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Lyric, Ode, and Elegy

·         Lyric

A kind of expository progression which causes a poem to become more emotionally profound as it proceeds from beginning to end is the progression found in lyrics. A lyric is usually stanzaic (or written in stanzas), and euphonic, having sweet sounds which please the ear. Consequently, all love poems are lyrics.

Ode and elegy are two varieties of lyric. They are usually longer than lyrics and have more complex pattern of thought and feeling. Therefore, they should be read carefully and thoughtfully.

Ø  Ode

"Ode" comes from the Greek aeidein, meaning to sing or chant, and belongs to the long and varied tradition of lyric poetry. Originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments, the ode can be generalized as a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present.

There are three typical types of odes: the Pindaric, Horatian, and Irregular. The Pindaric is named for the ancient Greek poet Pindar, who is credited with inventing the ode. Pindaric odes were performed with a chorus and dancers, and often composed to celebrate athletic victories. The Horatian ode, named for the Roman poet Horace, is generally more tranquil and contemplative than the Pindaric ode. Less formal, less ceremonious, and better suited to quiet reading than theatrical production, the Horatian ode typically uses a regular, recurrent stanza pattern. The irregular ode was created by Abraham Cowley in the 17th Century. The Irregular ode imitates the Pindaric ode style of serious subject matter, but abandons the repeated triad structure and allows each stanza to be individual in its creation. Stanzas vary in number of lines, line length and rhyme scheme.

Ø  Elegy

An elegy is a poem of mourning; this is often the poet mourning one person, but the definition also includes Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', which mourns all the occupants of that churchyard, and looks into the future to mourn the poet's own death. The difference between an elegy and a eulogy is that the latter is a speech given to honour someone's best qualities, often (but not necessarily) after their death.

The Black Cat Analysis

THE BLACK CAT

1.     Synopsis of Story

The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator. He is a condemned man at the outset of the story. The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large black cat named Pluto. This cat is especially fond of the narrator and vice versa. Their mutual friendship lasts for several years, until the narrator becomes an alcoholic. One night, after coming home intoxicated, he believes the cat is avoiding him. When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye.

From that moment onward, the cat flees in terror at his master's approach. At first, the narrator is remorseful and regrets his cruelty. "But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of perverseness." He takes the cat out in the garden one morning and hangs it from a tree, where it dies. That very night, his house mysteriously catches fire, forcing the narrator, his wife and their servant to flee.

The next day, the narrator returns to the ruins of his home to find, imprinted on the single wall that survived the fire, the figure of a gigantic cat, hanging by its neck from a rope.

At first, this image terrifies the narrator, but gradually he determines a logical explanation for it, that someone outside had thrown the dead cat into the bedroom to wake him up during the fire, and begins to miss Pluto. Some time later, he finds a similar cat in a tavern. It is the same size and color as the original and is even missing an eye. The only difference is a large white patch on the animal's chest. The narrator takes it home, but soon begins to loathe, even fear the creature. After a time, the white patch of fur begins to take shape and, to the narrator, forms the shape of the gallows.

Then, one day when the narrator and his wife are visiting the cellar in their new home, the cat gets under its master's feet and nearly trips him down the stairs. In a fury, the man grabs an axe and tries to kill the cat but is stopped by his wife. Enraged, he kills her with the axe instead. To conceal her body he removes bricks from a protrusion in the wall, places her body there, and repairs the hole. A few days later, when the police show up at the house to investigate the wife's disappearance, they find nothing and the narrator goes free. The cat, which he intended to kill as well, has also gone missing.

On the last day of the investigation, the narrator accompanies the police into the cellar. They still find nothing. Then, completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comments on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around his wife's body. A wailing sound fills the room. The alarmed police tear down the wall and find the wife's corpse, and on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screeching black cat. As he words it: "I had walled the monster up within the tomb!".

2.     Intrinsic Element of Story

A.      Character

• The Narrator (unnamed character)

• The narrator’s wife

• Pluto

• The second cat

B.      Characterization

• The Narrator = is an abusive, bully and a murderer

He made home a living hell for his wife, pets, and himself. He's writing to us from his prison cell, on the eve of his scheduled death by hanging. In addition to the details of his heinous crimes, he reveals his psychological transformation from nice-guy to villain. He tells us that around the time he murdered his wife, all "good" had been driven from his personality

And he doesn't seem to be confessing out of a sense of guilt. Over the course of the story, the narrator provides several reasons for his various behaviors. But mostly he seems to be blaming the cat (or cats) for all his problems. According the narrator, it's the cat's fault that the domestic scene of the story ultimately turned so foul. This seems to be his real point in telling us the story.

