Director Talia Lugacy Writers Brian Priest Talia Lugacy Stars Rosario Dawson Chad Faust Marcus Patrick When I find a Poe I like, I really like it. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. We were now in the belt of surf that always surrounds the whirl; and I thought, of course, that another moment would plunge us into the abyss down which we could only see indistinctly on account of the amazing velocity with which we were borne along. Confession time, science fiction is not my thing, instead the unpredictability of real life continues to fascinate in both fiction and non. The story of how he was caught during a storm in a maelstrom three years earlier with his brothers and how he survived. the cask of amontillado. Descent into the Maelstrom and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The horrific tale is laid out by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - "You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. Exterior scenes were filmed at Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire, and in Scotland. "It may look like boasting -- but what I tell you is truth -- I began to reflect how magnificent a thing it was to die in such a manner, and how foolish it was in me to think of so paltry a consideration as my own individual life, in view of so wonderful a manifestation of God's power. "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. "There was one startling circumstance which went a great way in enforcing these observations, and rendering me anxious to turn them to account, and this was that, at every revolution, we passed something like a barrel, or else the yard or the mast of a vessel, while many of these things, which had been on our level when I first opened my eyes upon the wonders of the whirlpool, were now high up above us, and seemed to have moved but little from their original station. The attempts to account for the phenomenon some of which, I remember, seemed to me sufficiently plausible in perusal now wore a very different and unsatisfactory aspect. If I had not known where we were, and what we had to expect, I should not have recognised the place at all. I suppose it was despair that strung my nerves. I'm reading in order so, what the heck! Inspired by the Moskstraumen, tidal eddies and whirlpools in northern Norway which are real, the story is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. Descent: Directed by Nays Baghai. descent n (physical) descente nf : From the airport, Catherine watched the plane's descent onto the runway. Be the first to contribute! "Not long ago," said he at length, "and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons ;but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man -- or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of -- and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul. The choice spots over here among the rocks, however, not only yield the finest variety, but in far greater abundance ;so that we often got in a single day, what the more timid of the craft could not scrape together in a week. Descent is a noun that means the act of moving downward ( descending ), a downward movement, or downward movement in general. 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. -- lib. Her starboard side was next the whirl, and on the larboard arose the world of ocean we had left. "This," said I at length, to the old man -- "this can be nothing else than the great whirlpool of the Maelstrm." Well, so far we had ridden the swells very cleverly; but presently a gigantic sea happened to take us right under the counter, and bore us with it as it rose up up as if into the sky. My eldest brother had a son eighteen years old, and I had two stout boys of my own. The story is told by an Old Norwegian fisherman to a tourist at the top of a very tall mountain. 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. stories Now raise yourself up a little higher -- hold on to the grass if you feel giddy -- so -- and look out, beyond the belt of vapor beneath us, into the sea." "So it is sometimes termed," said he. It opens at the top of a mountain, 4 Stars. 'A Descent Into the Maelstrom' tells the story of a brave fisherman and his brother who take the risk of fishing near a gigantic maelstrom in the Norwegian sea, taking home considerably more fish than their fellow fishermen who remain on safer fishing grounds. The choice spots over here among the rocks, however, not only yield the finest variety, but in far greater abundance; so that we often got in a single day, what the more timid of the craft could not scrape together in a week. 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. ably into the surging water of the hurricane whipped Maelstrom. The first was, that, as a general rule, the larger the bodies were, the more rapid their descent the second, that, between two masses of equal extent, the one spherical, and I resolved to lash myself securely to the water cask upon which I now held, to cut it loose from the counter, and to throw myself with it into the water. It appeared to grow upon me as I drew nearer and nearer to my dreadful doom. The old man recounts his ordeal that in less than a single day changed his hairs from a jetty black to white, weakened his limbs, and t unstrung his nerves. by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1845) Print Version The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways ; nor are the models that we Presently our little boat gave herself a shake, just as a dog does in coming out of the water, and thus rid herself, in some measure, of the seas. "How often we made the circuit of the belt it is impossible to say. I now tell it toyou and I can scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden., Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: Poe's Works. I glanced at its face by the moonlight, and then burst into tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. stories | A singular change, too, had come over the heavens. I could not help observing, nevertheless, that I had scarcely more difficulty in maintaining my hold and footing in this situation, than if we had been upon a dead level; and this, I suppose, was owing to the speed at which we revolved. "Our boat was the lightest feather of a thing that ever sat upon water. But moment after moment elapsed. The old man proceeds to tell a story of how he and his brothers while fishing a few years earlier had been caught in it. But for this circumstance we should have foundered at once for we lay entirely buried for some moments. 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. 