Happy and depressing bells

     Tinkle tinkle tinkle goes the merry bells, bells of alarms make clangs and crashs, and bells of death has a more melancholy menace of a tone. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells" tells of the happy and depressing times that bells put people through. The four different type's of bells each have their own characteristics: sleigh bells, wedding bells, fire bells, and death bells.
     The happiness of the sleigh bells brings a thought of the bells on christmas day, and waking up to open the gifts and merriment of family and friends. The wedding bells has a more mature set of joy where two people join and spend the rest of their lives together. However both bells tell of two great joys that happens everyones life.
     The harsh sound of fire bells does not sound that someone has lost their life, but rather they have lost they're home and personal possesions. The bells of death are nothing but pure terror that the person who may have died could have been your husband, child, wife, or friend. Neither bell has even a pulse of happiness that could lift you spirits.
     There are more bells than just these four, but these are the most common that show the two sides of what bells can tell. Even though Edgar only tells of four types, he still tells much about each of them and what they signal.