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Literary Elements in "The Bells"

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The Bells Poem by Edgar Allen Poe

The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe

Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale

“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe is one of his more well-known poems. It is most often interpreted as an allegory for the seasons of life, from the beautiful silver bells of youth to the frightening iron church bells that toll old age and death.




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The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe Literary Elements - alliteration examples

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  • ONOMATOPOEIA
  • ALLITERATION
  • PERSONIFICATION
  • ”How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, / In the icy air of night!”
  • “Runic rhyme”
  • ”For every sounds that floats / From the rust within their throats / Is a groan.”
  • ASSONANCE
  • LITERARY ELEMENTS
  • IMAGERY
  • ”What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!”
  • “Yet, the ear distinctly tells, / In the jangling, / And the wrangling, / How the danger sinks and swells, / By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells--”

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