How Did Edgar Allan Poe React With Death

Hook: In the words of Edgar Allan Poe himself, “ With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion”

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He was an American writer, critic and editor but was best known for his poems and short stories. At a young age, Edgar grew up to rough circumstances. Poe’s mother was a teenage widow when she married David Poe, and Edgar was their second son. Poe’s father had a fairly good reputation as an actor, but he had an even wider reputation as an alcoholic. He abandoned the family a year after Poe was born, and the following year, Poe’s mother died while she was acting in Richmond, Virginia. The children were separated, and Poe was taken in as a foster child by John Allan.

Edgar Allen Poe 's death has been the topic of discussion for many historians and scholars for many years. The reason for his demise has been unsolved, because of the many different sources explaining his death. From what I 've learned from reading counts of Poe 's death, I 've concluded that Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies, rather than alcoholic intoxication. The reason why I believe it is rabies is because his symptoms were too severe and life threatening to be related to just alcohol.

Edgar Allan Poe creates this menacing tone by the repetition and description of his senses. In the killing the narrators explains that the eye of the old man is the reason why he killed him in the first place .The description of the old man’s “eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with an film over it. Whatever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees”(1). The senses of the narrator helps to bring on the mood of menace into the story. Poe brings the horror even further once the murder has happened. The narrator starts the killing after the door was “open-wide, wide open-and I grew furious and I gaze upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness- all a dull blue, a hideous veil over it that chilled the very morren in my bones”(2). The

The poet, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote from influences in his life such as his grief, being an orphan and drugs. Poe, born in Boston, spent 3 years with his family until he was orphaned after his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment. Poe was adopted by the

As everyone has a private life that contradicts their public life to some extent, Edgar Allan Poe was no exception. As spoken in the Edgar Allan Poe Documentary video, “the private Poe was very different from the public Poe”. It was almost as if the walls he built up around himself remained standing while he pursued his social life, yet fell away when he was separated from the world. Also bouncing off the Edgar Allan Poe Documentary video is the reality of Edgar and Virginia’s essence, which happens to show the private Poe perfectly. As a couple they were devoted and loving, they depended upon each other. Edgar taught Virginia algebra and how to play the flute, he even took the time to complete games of hop frog with her. But, as the Edgar

Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19th, 1809. His family had many actors such as his mother. Poe’s father however, was a lawyer. His mother died of tuberculosis when he was three years old and then his father abandoned him. He was raised by a businessman named John Allan, in Redmond, Washington. As Poe approached his teenage years, his relationship with Allan became a stormy one. While the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart didn’t really care about the money, Poe needed Allan to support him financially. Allan supported Poe’s education at a private English school for 5 years. However,

“Lord, help my poor soul”, the last and final words of the amazing writer, Edgar Allan Poe, before his sudden death in 1849. Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark and treacherous stories and poems that often lead to the questioning of his mental state. Poe lived a rather difficult life in which writing was his escape. No one ever knew what had happened to Poe, only that he was a drunk. Edgar Allan Poe 's parents were both professional actors who did their job well. Edgars parents passed away when he was only three years old leaving him to be an orphan. Hs family was dirt poor. His dad left his family when he was only two years old with two other siblings, Henry and Rosalie, causing things to turn to the worse for the family. Soon after that Edgar 's mom died of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Edgar became a merchant and grew up rather comfortably. For five years Edgar and his foster family moved and lived in England, where Edgar got a good education at a school outside of London. When Edgar was 15 he wrote his first poem Last night, with many cares & toils oppres 'd, Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest. In 1826 Poe enrolled in the University of Virginia. Edgar was a good student with a bad gambling problem. By the end of his first semester, Poe was over $2000 in debt, to which John refused to pay.

