The Censer

The Censer

In the story Ligeia, there is a censer, which is an incense burner, that puts off light in the brides chamber where the narrator's second wife, Lady Rowena Trevanion, is dying. The narrator keeps seeing shadows from the light but there is nothing their. The light from the censer and the shadows are to signify his first wife's, Ligeia's, spirit which eventually takes over Lady Rowena Trevanion's body.

Ligeia by Edgar Allen Poe

Dustin Drew

Image Source: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.190.360

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