Edgar Allan Poe "A Descent Into the Maelstrom"
Edgar Allan Poe
The story is about an old man who reveals that he only appears old – “You suppose me a very old man,” he says, “but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves.” The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the “old” man’s fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago.
Text Analysis: Unique words: about 1,100 Total words: about 2,085
Hard words: descent, maelstro whirlpool, guide, cliff, tide, foa amazement, pit, steadily, mast, barrel