From Annabel Lee to The Cask of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart, from The Raven to The Fall of House Usher, author Edgar Allan Poe has been mesmerizing his audiences with his one of a kind style for decades. Poe has a unique art which allows him to capture his audience's thoughts, feelings, and extend their imagination to places they've never been before by using using figurative language, syntax, and parallelism to control his readers view, opinion, and frame of mind in many of his writings. By focusing on symbolism and irony, Poe is able to add dimension to his writing that many are not able to. Poes rough life is a key source of inspiration for his demented writings. At the age of three, both of Poe's parents died. After surviving a harsh childhood, Poe later found himself with a serious drug and gambling addiction, and to add to this is beloved wife, Virginia Poe, died due to tuberculosis. Poe's theme of revenge and death and suspenseful mood leave his audiences traumatized in all sorts of ways making them desire more.

Though Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories like, The Cask of Amontillado, to his poems like, The Raven, Poe’s shows his writing style to use physical imagery and connotative syntax to show ,imagery in his writing. Throughout his life, Poe had always lived through the most chaotic and evil of time. His parents died while he was 3 years old. After his parents died, he lived with another family member who never accepted him as their own son. Later on in life, Poe had served in the military and at that point he started writing poems. After Poe was honorably discharged from the military, he married his 12 year old cousin who died shortly of tuberculosis. These events heavily contributed to his writing style by giving events to base stories as well as a viewpoint on the world. Overall, Edgar Allan Poe’s twisted and ominous writing style focuses on using physical imagery and connotative syntax to show imagery.

Both of Edgar Allan Poe’s fathers abandoning him and never supporting him greatly affected Poe. He never had a father figure in his life to support him or that genuinely cared about him. First, the text cites, “The two father figures in his life were never supportive, which may account for many of his struggles” (About Edgar Allan Poe 2). This explains how the abandonment and rejection of Poe’s two father figures affected him in a negative way and may have been the reason he had some of his struggles later in life. Second, the text states, “Even though John Allan had plenty of money, he only gave Edgar about a third of what he needed” (Biography of Edgar Allan Poe 1). This shows how John Allan did not support Edgar, mentally or financially.

In many stories and poems; such as the Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The House of Usher, and so many more timeless works, Edgar Allan Poe has been captivating his audiences with spine tingling thrillers through the words and style of his own twisted ways. The only way to describe where Poe’s writing belongs in history, would be classified as gothic genre. From the start of the 1800’s to present day and the future of literature, through irony, repetition, imagery, and symbolism Poe has been bewitching readers with his gore and insane writings.

Many people go through horrors in their life. However, most don’t record them in the way Poe did. From a young age Poe experienced death in his family. As Poe lived his life, he started using his feelings and life experiences in his work. He based his feelings in his poems such as Annabel Lee and Alone. He used his life experiences in his works such as The Masque of the Red Death and The Black Cat. Though Poe had a few other works such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven; they did not portray much of his life experiences and feelings like these ones did. Poe’s themes of death, insanity, and emotion through eyes in his works reflect the actual themes in his life.

One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most known attributes is his use of fear in many of his stories. He used words and images to instill the fright into his readers. He strung together scenarios that happen to his characters that encapsulates real fears that a reader could have. Poe would use fear in his stories in multiple ways. A story could relate around a certain fear. The way Poe sets up his story with the tension could create a fearful atmosphere. He did not just focus on portraying a narrator with a certain fear, he would use language that would make the reader feel fear. He packed in images of darkness and horror in order to create these atmospheres that presented fear in many different ways.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author; he mainly focused in genres such as short stories and poems. Poe didn’t have much of an academic background in literature but, he excelled in it. Some people believe that his success was mostly due to the fact that his life was very sad, filled by a series on misfortunate events, such as being an orphan, suffering from poverty and being constantly surrounded by death. In his works, Poe portrays narratives that are characterized by their mystery and macabre. The topic of death was ever present in his work, constantly describe with dark moods and somewhat terrifying settings. His ways of witting these thrilling narratives made him one of the most famous authors in the English language.