THE CITY IN THE SEA

PUBLICATION HISTORY

• "The Doomed City"
• "The City of Sin"
• Final publication 1845

POETRY STUFF

• Couplets, triplets
• Iambic tetrameter
• Alliteration (viol, violet, vine)
• Paradox (hideosly serene)
• Personification (Death)

INSPIRATION

• History of the Jewish Wars
• De Rerum Natura
• The Faerie Queene
• Kubla Khan

RECEPTION

• Plagiarism?

MEANING