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 story Poe weaves out of this natural phenomenon is highly suggestive, leaving itself open to numerous interpretations. I saw our exact position in an instant. You suppose me a very old man -- but I am not. In a few minutes more, there came over the scene another radical alteration. descent (dsnt) n. 1. the act, process, or fact of descending. A Descent into the Maelstrom is a classic example of Poes incorporation of real-life, non-fiction accounts of phenomena into fiction. Our progress downward, at each revolution, was slow, but very perceptible. All this time I had never let go of the ring-bolt. I still lived. The oldest seaman in Norway never experienced any thing like it. wordlist 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. Upon this occasion we should have been driven out to sea in spite of everything, (for the whirlpools threw us round and round so violently, that, at length, we fouled our anchor and dragged it) if it had not been that we drifted into one of the innumerable cross currents here to-day and gone to-morrow which drove us under the lee of Flimen, where, by good luck, we brought up. She lit up every thing about us with the greatest distinctness -- but, oh God, what a scene it was to light up! 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. 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. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middle of the surge, and then nearer and nearer to its horrible inner edge. 4. derivation from an ancestor; lineage; extraction. II) (abridged reprint, presumably from Tales) A Descent into the Maelstrm 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. The lids clenched themselves together as if in a spasm. "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. My eldest brother had a son eighteen years old, and I had two stout boys of my own. A Descent into the Maelstrm is one of his least known and most underrated tales, and I probably wouldn't have read it if I weren't such a big fan of his works. When I recovered myself a little, however, my gaze fell instinctively downward. These streaks, at length, spreading out to a great distance, and entering into combination, took unto themselves thegyratory motion of the subsided vortices, and seemed to form the germ of another more vast. As I felt the sickening sweep of the descent, I had instinctively tightened my hold upon the barrel, and closed my eyes. This stream is regulated by the flux and reflux of the sea -- it being constantly high and low water every six hours. Director Neil Marshall Writer Neil Marshall Stars Shauna Macdonald It had run down at seven o'clock! It might have been an hour, or thereabout, after myquitting the smack, when, having descended to a vast distance beneath me, it made three or four wild gyrations in rapid succession, and, bearing my loved brother with it, plunged headlong, at once and forever, into the chaos of foam below. Such a hurricane as then blew it is folly to attempt describing. The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is t But A Descent into the Maelstrom is different, because the trouble which descends upon the white-haired man is outside of his control: he is a victim of natures forces at their wildest and most uncontrollable, with his brush with death being the result of natural phenomena rather than some retributive power punishing him for some past crime. Very descriptive but the story within a story doesnt quite work. I would not have believed that any wave could rise so high. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as, but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all., To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black and beetling cliff, whose character of gloom was but the more forcibly illustrated by the surf which reared high up against its white and ghastly crest, howling and shrieking forever., The narrator (A Descent into the Maelstrom), The old man (A Descent into the Maelstrom), The elder brother (A Descent into the Maelstrom), The youngest brother (A Descent into the Maelstrom), The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age, A Descent into the Maelstrom by Edgar Allen Poe. links | I still lived. I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographers account of theMare Tenebrarum. When it is flood, the stream runs up the country between Lofoden and Moskoe with a boisterous rapidity; but the roar of its impetuous ebb to the sea is scarce equalled by the loudest and most dreadfulcataracts; the 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 fragments thereof are thrown up again. timeline The story is told by an Old Norwegian fisherman to a tourist at the top of a very tall mountain. For some moments we were completely deluged, as I say, and all this time I held my breath, and clung to the bolt. The old man also states that he is broken in body and spirit, but proves that he is not completely broken by the carefree way he sits on the edge of the cliff. It's a tale of fear and terror. A fascinating tale of a man's near-death experience in a giant maelstrom or whirlpool at sea. 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. 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. poetry | His experience and brush with death, however, made his black hair turn white in the course of one day. "I now made one or two attempts to speak to my brother -- but, in some manner which I could not understand, the din had so increased that I could not make him hear a single word, although I screamed at the top of my voice in his ear. These, no doubt, were singular fancies to occupy a mans 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. Read 135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How my elder brother escaped destruction I cannot say, for I never had an opportunity of ascertaining. In the year 1645, early in the morning of Sexagesima Sunday, it raged with such noise and impetuosity that the very stones of the houses on the coast fell to the ground." See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? What great skill! I am not sure from what point of view the writer in question surveyed it, nor at what time; but it could neither have been from the summit of Helseggen, nor during a storm. 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. It may appear strange, but now, when we were in the very jaws of the gulf, I felt more composed than when we were only approaching it. 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. At length, after making several guesses of this nature, and being deceived in all -- this fact -- the fact of my invariable miscalculation -- set me upon a train of reflection that made my limbs again tremble, and my heart beat heavily once more. "Never shall I forget the sensations of awe, horror, and admiration with which I gazed about me. 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. 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., We are now, he continued, in that particularizing manner which distinguished him we are now close upon the Norwegian coast in the sixty-eighth degree of latitude in the great province of Nordland and in the dreary district of Lofoden. This, said I at length, to the old man thiscanbe nothing else than the great whirlpool of the Maelstrm., So it is sometimes termed, said he. summaries | 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. In 1841, "Graham's Magazine" was the first to publish "Maelstrom." It was on the tenth day of July, 18, a day which the people of this part of the world will never forget for it was one in which blew the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens. 