In four parts, Poe explores the various uses of bells – moving from the marriage celebration to the funeral, from “the jingling and the tinkling” in part 1 to the “moaning and the groaning” in part 4.
It was in this poem that Poe coined the word “tintinnabulation” - the word you frequently see when you look up “onomatopoeia” in the dictionary as this linguistic device’s most celebrated illustration. “ The Bells” is a poem that puts Poe’s aural and linguistic skills front and center – the way the words sound in the mouth is already like a song, with the rhythm and timbre of the poem reflecting their topic. In April of 1846, Poe moved away from Greenwich Village for the last time – up to the Bronx, though once his beloved wife died, he moved around frequently until his death in Baltimore. Another move, to 83 West Third Street, produced a second-edition update to The Raven and brought the author relative fame. John’s Graveyard, a melancholy setting, which must have appealed to his romantic nature. This house was located across the street from St. On Carmine Street, Poe wrote The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Gold Bug. (l.) 85 West 3rd Street, the Edgar Allan Poe House prior to demolition by NYU, and (r.) with its facade recreated and embeded into NYU’s Law School Building, not unlike Poe’s ghoulish story “The Cask of Amontillado,” photo courtesy of NYPAPīy the spring of that year they had already moved to 113-1/2 Carmine Street. They did not have an auspicious start to their time in the Village, though Poe was an attendee of Ann Charlotte Lynch Botta’s famous literary salon for a time, which helped him to launch his literary career. In February of 1837 Poe arrived in New York, and took up his residence in a no-longer-standing house at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place with his wife Virginia and her mother. Probably the most romantic and tragic figure in American literature in the first half of the nineteenth century was Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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