Here's why:
* Focus on Emotion and Personal Feelings: The poem explores the speaker's emotional response to the sound of bells, moving from joy and celebration to sorrow and despair.
* Musicality and Sound Devices: Poe uses extensive sound devices like onomatopoeia ("knell," "clang," "toll"), alliteration ("bells," "brazen," "breaking"), and assonance ("moan," "lone") to create a musical effect.
* Subjective and Personal Voice: The poem is told from the perspective of a single speaker, revealing their internal thoughts and feelings.
While "The Bells" has a clear narrative arc, it doesn't have the traditional elements of a narrative poem like a plot, character development, or specific setting. Instead, it focuses primarily on the emotional journey of the speaker, making it a lyric poem.