Oh. whom knows he? Someones, of course.
He was born in Boston, he wrote poems, got married with his cousin, and became a great short story writer.
I love "The Raven" and 'The fallen house of the ushers". I feel the pain of the ushers, the voice of the crow...
Oh, his stories are meaningful!!!
Edgar Allan Poe, a wonderful short story writer
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I agree; he had a keen perception of the human condition. I really love his work. I wrote an imitation Poe story once...it was really creepy. Remind me to post it later.
Anyway, Poe often repeated the images he used. For instance, he used hearts, whirlpools, eyes, clocks (symbolizing time), orangutans and apes, and black creatures several times throughout his works. Some of them sound absurd (like the apes), but adding them made his stories really creepy for the time. For example, many people feared being buried alive back then; if you were in a coma, people might have thought that you were dead and buried you. Then, when you woke up a week later, you’d suffocate in confusion and fear. Grave robbers discovered this because when they dug up graves, there were fingernail markings on the tops of the caskets where the people tried to claw their way through the wood in order to get out. Creepy.
Poe also alludes to apes and monkeys in his works; in his time, the orangutan had just been discovered, and many people thought that it was evil. Because of the ape’s physical similarities to man, they appeared to be cursed or demonic people.
The sad thing about Poe is that he died drunk in a gutter. Bummer. Sorry for using the passive no-no voice so much in this post. I’m exhausted... maybe I’ll go edit something…
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I don't know, the only Poe I've ever read was the Raven, and I didn't really like that. It could have been the fact that I was doing it for school that made me hate it of course.
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The Tell-Tale Heart is amazing!!! Though it is undoubtedly the creepiest thing I've ever read, I love it. Read it.
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Poe is so chilling! I read a few of his works for my American Lit class. He's also challenging. The worst grade I've received on a lit paper was from his!
Ligeia had to be one of my favorites by him. It was so beautiful. The Fall of the House of Usher is truly his greatest masterpiece though. The work of twins and doubles and reflections and everything was so overwhelming. It's difficult to contemplate all that he put into it. If it weren't for him, the short story would be considered so less!
The Masque of Red Death was another beauty I read. His work with numbers and colors was beautiful--and who doesn't love a good plague? -
The Cask of Amontillado, hands down my favorite short story in the history of time.
But, I adore his poetry oh-so-much, favorite poem is Eldorado, it is just so wistful and wonderful to read.
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I have partially read the Tell-tale heart, and I am in the process of memorizing The Raven to recite for my Language Arts class.
His stories, being so dark, are not anything I can identify with, but I love spending time to discover the meanings of them. -
My favorite poem of his is most likely Annabell Lee
But I don't know the name of my favorite short story, all I know is that he killed one of his "friends" in it. Cab any one tell me what the title is?
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