Edgar Allan Poe's Effects Of Childhood And Adulthood

As a child, Poe would watch his mother perform on stage every night. He would be sitting front row watching the beautiful actress commit suicide every night due to her role as Juliet from Shakespeare's famous play. After the curtains closed, Poe’s mother would take young Edgar and go on with her evening (Edgar Allan Poe). Now, as an impressionable young child, Poe would see his mother die on stage and then see her “come back to life”. This led to Poe’s fascination with death. In “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”, death is the main component. In “The Raven”, Poe talks about a man who was going mad while trying to forget his love who had just died. The fact that this woman is dead contributes to Poe’s theme of death. Now, this is not the only piece of literature that has to do with a man’s love dying, in the poem “Annabel Lee” Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, who lived in the 19th century. The literary critics tend to believe that he was the writer to invent the genre of detective fiction. As for the peculiarities of his writing style, it should be noted that he preferred gothic style, which was more appealing to the public. Among the topics he described were death and its signs, loss, darkness, etc. As for the biographic influences, it should be noted that Poe’s parents died when he was young and, therefore, this may partially serve as the explanation of the dark motives in his writings. There were many obstacles in his life and one of them was that he was earning his living by means of writing only.

Edgar Allan Poe is the most morbid of all American authors. Poe made his impact in Gothic fiction, especially for the tales of the macabre of which he is so renowned for. “How can so strange & so fine a genius & so sad a life, be exprest [sic] & comprest in on line — would it not be best to say of Poe in a reverential spirit simply Requiescat in Pace [?]” — (Alfred Lord Tennyson’s reply to the Poe Memorial committee, February 18, 1876). Poe’s own life story sheds light on the darkness of his writings.

With a life marred by tragedy at the very young age of three with his parents death, thus leaving him an orphan, his works reveals his darkly passionate sensibilities—a tormented and sometimes neurotic obsession with death and violence and overall appreciation for the beautiful yet tragic mysteries of life. Poe’s creations illustrate a powerful faculty for both the technical and abstract beauty linked with an inveterate inclination toward nocturnal themes.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most mysterious authors that the world of writing has known. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives".(Bloom 7 ). Many of Poe’s works can be related back to his life. Poe had many problems such as psychological illness, alcohol addiction, and gambling issues. There is also the fact that Poe’s life was full of heart aches such as the fact that everyone that Poe would grow to love would leave him or die. Since Poe’s works are so closely related to his life or inspired by his life struggles one can correctly assume

In most of Edgar Allen Poe's work we see him convey the same mood throughout all of his poems and short stories. He was well know for his dark, eerie and frightening way of writing which we can say was inspired by his dark past. As a child, he was first separated from his family, lost his foster mother to an terrible illness, and later on even lost his wife to the same fate. By loosing his family one after another, it could be said that these term of event lead him to develop this type of theme that in the end made him famous.

Have you ever wondered the reasons behind why some horror stories are so sinister? Have you ever read a horror story and told yourself that it would not happen in real life? Have your ever thought that you had a rough life growing up? Poe did not live to see his name really get the big praise it does now for his horror. Most of Poe’s life was filled with death of loved one’s and sadness which made him turn to writing poems and short stories. Edgar Allan Poe’s rough early life, relationships with women, and exposure to man’s evil human nature inspire the plots of his short story fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe had writings that have been widely used in literature for centuries. However, in his writings, you can also see his own personal struggles. Poe’s life could be considered to many depressing and could be the inspiration behind his dark stories. For example, like the narrator “Montresor” in the Cask of Amontillado, he struggles with the desire for revenge. In this short story, the narrator “Montresor” appears not to have a valid a motive for committing murder other than the fact Fortunato dislikes him. In this short story, you can see how Edgar Alan Poe could have the same struggles in his life.

Edgar Allan Poe had written several short stories such as “William Wilson,” “The Fall of the House and Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and couple poems such as “The Raven.” There is always something different about Poe’s writing. Most of the classical murders make a person ask “who did the murder?” but his writing “The Cask of Amontillado” makes us ask the question “why did the murder occur?” (Baraban). Every word he writes in his work has a purpose to it (Baraban) and he often does not depend on dialogue (Benton). His writings are full of literary devices such as ironies, foreshadowing, and setting and they are shown in one of his famous tales “The cask of Amontillado.”

“From childhood's hour I have not been as others were, I have not seen as others saw, I could not bring my passions from a common spring. And all I love I loved alone.” This is a quote from a poem that Poe wrote saying that he was not like other kids because all the people that he loved passed away when he was a child and an adult. These people were his mother his, foster

Edgar Allan Poe’s works, typically, reflects events that he has encountered in his life and lot of the obstacles he tried to overcome as a human being. Death, being the significant theme is constantly met in his works. The reason being is that Poe has been abandoned by his parents, and has dealt with the loss of his wife who’d fell ill from the disease tuberculosis, and that started his infatuation with death. Poe never fully recovered from the traumatic events, in which now his works reflects the mad man inside of him. Therefore, in his works

imagination, and suspense towards his readers. Moreover, the majority of Poe’s life relates to his

Edgar Allan Poe can be considered as one of America’s darkest poetry writers ever in american literature. He was most often remembered for the short stories he wrote. Most of his stories reflected based on his past, but none seemed to have had a happy ending. So what sparked inside of Poe to bring his ideas to life? In Poe’s literary works ”The Raven” and “The Bells” death predominates the style, characters, and symbols through the use of his vivid and original imaginations.

Edgar Allan Poe had a peculiar way with his work. He was adopted early in his life to be spared from poverty and heartache (Roberts and Zweig 226). But in the Big Read it is stated that he still felt a satisfaction from women’s suffering. Poe just wanted to be a writer and followed his passion into judging others work to support himself (Roberts and Zweig 226). Some say that he is selfish and indulgent. Sadly the death of Poe is still a mystery but his works affect people’s lives on a daily basis. The elegance of Poe’s prose invokes an emotional reaction he was subject to during his childhood that later led to the creation of the most influential works of the 19th Century.

Edgar Allen Poe was very fascinated with horror and death which he explored through his writings.The majority of his poems focused on the condition of fallen man. The tale he wrote were depressing and suspenseful. Poe was an emotional individual who went through a lot when he was young. Poe lost people who he love and did not really have much to hold onto onto or cherish. Especially at the beginning of writing poems, Poe could not get a poem published write away.Poe was very emotional, and so he took all of those emotions and distributed them to his poems. For example in the poem “The Raven” he says “From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore”(“The Raven”). Poe was heartbroken by the loss of his lover, so he wrote a poem about it. Just there in that sentence it shows how instead of getting angry and hurting someone, Poe took his emotions about things and wrote about it. That is a reason he is such a good poet and highly respected for his works. Poe was also very much into writing about horror and death. He has a poem called “Tell Tale Heart”. In that poem he talks about killing an old man who had an eye that bothered him(“Tell Tale Heart”). Throughout the poem it talks