• The narrator’s wife = kind, giving, loyal, and even heroic at the end

The narrator says she has "in a high degree, that humanity of feeling which had once been [his] distinguishing characteristic." She is a highly sympathetic character, in her own right. The fact that the narrator abuses her, and her beloved pets, makes her even more sympathetic, and makes us think that the man is a complete bad guy.

• Pluto = black cat, large, fuzzy, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.

Sagacious is a cool word to know. It means extremely wise, intelligent, and perceptive. Over the years Pluto moves from a pampered pet to an abused beast. He is blinded and ultimately murdered by his owner.

• The second cat = black cat, looks almost exactly like Pluto.

He's big, black, and missing an eye. The only difference is the white spot. The spot starts off innocently enough, but then grows into an image of the gallows, if the narrator can be believed.

C.      Setting

• Place

The Narrator’s home.

• Time

Unknown, when and where (the map of Narrator’s house) the story happened.

There was no specific time for the story.

• Atmosphere

Frightful and mysterious, because The Narrator did a bad action to his cat and his wife, and then he hid it from other people. 

D.     Plot

• Initial action

§  Exposition

When the narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large black cat named Pluto. This cat is especially fond of the narrator and vice versa. Their mutual friendship lasts for several years, until the narrator becomes an alcoholic.

§  Inciting moment

When the narrator coming home intoxicated, he believes the cat is avoiding him. When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye.

§  Rising action

When the Narrator killed Pluto in the morning at the garden with hung it from the tree.

• Middle action

§  Complication

When the narrator’s house catches on fire in the night after murdered Pluto in the morning. The narrator, his wife, and his servant escape the flames. All the family's financial security goes up in smoke. And then, when the Narrator found the similar cat with Pluto in the tavern and he took it at home.

§  Climax

When The Narrator killed his wife, because she stopped him to kill the cat which similar with Pluto. And then to conceal her body, he removes bricks from a protrusion in the wall, places her body there, and repairs the hole.

• Last action

§  Falling action

When the police show up at the house to investigate the wife's disappearance, they find nothing and the narrator goes free. The cat, which he intended to kill as well, has also gone missing.

§  Denouement

When the police found the Narrator’s wife corpse with the black cat on her head by tear down the wall. At the time, the Narrator said, that he had walled the monster up within the tomb.

3.     Extrinsic Element of Story

A.      Author = Edgar Allan Poe

Author’s Biography

Edgar Allan Poe was born on 19 January, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, to actors David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold. Edgar was the middle child, with an elder brother Henry and a younger sister Rosalie. When he was just a year old, his father abandoned the family, and two years later, his mother passed away from tuberculosis. After her death, Henry went and lived with his grandparents, and Rosalie was taken in by another family. Edgar was adopted by a wealthy Scottish tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan from Richmond, Virginia. It is said that, as a mark of respect, Edgar took up 'Allan' as a middle name, and henceforth came to be known as Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe's biography is an account of a great man's life. He gave the world the first detective or horror genre, and created the concept of short stories. Some of Edgar's famous writings are:

§  The Raven: The Raven is a narrative poem published in 1845, and is probably one of the best-known poems of the nineteenth century

§  The Fall of the House of Usher: The House of Usher was published in 1839, and is one of the best works by Edgar Poe.

§  The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Murders in the Rue Morgue was published in 1841, and is said to be the first detective story ever.

§  The Tell-Tale Heart: The Tell-Tale Heart was published in 1843, and is still regarded as one of the best Gothic fiction stories ever written.

On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found drunk and unconscious on the streets of Baltimore, in someone else's clothes. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died four days later on October 7, 1849. He was just 40 at the time. Although different reasons were given for his death, the actual cause still remains a mystery.

B.      Social condition

At the time, people who did a crime, tried to hid their evils from other people with did the strange action. And that action made a mystery in the middle of society.  

4.     Moral Message

The moral messages that we get in this story are:

•  First, we must love everything around us, not only for human, but also animals and plant.

• Second, don’t ruin or destroy ours without clear reason. 

• Third, no matter how good we hide our crime, on a certain day it will be known by other people.

5.     Conclusion

The fire that destroys the narrator’s house symbolizes the narrator’s "almost complete moral disintegration". The only remainder is the impression of Pluto upon the wall, which represents his unforgivable and incorrigible sin.

Reference

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/the-black-cat.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/edgar-allan-poe-biography.html

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