In "Ulalume" Poe's darkness has not been affected much at all by the loss of his wife. As is common in many of Poe's works, there is an abundance of dark imagery to be found here. Poe sets a dark mood right from the start of the poem. He describes the setting in particular somber means. He writes that the "skies were ashen and sober" (Poe, "Ulalume" line 1). Poe spends the remainder of that first stanza sett

It is easily apparent how this treatise emphasizes Stanton's desire to hold the 1st Women's Rights Convention. She writes, "Now, in view of this entire disenfranchisement of one-half the people of this country [...] we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States" (Stanton 2114). Quite simply, Stanton felt slighted-and rightly so-by the unfair and unequal treatment that women received under the law in the United States even though it was heralded as a new land of freedom and equality. In her mind, to exclude half the population from political and social agency was intolerable and needed to be rectified at once. In this spirit, Stanton wrote "Declaration of Sentiments" and created the 1st Women's Rights Convention. The former expresses the philosophical outrage that women felt in American society, while the latter was the first act of political organization that attempted to give political voice to the disenfranchisement of women. "Declaration of Sentiments," then, is an important document in the struggle for the political voice of women in the United States.

In writing "Declaration of Sentiments," a philosophical tract that described the unjust position of women in American society, Elizabeth Cady Stanton drew upon the stylistic conventions of an existing political treatise. As a model, Stanton wrote her "Declaration of Sentiments" based on the "Declaration of Independence," a fact that made the plight of women seem all that much more unjust and the treatise all that much more popular. This was a clever move on Stanton's part, because it immediately allied the position of women in America with the position of the American settlers under British rule, still relatively fresh in the public mind.

ing this dark mood, relying on similar turns of phrase. Poe also repeatedly returns to dismal descriptions of the area, at one point explaining that his protagonist was walking through "ghoul haunted woodland" (Poe, "Ulalume" line 9). And yet, through it all, Poe is driving his character towards a particular dramatic moment in which we can see the effect of his wife's passing.

As in the previously discussed poem, Poe's narrator in this piece does not seem to be able to get over the loss of his beloved companion. In what is perhaps a bit of poetic excess, the narrator in "Annabel Lee" describes his world without his love as one in which "the

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