Write a brief (but complete) essay in which you explain (and prove with quotation) how Poe used the following elements in "Oval Portrait."
1) "writing backward" to achieve a specific effect
(2) the proper province of poetry and the province of prose
(3) proper lengthfor a poem
(4) most poetic tone
(5) most poetic subject
(6) the use of suggestiveness in poetryand metaphor used to provide an "undercurrent of meaning," and
(7) the emergence of the"emblematical," or symbolic, at the end.
(8) Give your theory of the theme.