Narrative in Poetic Sound, Form and Meaning: Melancholy in Poe’s Poem of “Ulalume”

Abstract

 “Melancholy” has been one of the most typical themes in Allan Poe’s literary works, and is also vividly represented in the Poe’s poem of “Ulalume”. This article is going to analyze the “melancholy” in Poe’s “Ulalume” with the three-dimensional narrative approach from poetic sound, form and meaning, and demonstrate how Poe represents the theme of “melancholy” aurally, visually and mentally.