In regard to the depth of the water, I could not see how this could have been ascertained at all in the immediate vicinity of the vortex. It was just seven,by my watch, when we weighed and started for home, so as to make the worst of the Strm at slack water, which we knew would be at eight. Of foam there was little except in the immediate vicinity of the rocks. The "little cliff," upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and slippery edge -- this "little cliff" arose, a sheer unobstructed precipice of black shining rock, some fifteen or sixteen hundred feet from the world of crags beneath us. The mountain trembled to its very base, and the rock rocked. A Descent into the Maelstrm. It's been several years since I read this but I remember it felt flat: Poe simply tells a story and makes no effort to up the terror or to create tension. I knew what he meant by that one word well enough -- I knew what he wished to make me understand. You really see and hear the fellows drawn into the eye of the storm and you feel the rage of the elements. This book is in near mint condition with a bump on the side of the back cover. timeline | Do you hear any thing? The little cliff, upon whose edge he had so carelessly thrown himself down to rest that the weightier portion of his body hung over it, while he was only kept from falling by the tenure of his elbow on its extreme and slippery edge this little cliff arose, a sheer unobstructed precipice of black shining rock, some fifteen or sixteen hundred feet from the world of crags beneath us. "We Norwegians call it the Moskoe-strm, from the island of Moskoe in the midway." These, no doubt, were singular fancies to occupy a man's mind in such extremity -- and I have often thought since, that the revolutions of the boat around the pool might have rendered me a little light-headed. After a little while I became possessed with the keenest curiosity about the whirl itself. I knew very well that we were doomed, had we been ten times a ninety-gun ship. forum, gallery | Here, the simultaneous attraction and repulsion that is a central dynamic of the maelstrom the brothers are drawn towards it but must try to resist its pull stands for mans often conflicted attitude to God and the divine. The appearance of the ocean, in the space between the more distant island and the shore, had something very unusual about it. credits | Very descriptive but the story within a story doesnt quite work. The sky is completely black in the storm. Edgar Allan Poe (A Descent into the Maelstrom - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story) . Her starboard side was next the whirl, and on the larboard arose the world of ocean we had left. He is also the author of the New York Time's bestselling novel DESCENT (2015, Algonquin), the story collection IRISH GIRL (2009, UNT Press), and the YA novel NEVER SO GREEN (2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Descent: Directed by Nays Baghai. The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy. The rays of the moon seemed to search the very bottom of the profound gulf; but still I could make out nothing distinctly, on account of a thick mist in which everything there was enveloped, and over which there hung a magnificent rainbow, like that narrow and tottering bridge which Mussulmen say is the only pathway between Time and Eternity. With Kiki Bosch, Stefan Andrews, Mikael Koski, Wim Hof. The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy. It was impossible to reach him; the emergency admitted of no delay; and so, with a bitter struggle, I resigned him to his fate, fastened myself to the cask by means of the lashings which secured it to the counter, and precipitated myself with it into the sea, without another moments hesitation. I would not have believed that any wave could rise so high. Dutch ice freediver Kiki Bosch swims in the world's coldest waters without a wetsuit as therapy for a trauma she experienced, and to inspire others. This opinion, idle in itself, was the one to which, as I gazed, my imagination most readily assented; and, mentioning it to the guide, I was rather surprised to hear him say that, although it was the view almost universally entertained of the subject by the Norwegians, it nevertheless was not his own. We had now been about ten minutes upon the top of Helseggen, to which we had ascended from the interior of Lofoden, so that we had caught no glimpse of the sea until it had burst upon us from the summit. Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. {js=d.createElement(s); Descent into the Maelstrom (2019) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. This hope arose partly from memory, and partly from present observation. It likewise happens frequently, that whales come too near the stream, and are overpowered by its violence; and then it is impossible to describe their howlings and bellowings in their fruitless struggles to disengage themselves. Around in every direction it was still as black as pitch, but nearly overhead there burst out, all at once, a circular rift of clear sky -- as clear as I ever saw -- and of a deep bright blue -- and through it there blazed forth the full moon with a lustre that I never before knew her to wear. A Descent Into The Maelstrom. It stood like a huge writhing wall between us and the horizon. As the old man spoke, I became aware of a loud and gradually increasing sound, like the moaning of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term thechoppingcharacter of the ocean beneath us, was rapidly changing into a current which set to the eastward. But moment after moment elapsed. Its force gradually subsided, and some fishermen rescued the white-haired man. !function(d,s,id) With the wind that now drove us on, we were bound for the whirl of the Strm, and nothing could save us! We had let our sails go by the run before it cleverly took us; but, at the first puff, both our masts went by the board as if they had been sawed off the mainmast taking with it my youngest brother, who had lashed himself to it for safety. "You must get over these fancies," said the guide, "for I have brought you here that you might have the best possible view of the scene of that event I mentioned -- and to tell you the whole story with the spot just under your eye." The maelstrm is incredible, forming a vast hole, roaring and shrieking