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. Be the first to contribute! A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRM. Lavish harmonies and melody lines create a musical atmosphere very much in line with the story narrated in the tale. In 1986, American composer Philip Glass wrote music inspired by "A Descent into the Maelstrm". It was commissioned by the Australian Dance Theatre . I knew it could make no difference whether either of us held on at all; so I let him have the bolt, and went astern to the cask. A Descent into the Maelstrm. I have arranged my thoughts into a haiku: An awesome tale about a man who survives an encounter with the terrible Maelstrm. I could not tell you the twentieth part of the difficulties we encountered on the grounds it is a bad spot to be in, even in good weather but we made shift always to run the gauntlet of the Moskoe-strm itself without accident; although at times my heart has been in my mouth when we happened to be a minuteor so behind or before the slack. But while we were up I had thrown a quick glance around -- and that one glance was all sufficient. A bear once, attempting to swim from Lofoden to Moskoe, was caught by the stream and borne down, while he roared terribly, so as to be heard on shore. 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, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Site Built by. 4 Stars. a descent into the maelstrm, edgar allan poes vertiginous short story of being swept into a huge and terrible whirlpool by a raging hurricane that the oldest seaman in norway never experienced was transformed into a musical dance/theatre piece by philip glass and collaborators, dancer/choreographer molissa fenley, set designer eamon darcy 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. 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. I muttered a hurried prayer to God, and thought all was over. !function(d,s,id) The film follows six women who enter a cave system and struggle to survive against the humanoid creatures inside. 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. However, I didn't Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. About two miles nearer the land, arose another of smaller size, hideously craggy and barren, and encompassed at various intervals by a cluster of dark rocks. A Descent into the Maelstrom (1986) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. The ordinary accounts of this vortex had by no means prepared me for what I saw. I took courage, and looked once again upon the scene. biography I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my original terrors. Edgar Allan Poe (A Descent into the Maelstrom - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story) . Note the blend of terror and curiosity which the man tells the narrator he felt, even while he was in danger of being swallowed up by the maelstrom: I have already described the unnatural curiosity which had taken the place of my original terrors. The description is absolutely brilliant. A boat picked me up exhausted from fatigue and (now that the danger was removed) speechless from the memory of its horror. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels and staves. I now began to watch, with a strange interest, the numerous things that floated in our company. All this time I had never let go of the ring-bolt. Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. Rather than one huge whirlpool as described in Poe's story, it is actually a system of whirlpools, currents and cross currents. A boat picked me up -- exhausted from fatigue -- and (now that the danger was removed) speechless from the memory of its horror. It might have been an hour, or thereabout, after my quitting the smack, when, having descended to a vast distance beneath me, it made three or four wild gyrations in rapid succession, and, bearing my loved brother with it, plunged headlong, at once and forever, into the chaos of foam below. I have yet to read another writer with the ability to take all my senses into a story and make me live it. I knew very well that we were doomed, had we been ten times a ninety-gun ship. The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet-black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. I could not help observing, nevertheless, that I had scarcely more difficulty in maintaining my hold and footing in this situation, than if we had been upon a dead level ;and this, I suppose, was owing to the speed at which we revolved. 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 boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. Descent TV Movie 2005 PG 1 h 30 m IMDb RATING 3.4 /10 1K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 0:58 1 Video 40 Photos Action Drama Sci-Fi When the Ring of Fire starts heating up with an unprecedented amount of volcanic activity a team of scientists are gathered to prevent a global catastrophe. Refresh and try again. Of course, all I could think of then is to finish reading A Descent into the Maelstrom, which I have started reading almost two weeks ago. The general surface grew somewhat more smooth, and the whirlpools, one by one, disappeared, while prodigious streaks of foam became apparent where none had been seen before. But we were now, in a great measure, rid of these annoyances -- just us death-condemned felons in prison are allowed petty indulgences, forbidden them while their doom is yet uncertain. I placed myself as desired, and he proceeded. I now tell it to you -- and I can scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden. This hope arose partly from memory, and partly from present observation. ", home | Having made up my mind to hope no more, I got rid of a great deal of that terror which unmanned me at first. Having made up my mind to hope no more, I got rid of a great deal of that terror which unmanned me at first. The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy. It is considered by some critics to be a science fiction tale based upon an actual maelstrom off the coast of Norway in the Lofoten Islands. The curtains of my bed were in flames. [CDATA[ that being said, whereas the narrator of "ms. found in a bottle" overcomes his fear of death by realizing that death can be worth the price of increased knowledge, the main character of "a 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, so that I tremble at the least exertion, and am frightened at a shadow. Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity. The white-haired man managed to prevent his own descent into the Maelstrom by observing how the various objects from the boat were sucked into the whirlpool and eventually grabbing onto a water cask, and escaping the force of the Maelstrom. 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