Boundaries In Life From Death By Edgar Allan Poe

Poe was taken from a tavern to the hospital days before death. He was seen in a drunken stupor, but some say this is not true. Others say that he was taken from a tavern but not drunk, rather sick from the elements. Another is he was found drunk on stairs. That theory is very unlikely for what every other source says.

     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.

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed." This quote by Edgar Allan Poe describes his obscure works which have been discussed and criticized in great detail for many years to come. Some readers believe that his works are too dark and eccentric maybe even deathly. Others believe his works to be masterpieces. However, one thing that is not up for debate is the fact that Edgar Allan Poe is a literary genius. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the ratiocinative story and the amateur sleuth and leading contributor to the gothic genre, is the greatest author of the mid-nineteenth century.

is made through his use of punctuation, word choice, figurative language, tone, and sentence structure.

The theme in Poe’s short story, “The Premature burial ‘ is one of extreme fear and its effect that it can have on the human mind and the resulting quality of life. The main character narrates the story in first person and suffers from an internal conflict because he is subjected to an unusual disease he tells us, “for several years I have been subject to the disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy.” So he sporadically becomes catatonic, which leads him to develop a fear of people assuming that when he is in this state, he is dead and therefore they might mistakenly bury him alive. Consequently, he persuades his friends to promise to check whether he is alive or not and asks “that under no circumstances they would bury me until

Death is an inevitable event that will occur in a life. When, how, and where are the beginnings of questions posed about the topic, and the fear of not knowing this leads it to be a taboo subject in many discussions. Edgar Allan Poe defied this sense of taboo and wrote many works centering on the topic of death. It is Edgar Allan Poe’s discussion of death in his works that reveals the innate human perversion of the discussion of death. The reason for his discussion of death may find roots in his personal life.

Having an answer regarding a loved one’s death in cases of uncertainty is psychologically beneficial to the family members, especially if they are concerned that the death had occurred because of something they did. If there were any genetic disorders that led to the death, those can be clarified and relayed to the family as well. Clinicians and hospitals benefit from autopsies because they provide reassurance of the diagnoses, treatments and the appropriateness of the medical care received. Society experiences the benefits of autopsies through the evaluation of diagnostic tests, drugs, and diagnostic techniques along with advanced medical knowledge of new diseases as well as environmental, occupational, and existing diseases. Mortality statistics are only able to be verified from autopsy data because so often statistics are inaccurate with the lack of an autopsy (Stöppler,

Edgar Allan Poe’s, “Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” one of Poe’s first stories, evokes a mood of isolation that he feels himself, through the protagonist and the settings he and the reader visit. Also, by isolating the reader both socially and physically, Poe can examine how they feel.

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were traveling actors. His father David Poe Jr. died probably in 1810. Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died in 1811, leaving three children. Edgar was taken into the home of a merchant from Richmond named John Allan. The remaining children were cared for by others. Poe's brother William died young and sister Rosalie later became insane. At the age of five Poe could recite passages of English poetry. Later one of his teachers in Richmond said: "While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet." Poe was brought up partly in England (1815-20), where he attended Manor School at Stoke Newington. Later it became the setting for

Edgar Allan Poe was a quite mysterious man who lived in the dark ages. What happened to be more mysterious about Poe was his death. Poe’s death is unknown, even though we have many theories and possible outcomes about his death we do not know exactly what happened. Some say Poe died from rabies and others say he died from alcohol. Despite the fact that there is a no final answer on Poe’s death, I think he may have died from alcohol.

From the first look at Alone from Edgar Allan Poe, the character felt abandoned, alone and need love. From the beginning, he would sound like a kid whom been isolated by everyone else. No one respect his unique and singularity and no one love him. The truth is, it wasn’t, and he isn’t being deserted. The whole poem about this own ideal of ignoring others, made up his own world of grief and isolation by thinking no one can understand his unique singularity and nothing he can related to, therefore he tried to bring suffer to himself made him think he is alone.

Edgar Allan Poe reflects his life of isolation and loneliness into his writing. “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem that shows the isolation of a soul by using imagery and figurative language. Poe describes isolation as something you are bound to since the beginning and there is no escape from it. Many poets use imagery and figurative language to challenge the reader to search for a meaning in their poetry. Poe uses imagery to show how the soul is isolated and to mirror things that occurred in his life.

The Last way was by his cats. Poe had many cats that he took care of and He had many cats that he killed. The ones that he killed he would either hang them or he would cut them with the ax. And a theory that many people have is that he cat had rabies. Them one day Poe was around his cat and Poe mad the cat mad in some type of way. Then out nowhere the cat had bit Poe, He tried to get help but he died on the

Picture this. The father of modern crime and detective stories, known as Edgar Allan Poe, is sitting down about to write a beautiful piece of writing and BAM! He whisks away into a story of love, death, and just plain out horror; either characters are losing someone near and dear to their hearts or they are plotting to kill. Edgar Allan Poe, at a very young age, lost both of his parents, and later on in life, lost his wife to tuberculosis, so in one way or another, these stories reflect off of his personal experiences. A major theme in Poe’s writings is death. The theme of death is seen throughout the works of Annabel Lee, the Cask of Amontillado, the Raven, and the Black Cat.

When looking at a piece of literature through a psychological approach it is easy to apply Sigmund Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and superego, which focus on conscious and unconscious behavior. When analyzing many of Poe’s works, critics tend to look through a psychological lens. Specifically in Poe’s The Black Cat. Some critics believe that Poe’s alcoholism is reflected in the piece, but many, such as James W. Gargano “advised the tales readers to avoid the biographical pitfall of seeing Poe and the first-person narrator of The Black Cat as ‘identical literary twins’” (Piacentino 1). It is due to his childhood that Poe’s narrator in The Black Cat subconsciously places animals before humans, thus leading to him to murder his wife.