How Did Edgar Allan Poe Impact Society

The Impact of Edgar Allan Poe on American Culture Edgar Allan Poe once said, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” Edgar Allan Poe is among many authors as one of the most influential writers of all time. Edgar Allan Poe had a unique writing style that no one else did. He did impact many people and still impacts many to this day. He was one to build on the idea of horror and expand the concept of it. Many of Poe’s works are still available today, and his poems are still some of the most famous around. Not only is Poe’s works some of the best anyone has ever seen, the message he leaves everyone with is astonishing. His tragic early life was the main cause of his affection for horror.

It states in “Poe Museum”(2017) that “Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as the haunting lyric poetry.”(p.5) His poem “The Raven” is a big example of that as he uses his frightening settings to proclaim his “tales of terror.” He uses a raven in the poem as a symbol for good luck. The expression “nevermore” is said repeatedly by the raven. The story is dedicated to a loss one of Poe. In “Poe Museum,”(2017) it says “Most famously, poe completely transformed the genre of the horror story with his masterful tales of psychological depth and insight not envisioned in the genre before his time and scarcely seen it since.” In Poe’s story “The Raven,” he gets in the reader’s head with his recurring themes and his way of portraying the sense of fear with his poetic lyrics. The mood he creates with his setting makes it seem very down because the story takes place in a dark room where the raven flies in through a window. Although this book exceeded expectations, “The Tell-Tale heart” is one of many of Poe’s greatest