Analyzing Edgar Allen Poe's Dark Stories

Edgar Allen Poe was bone in Boston on January 19 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe. He lost his parents at the age of two years and had to be adopted by John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan. John Allan was a very wealthy man but he only gave Edgar a third of his school requirements and this alienated him from Edgar. When Allan’s wife dies Edgar also decides to move out because he could not put up with John Allan. Edgar loved poetry from a tender age. He even wrote verses to girls that he developed feelings for. He could have had his first poetry book published by the age of 14 years but there was no support both from his teachers and his adoptive parents. In the course of his life Edgar became an alcoholic and mentally disturbed and this enhanced his writing skills. He created his characters trough imagination to show mystery and adventure.

Edgar Allan Poe’s life was laced with tragedy from beginning to end. Even after death, misfortune seemed to fog his life. Misfortune became his legacy. Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Elizabeth, was a charming and successful actress. His father David, however, gave up law school for what became a mediocre acting career. Within the first two years of his life, Edgar experienced enough tragedy for a lifetime. First his father ran off and left the family when he was just a toddler, soon after he lost his mother to pneumonia, followed by the death of his father that same month. Surviving their deaths were older brother Henry Poe and newborn sister Rosalie Poe. Henry stayed with his grandparents,

Edgar Allan Poe, born in 1809, is a critic, mystery and short story writer, but most importantly a poet. Edgar’s troubled life greatly influenced his works. As a young boy, Edgar loved to compose poems for his loved ones. But as he grew older, Edgar started to experience pains and tragedies in life, causing him to abuse on opium and alcohol. These were scenes behind the years of Edgar’s dark writings.

     Edgar Allan Poe, the first master of the short story, had written many short stories from mysteries to morbidity. Edgar was born on January 19,1809 in Boston, Massachussettes. Edgars Parents, David and Eliza, were both in the acting business. Poe also had a sister, who is rarely spoken of. When Edgar was young his father fleed from the family, leaving Edgar, his mother, and sister alone. At the age of two Edgar's mother died of tuberculosis. Edgar was then placed in a foster home with John and Fanny Allan.

Edgar Allan Poe grew up in many different places with many different people in his life.Poe had ups and downs, many good and bad experiences that he showed in his writing with the character . He wrote many poems,and stories about the experiences and feelings in his life for example tuberculosis, love, and madness.

When his parents died he got taken in with John Allan. He attended college but it didn't work, so he then joined the army which is when he started publishing poems and short stories. He went to a college but about half of the year he had to leave because of bad debts and financial support. He then joined the army and published his first poem but sadly he was gained a dismissal by ignoring orders and violating regulations. He then traveled around publishing his third collection of verses. He then traveled to Baltimore to live with his Aunt. His wife helped him live a healthy life with a shelter over his head. He also wasn’t alone and got some inspiration from his love for his wife who is also his cousin. Edgar Allan Poe had a lot of challenges but still was a great writer. He was being kicked out of college was a big challenge he had to face. Also have to deal financial issues and the death of his wife. When his wife died he was starting to feel

Edgar Allan Poe’s horrible, sad early life influenced his writing. When he was only two years old Edgar’s dad left him and the rest of his family. Soon after that Edgars sick mom began coughing up blood and died leaving Edgar alone and orphaned. Edgar was separated from his siblings and raised by his foster parents. One, his step father, John Allan, hated him. All of these horrible tragedies in his early life contributed to him becoming an writer of scary poems including horror and hate.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American authors. Poe’s stories are very mysterious and mostly reflect on his troubled life. Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19th, 1809, and died October 7th, 1849. Poe was abandoned by his father and lost his mother at the age of 3; he was later fostered by the Allan family. His foster mother treated him very well, but died years later from tuberculosis. His foster father, however, did not get along with Poe. When Poe went to college he had gambling problems and was in debt. His adoptive father rejected Poe and removed him off the will. As an adult Poe first published his story in 1829, then fell in love with his wife Virginia who was his first cousin. A couple of years later Virginia died from tuberculosis.