far more loudly than Niagara Falls, and shaking the mountain from which they watch. "This," said I at length, to the old man -- "this can be nothing else than the great whirlpool of the Maelstrm." Thank you very much for reminding me, Poe. At first I was too much confused to observe anything accurately. This mist, or spray, was no doubt occasioned by the clashing of the great walls of the funnel, as they all met together at the bottom but the yell that went up to the Heavens from out of that mist, I dare not attempt to describe. The narrator, seeing the power of the whirlpool in the ocean visible from the mountain top, is then told of the man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago in which they encountered the whirlpool. "Our first slide into the abyss itself, from the belt of foam above, had carried us a great distance down the slope ;but our farther descent was by no means proportionate. It was the hour of the slack but the sea still heaved in mountainous waves from the effects of the hurricane. The usual grounds are a great way lower down to the southward. We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Strm was in full fury! A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe This is a short story about a man who tells how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. We set out with a fresh wind on our starboard quarter, and for some time spanked along at a great rate, never dreaming of danger, for indeed we saw not the slightest reason to apprehend it. In this direction I was able to obtain an unobstructed view, from the manner in which the smack hung on the inclined surface of the pool. This was most unusual -- something that had never happened to us before -- and I began to feel a little uneasy, without exactly knowing why. Much better than expected! They say too that the whole expression of my countenance had changed. Everything was in its place but my own mind as it tried hard to wander the streets of Boston in its desperate attempt to figure out a way to celebrate this man's literary genius. Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. credits Just opposite the promontory upon whose apex we were placed, and at a distance of some five or six miles out at sea, there was visible a small, bleak-looking island; or, more properly, its position was discernible through the wilderness of surge in which it was enveloped. How often we made the circuit of the belt it is impossible to say. "For some moments we were completely deluged, as I say, and all this time I held my breath, and clung to the bolt. But since Marie Bonapartes (now largely derided) analysis of Poes life and work in the 1930s, A Descent into the Maelstrom has also been analysed in light of Freudian psychoanalysis: the whirlpool represents the eddies and currents of sexual desire, threatening to overwhelm us. The sense of falling had ceased ;and the motion of the vessel seemed much as it had been before, while in the belt of foam, with the exception that she now lay more along. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old"You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. Since my escape, I have had several conversations on this subject with an old school-master of the district; and it was from him that I learned the use of the words cylinder and sphere. He explained to me although I have forgotten the explanation how what I observed was, in fact, the natural consequence of the forms of the floating fragments and showed me how it happened that a cylinder, swimming in a vortex, offered more resistance to its suction, and was drawn in with greater difficulty than an equally bulky body, of any form whatever. And yet all the morning, and indeed until late in the afternoon, there was a gentle and steady breeze from the south-west, while the sun shone brightly, so that the oldest seaman among us could not have foreseen what was to follow. As it was, I involuntarily closed my eyes in horror. You have had a good look at the whirl now, said the old man, and if you will creep round this crag, so as to get in its lee, and deaden the roar of the water, I will tell you a story that will convince you I ought to know something of the Moskoe-strm.. Director Terry Cunningham Writer Michael Konyves Stars Absolutely recommended! Be the first to contribute! Descent is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay Productions in 1995 for MS-DOS, and later for Macintosh, PlayStation, and RISC OS. Taking the narrator to a cliff, from whose top they can view the whirlpools and the great Maelstrom (or major whirlpool), this white-haired man relates how he and his two brothers were caught in the Maelstrom while in their fishing boat, and how his two brothers were both sucked into its current. Poe's short story is exciting and suspenseful as the fisherman tries to save himself from certain death from this violent force of nature. Although, at the time, so strong a gale was blowing landward that a brig in the remote offing lay to under a double-reefed trysail, and constantly plunged her whole hull out of sight, still there washere nothing like a regular swell, but only a short, quick, angry cross dashing of water in every direction as well in the teeth of the wind as otherwise. In a few minutes more, there came over the scene another radical alteration. Much like people who claim to have had near-death experiences in which they have seen the other side, the white-haired man experienced, and survived, something that nobody else had. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clungto the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. It had run down at seven oclock! This obviously has relevance to the maelstrom in Poes story.). In Scandinavia, there is a phenomenon known as the Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen, a system of tidal whirlpools found in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county (in Norway) between the Norwegian Sea and the Vestfjorden. "I no longer hesitated what to do. Her starboard side was next the whirl, and on the larboard arose the world of ocean we had left. This book is in near mint condition with a bump on the side of the back cover. I must have been delirious -- for I even sought amusement in speculating upon the relative velocities of their several descents toward the foam below. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. -- lib. I was borne violently into the channel of the Strm, and in a few minutes was hurried down the coast into the grounds of the fishermen. "Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. A singular change, too, had come over the heavens. 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." No one ever will know what my feelings were at that moment. Descent into the Maelstrom and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. But for this circumstance we should have foundered at once -- for we lay entirely buried for some moments. Such a hurricane as then blew it is folly to attempt describing. The storm comes She was quite upon an even keel -- that is to say, her deck lay in a plane parallel with that of the water -- but this latter sloped at an angle of more than forty-five degrees, so that we seemed to be lying upon our beam-ends. I was borne violently into the channel of the Strm, and in a few minutes was hurried down the coast into the 'grounds' of the fishermen. The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became momently less and less steep. "No one ever will know what my feelings were at that moment. My eldest brother had a son eighteen years old, and I had two stout boys of my own. This hope arose partly from memory, and partly from present observation. Both are part of a 1960, fifteen story collection, "The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales." It was not going. We put the boat on the wind, but could make no headway at all for the eddies, and I was upon the point of proposing to return to the anchorage, when, looking astern, we saw the whole horizon covered with a singular copper-colored cloud that rose with the most amazing velocity. Looking down from this pinnacle upon the howling Phlegethon below, I could not help smiling at the simplicity with which the honest Jonas Ramus records, as a matter difficult of belief, the anecdotes of the whales and the bears; for it appeared to me, in fact, a self-evident thing, that the largest ship of the line in existence, coming within the influence of that deadly attraction, could resist it as little as a feather the hurricane, and must disappear bodily and at once. By this time the first fury of the tempest had spent itself, or perhaps we did not feel it so much, as we scudded before it, but at all events the seas, which at first had been kept down by the wind, and lay flat and frothing, now got up into absolute mountains. I glanced at its face by the moonlight, and then burst into tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity. These are the true names of the places but why it has been thought necessary to name them at all, is more than either you or I can understand. At the same moment the roaring noise of the water was completely drowned in a kind of shrill shriek such a sound as you might imagine given out by the waste-pipes of many thousand steam-vessels, letting off their steam all together. The idea generally received is that this, as well as three smaller vortices among the Ferroe islands, "have no other cause than the collision of waves rising and falling, at flux and reflux, against a ridge of rocks and shelves, which confines the water so that it precipitates itself like a cataract ;and thus the higher the flood rises, the deeper must the fall be, and the natural result of all is a whirlpool or vortex, the prodigious suction of which is sufficiently known by lesser experiments." The force has arisen, presumably, If I had not known where we were, and what we had to expect, I should not have recognised the place at all. International delivery varies by country, please see the Wordery store help page for details. Director Neil Marshall Writer Neil Marshall Stars Shauna Macdonald descent (dsnt) n. 1. the act, process, or fact of descending. I now began to watch, with a strange interest, the numerous things that floated in our company. But this 17 page short story is just before Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which I am eager to read! descent , , descent : 1. the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the. Farther off between Moskoe and Vurrgh are Otterholm, Flimen, Sandflesen, and Stockholm. Many of Edgar Allan Poes tales focus on protagonists who find themselves in trouble because of their own behaviour: so the murderer in The Tell-Tale Heart is driven mad by his own guilt (or, depending on how you read that ambiguous story, by the supernatural beating of his victims heart beneath the floorboards), while the cat-killer in The Black Cat also brings his subsequent haunting and bad luck upon his own head through his cruelty to his pet. I'm reading in order so, what the heck! For some moments we were completely deluged, as I say, and all this time I held my breath, and clung to the bolt. Since my escape, I have had several conversations on this subject with an old school-master of the district ;and it was from him that I learned the use of the words 'cylinder' and 'sphere.' If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by the wind and spray together. In a very few minutes it had gone from choppy, you know the usual, to become a whirlpool of vast proportions with a roar greater than Niagara! It was not going. By this time the first fury of the tempest had spent itself, or perhaps we did not feel it so much, as we scudded before it, but at all events the seas, which at first had been kept down by the wind, and lay flat and frothing, now got up into absolute mountains. You can read A Descent into the Maelstrom here before proceeding to our summary and analysis below. I attracted my brother's attention by signs, pointed to the floating barrels that came near us, and did everything in my power to make him understand what I was about to do. I love that this is based on an actual whirlpool in Norway. The story Poe weaves out of this natural phenomenon is highly suggestive, leaving itself open to numerous interpretations. the submarine's descent After only an hour of flight, the pilot announced our descent. 