Edgar Allan Poe's Tale

The words people use and how they use them holds so much power within themselves. It seems that, people are always searching for the right words to express their true emotions towards a certain subject. Artists and authors manage to make a living off of knowing how to use the right words to reach through to their platform. Though within his time, Edgar Allan Poe did not have an established platform and was seen as estranged; he still dabbled as an author and has made many famous short stories and poems that we enjoy to this day. Poe uses tone, diction, imagery, symbolism, elements of the supernatural, and allusions to illustrate his themes of sorrow, madness, revenge, and uses these to project and give refuge to his inner

Mysteries have always held great fascination for the human mind, not least because of the aura that surrounds them and the realm of the Unknown into which they delve. Coupled with the human propensity of being particularly curious about aspects which elude the average mind, the layer of intrigue that glosses over such puzzles makes for a heady combination of the literary and the popular. In the canon of detective fiction worldwide, no detective has tickled the curious reader’s imagination and held it in thrall as much as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The 221-B, Baker Street, London ‘amateur’ detective combines a rare blend of intellectual prowess and sharp wit to crack a series of baffling riddles.

According to the English crime writer P.D. James (1920-) “for a book to be described as detective fiction there must be a central mystery and one that by the end of the book is solved satisfactorily and logically, not by good luck or intuition, but by intelligent deduction from clues honestly if deceptively presented.” (James. 2009: 16). This is traditionally conducted via a detective; a figure deployed within the narrative structure ‘whose occupation is to investigate crimes’ (Oxford. 2006: 202). Therefore detective fiction represents an enigma, a puzzle to be solved through an intriguing series of events and clues presented by the writer to its audience; that are taken on a journey through a process of reasoning, elimination and

Edgar Allan Poe was a skilled writer; he wrote many books that involved horror and mystery. Poe started his writing career editing newspapers and writing short stories. One may assume that Poe wrote these panicked stories to tell others about his own life. Influenced by his tragic childhood, Edgar Allan Poe started writing horror and mysterious stories.

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

In Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe states, “We loved with a love that was more than love.” This saying is used by thousands of people everyday to their soul mate. The American Renaissance, which began in 1828 through 1865. Poe was an Anti-Transcendentalist, he wrote mostly about self-destruction (sin). Edgar Allan Poe enjoyed writing about death, sinful acts, and how others felt towards sin.

Crime fiction became popular in the 1840’s with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, however scientific crime fiction has been credited to Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This fictional detective, made his first appearance in The Strand Magazine short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in 1891 and appeared in four novels and 56 short stories. One of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous novels is “The Hound of the Baskervilles” featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as detectives who are responsible for solving the mystery and the family curse of “The Hound”. In the novel, there is a “supernatural” hound, but with Holmes’ deductive and scientific reasoning reveals the

Starting from early years, Poe’s existence was marked by dramas. Moreover, most of his life was darkened, shortened and humiliated by hardships he had to face. In spite of short periods of recovery, the feelings of disillusion continued to shadow and ravage him. His father left the family when Poe was scarcely two. His mother, an actress, had to bring-up her children, accepting dozens of parts on different stages. Unfortunately, her struggle did not last long, for she soon died. She was only 24. Poe could not have a clear memory of his mother, yet, for the rest of his life he had with him her tiny daguerreotype. After the unhappy event, the children were brought up by different families. Mr. Allan, who adopted Edgar, did his best to give

     Edgar Allan Poe was a literary genius of his time. His works may seem eccentric but beneath the words and stories lies a solemn, alone boy whose only way of comfort and relief was through his pen. Of the critical reviews I have studied pertaining to Poe, never has such a varied difference of opinions been presented or suggested towards a writer. It is thought that his life had a major influence on his writing and by reading many of his pieces I agree with that statement.

Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most prolific writers of all time. Known for his dark and atmospheric stories, he has influenced multiple writers of many genres and has had many famous of work that continues to be studied even today and will continue to be studied in the future. What makes Poe such an interesting writer and a write that continues to be studied even now? One of the things that are commonly seen in his pieces of work is the use of symbolism. His use of symbolism truly enhances his pieces of work and it is what makes his work relevant to be studied in modern times. The symbolism in his stories are a great discussion because when he leaves a lot of these questions unanswered in his story, it equates to a multiple amount of theories about why things are happening in the story and why Poe wanted to put it in the story. Symbolism can really give stories a deeper meaning and with his stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Masque of the Red Death” this holds true. Poe touches on many similar subjects involving death, murder, and haunting atmospheres.

The literary person that I choose to write about is Edgar Allan Poe. I choose Edgar Allan Poe because he is widely acknowledgeable as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator when it comes to the science fiction category. The reason I picked Poe is because I like the way he writes and how it’s kind of spooky and mysterious his poems and short stories The time period Edgar Allan Poe lived in affected his life and the way he wrote literature.

In 1944 the literary critic Edmund Wilson wrote an exasperated essay in the pages of The New Yorker titled “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?’’ Wilson, who at the time was about to go abroad to cover the allied bombing campaign on Germany, felt that he had grown out the detective genre at the age of twelve, by that time he had read through the stories from the early masters of the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Even tho everyone he knew seemed to be addicted the genre. His wife at that time, Mary McCarthy, was in the habit of recommending her favorite detective novels to their émigré pal Vladimir Nabokov; she gave him H. F. Heard’s beekeeper whodunit “A Taste for Honey,” which he enjoyed while recovering

KYLO REN, mysterious masked bunny, confronts MAX VON SYDOW, an old bunny. FIN, a storm-trooper bunny, panics.

In the mid-19th century, exploration of the new America was popular among the people. Poets during this time liked to write about adventure and new pristine worlds untouched by man. Edgar Allan Poe on the other hand used his own style of writing, that used dark symbolism and complex plots to excite the readers. Having seen death and understanding the feeling it brings, Poe had an easy time writing the great stories/poems that we know today.

The Golden Age of detective fiction refers to both specific sub-genre and (the cozy) and the historical period (the interwar years) (James, 2009). It is loosely defined as a soft-boiled detective fiction released between the two wars (World War 1 and World War 2). The Golden age of detective fiction was arguably caused by the interwar period (James, 2009). This paper seeks to discuss, with references to the fictions of Agatha Christie and other canonical Golden Age texts, why the Detection fiction of the interwar period was described as a “Golden Age." During this period, the detective novels were largely characterized by their intellectual games between the reader and author, and the clue-based mysteries (Scaggs, 2005). In this era, a Detection Club that consisted of renowned detective authors, agreed on rules that a writer of detective fiction was to operate. One of these rules was the “Cluepuzzle." From the clues, both the reader and detective were to ensure they drew rational conclusions. Other rules agreed upon included the crime, the detective, the setting, and the criminal.  These rules made the Golden Age a distinct sub-genre within the context of crime fiction. It was during this period that the spinster detectives became more popular, especially on the fictional stage. Prior to this era, detectives were dominated by men, with women taking the roles of villains or victims. Women rarely played a role of the main protagonists (Scaggs, 2005). To this effect, women