The literary works, “Annabel Lee”, “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Tell Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”, all describe the pessimistic characteristic and writing style of author, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s literary works were influenced by his rough upbringing, exposing him to bleak situations. He was an orphan but still went through a brutal experience after his uncle took him in. As a result, when Poe grew up, most of his writings reflect on his experiences as a child and young adult. Poe uses layered irony and complex syntax to enhance his works as well as catching the reader's attention with his unusual, gothic writing style, which no other author explored at that time.

Edgar Allan Poe had married his fourteen year-old cousin, whom died ten years later at the age of twenty four, from Tuberculosis (Ljungquist N.P.). After Virginia died, Poe became lost, alcoholic, drug addicted, and debauchery (Szumski 20). “Under the adroit cover of the special mechanism he had constructed, Poe could unveil his inner, introverted self

Edgar Allen Poe’s life was a series of small victories followed by disappointments and failures. According to Wikipedia, Poe was born on January 19, 1809, orphaned by the age of two, and raised by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan. He was educated abroad until the age of 11 when his adopted family returned to Richmond, Virginia. By the age of 19 Poe had disowned his adopted family and joined the U.S. Army. He did well in the military and even received and appointment to West Point. However, after a short time there he deliberately got himself kicked out. He goes onto publish a number of works that were well received and continued to publish until his sudden and unexplained death in 1849. Throughout his life Poe entered into situations with the best intentions to succeed,

Poe lives a relatively normal childhood, attending school and acquiring a good education. Later, Poe enrolled at the University of Virginia and became in debt. He gambled to try and pay it off but only wound up in even more trouble and eventually had to drop out of school. After losing his friends, money, and family, he briefly joins the military at West Point. After that Poe looked to writing full time. His career as a literary critique and his life in general improve after he publically marries his younger cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. He loved her tremendously and lived with her until she died of Tuberculosis in her mid 20’s. After this is when Poe spirals back into a depression and begins drinking and gambling again. After a long and depressing life of misfortune and grief, Edgar Allan continued writing stories of sorrow

Edgar Allan Poe was a prominent writer during the era of Romanticism, but Poe’s poems focused primarily on the Dark Romanticism, developed under Romanticism. The era of Romanticism was commonly described as showing raw emotion, but there was still a conflict in the story. The purpose of Romanticism was for the writer to feel free; there were no rules when it came to this form of writing. Dark Romanticism was looking at the gothic side of stories rather than the heroism stories, which focused more on death, and the flaws of humans. Dark Romanticism also focused on the evil aspect of writings rather than the heroic part to stories. Edgar Allan Poe’s poems are shown more in this type of writing rather than the typical Romantic writings. When looking more into Dark Romanticism readers are able to see how Poe could have connected his personal turmoil to his poems. The University of Delaware’s library says, “Suffering for offenses against God, man and Nature, the hero-villains wander the earth, alone and misunderstood. Their personal torment in a vast universe is emphasized by desolate settings of icebound seas, jagged mountains and bottomless abysses: imagery that would inspire artistic, literary, and musical compositions,” (Dark Romanticism). This quote shows readers that writers during the Dark Romanticism era used their own sufferings in order to make the stories seem more dramatic and almost human. Looking into the poems “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”, readers are able to see

Edger Allen Poe one of the greatest writer of dark writing. I could say he is one of the best but that’s just my opinion. I personally think he’s one of the best because, of his writing that I have read. He’s probably one of the best because of how he lived his life and how difficult it was. I could say he’s a great dark writer because of how dark his life was. Some of his works that include The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Black Cat that I will talking about later one.

Edgar Allan Poe born on January 19, 1809, was known as the creator of the modern detective story and innovator of the science fiction genre. Although, people identify him because of his horror stories as well as his haunting lyric poetry, there was a different side of him other than a gruesome, mysterious individual prowling in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries. Poe’s childhood was very tragic and affected his adult life when growing up. Poe was the second son of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. Shortly after Poe was born, his father abandoned the family in 1810 and the following death of his twenty-four year old mother in 1811, left Poe an orphan at the young age of three. Poe was adopted by a guy named john, who was a strict unemotional