'To be sure,' I thought, 'we shall get there just about the slack -- there is some little hope in that' -- but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all. This opinion, idle in itself, was the one to which, as I gazed, my imagination most readily assented ;and, mentioning it to the guide, I was rather surprised to hear him say that, although it was the view almost universally entertained of the subject by the Norwegians, it nevertheless was not his own. In truth so deeply was I excited by the perilous position of my companion, that I fell at full length upon the ground, clung to the shrubs around me, and dared not even glance upward at the sky -- while I struggled in vain to divest myself of the idea that the very foundations of the mountain were in danger from the fury of the winds. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Pingback: A Summary and Analysis of Edgar Allan Poes Hop-Frog Interesting Literature. When the stream is most boisterous, and its fury heightened by a storm, it is dangerous to come within a Norway mile of it. Actions that would make C. Auguste Dupin and Mr Spock proud. It was mere instinct that prompted me to do this -- which was undoubtedly the very best thing I could have done -- for I was too much flurried to think. Although, at the time, so strong a gale was blowing landward that a brig in the remote offing lay to under a double-reefed trysail, and constantly plunged her whole hull out of sight, still there was here nothing like a regular swell, but only a short, quick, angry cross dashing of water in every direction -- as well in the teeth of the wind as otherwise. The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. A Descent into the Maelstrom By Edgar Allan Poe noise being heard several leagues off, and the vortices or pits are of such an extent and depth, that if a ship comes within its attraction, it is inevitably absorbed and carried down to the bottom, and there beat to pieces against the rocks; and when the water relaxes, the frag- When I could stand it no longer I raised myself upon my knees, still keeping hold with my hands, and thus got my head clear. Poe learnt about the maelstrom from several sources, which included an 1834 story in Frasers Magazine titled The Maelstrom: A Fragment. The maelstrom, in its supernatural force, is a warning to man that he is helpless in the face of this outer world that can converge upon him at any moment, without warning. The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways ; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, Is it just that: the force of nature, what we might following Edmund Burke label the Sublime, the terror and awe of something in the natural world that is bigger and more powerful than man? These would have been of great assistance at such times, in using the sweeps, as well as afterward in fishing -- but, somehow, although we ran the risk ourselves, we had not the heart to let the young ones get into the danger -- for, after all is said and done, it was a horrible danger, and that is the truth. On a fishing trip with his brothers a storm arose fuelled by the most powerful and wicked hurricane that ever erupted from hea. The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe book. It had run down at seven oclock! Suddenly -- very suddenly -- this assumed a distinct and definite existence, in a circle of more than a mile in diameter. That of Jonas Ramus, which is perhaps the most circumstantial of any, cannot impart the faintest conception either of the magnificence, or of the horror of the scene or of the wild bewildering sense ofthe novelwhich confounds the beholder. stories | The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. A singular change, too, had come over the heavens. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. It is recognized as the second most powerful whirlpool in the world. This there was no great difficulty in doing; for the smack flew round steadily enough, and upon an even keel only swaying to and fro, with the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. The story is told by an Old Norwegian fisherman to a tourist at the top of a very tall mountain. "We kept the smack in a cove about five miles higher up the coast than this ;and it was our practice, in fine weather, to take advantage of the fifteen minutes' slack to push across the main channel of the Moskoe-strm, far above the pool, and then drop down upon anchorage somewhere near Otterholm, or Sandflesen, where the eddies are not so violent as elsewhere. "Between Lofoden and Moskoe," he says, "the depth of the water is between thirty-six and forty fathoms ;but on the other side, toward Ver (Vurrgh) this depth decreases so as not to afford a convenient passage for a vessel, without the risk of splitting on the rocks, which happens even in the calmest weather. As we approached the brink of the pit he let go his hold upon this, and made for the ring, from which, in the agony of his terror, he endeavored to force my hands, as it was not large enough to afford us both a secure grasp. I must have been delirious, for I even sought amusement in speculating upon the relative velocities of their several descents toward the foam below. * See Archimedes, "De Incidentibus in Fluido." When I find a Poe Im not crazy about, I find my judgement is rather harsh. Here the vast bed of the waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion heaving, boiling, hissing gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling and plunging on to the eastward with a rapidity which water never elsewhere assumes except in precipitous descents. 2. a downward inclination or slope. With their small fishing ship in the grip of this nightmarish phenomenon, the hero discovers himself to be in the grip of a force, parallel to that of the Maelstrom, equal in strength, which has arisen from within him. Twice, during six years, we were forced to stay all night at anchor on account of a dead calm, which is a rare thing indeed just about here; and once we had to remain on the grounds nearly a week, starving to death, owing to a gale which blew up shortly after our arrival, and made the channel too boisterous to be thought of. The depth in the centre of the Moskoe-strm must be immeasurably greater ;and no better proof of this fact is necessary than can be obtained from even the sidelong glance into the abyss of the whirl which may be had from the highest crag of Helseggen. A maelstrom is a whirlpool: the word dates from at least the sixteenth century and was formed from Dutch words malen (meaning grind) and stroom (meaning stream). 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