made from this type of wood. Nick Dear’s adaptation of Frankenstein can link to Ulalume by Poe due to the similar technique of contrasting Frankenstein’s feelings through a literary platform of
This is significant as these images of heat and life contrast dark and sombre images such as the “ dim lake,” and ultimately show a contrasts between life and death, the effect of this is that it emphasises how the narrator and perhaps Poe where changed after experiencing the death of a loved one. Death is symbolised through the image of an “alley Titanic, of cypress,” which could be interpreted as physically representing the nightmarish terrors hidden in the narrators limbic region in the form of purgatory. This image is oppressing as it describes how the narrator is submersed in an alley of trees, which emphasises that there is only one way to go, therefore creating a sense of foreboding, as death is inevitable. Also cypress trees are specifically mentioned as they link to death due to the fact that coffins are made from this type of wood. Nick Dear’s adaptation of Frankenstein can link to Ulalume by Poe due to the similar technique of contrasting Frankenstein’s feelings through a literary platform of