The Black Cat/ The Raven

I thought that the story was very crazy and disrupting because it was violent. Poe seemed to be "going to the dark side" in this story. It demonstrates well how the Narrators anger go worse and worse. He starts out just hitting the animals, then kills Pluto, and then kills his wife. He just gets worse and worse until he finally gets caught always like it when a story wraps things up well. I could definitely tell that this story was not transcendentalism.

This quote refers to the was Poe thought "I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition. I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my way." This indicates that he was quite out of his mind.

I thought that the poem was quite hard to understand towards the middle and the end but in the beginning it was easy to understand. As I read the poem I could almost sense the way Poe was going through during this poem. There were a few lines that stood out to me like "Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful DisasterFollowed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden boreOf 'Never--nevermore.'" I thought this part was kinda confusing.