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ords and groups of words that have a range of reference beyond their literal signification or denotation. Poems sometimes create a symbol out of a thing, action, or event that has no previously agreed upon symbolic significance. In the following poem, for example, a raven is given symbolic significance. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "It is some visitor," I muttered," tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more."[12] Throughout Edgar Allan Poe's life, many factors have contributed to the development of writing style and influenced it. He lived a difficult life, because he was raised in a dysfunctional household. But the final product of Poe's mind is printed in his short stories and poems. In a great short story The Tell-Tale Heart ,the narrator doesn't hate the man who going to kill, he hates the fake eye. The eye represents evil, and Poe converts everything to black and white. Likewise in The Black Cat, the husband in the story was particularly cruel and unjustic to the cats. The cats were probably representing Poe when he was defenseless and young. 3.2 The feature-irony is used in Poe's works The second main difference between Poe and Meng Jiao is that Poe's poems employed irony. Irony[13] is not so much an element of fiction as a pervasive quality in it. It may appear in three ways: in the work's language, in its incidents, or in its points of view. But in whatever forms it emerges, irony always involves a contrast or discrepancy between one thing and another. The contrast may be between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen. To see a poem of Poe: Israfel[14] If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than this might swell From my lyre within the sky. This is irony of circumstance or situation- in which we understand the opposite of what a speaker says. Besides this kind of irony, there exits another figure which called is ironic vision. Some writers exploit the discrepancy between what readers and characters know to establish an ironic vision in a works. So does Poe. What is ironic vision? An ironic vision is established in a work as an overall tone that suggests how a writer views his or her characters and subject. For the moment, however, let's consider whether the tone is sufficiently ironic to display an ironic vision of Poe's The Black Cat: For the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not- and very surely do I not dream. [15] 3.3 The feature-sound is used in Poe's works The third main difference between Poe and Meng Jiao is the sound used in Poe's poems. The most familiar element of poetry is rhyme, which can be defined as the matching of final vowel and consonant sounds in two or more words. When the corresponding sounds occur at the ends of lines we have ended rhyme; when they occur within lines we have internal rhyme. The opening stanza of Poe's The R