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The Bells – A Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells,” the speaker progressively hears different types of bells, each representing a distinct stage of life, starting with joyful silver sleigh bells, moving to golden wedding bells, then transitioning to alarming brass bells signifying danger, and finally concluding with mournful iron funeral bells, illustrating a descent into darkness and the inevitability of death through the changing sounds of the bells. 02:06.

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The Bells and a bit of its history

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