An explication and commentary on Poe's "Premature Burial"

"The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allen Poe is a brilliant work of true rhetorical mastery. Poe utilizes such strategies as vivid description and aims this passage at a wide array of readers. Poe's purpose is quite exceptional. He directs the essay mostly towards the non-believers of premature burial. He has developed this composition in order to argue his views about the topic and to persuade others into accepting them. Another and possibly more significant intention …showed first 75 words of 326 total…

…showed last 75 words of 326 total…illustrating the scene of the investigation. He assisted the reader in visualizing her struggle to break free of the coffin and then her futile efforts to escape the ironwork inside the tomb. He truly paints a picture in the psyche of the reader. Edgar Allen Poe is an accomplished author who is a specialist at applying rhetorical instruments to his writings. This fact is clearly demonstrated in his concise, yet informative passage, "The Premature Burial."