The Dark Romanticism Of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his deep and dark short stories. He is also known for being the greatest literary author of all time. Poe was a mysterious man that combined all his traits into one story. All of Poe’s stories had some sort of darkness to them, some used a little bit of love and romance, but all lead to the same result usually.

The Romantic Period is characterized as an artistic and intellectually stimulating literary movement. Writers of this genre and time are considered to be those who fused the elements of romance in their writings to enhance the human experience. Edgar Allan Poe, known as the father of the modern short story, epitomizes this notion in his writings. In “Annabel Lee,” and “The Oval Portrait,” Edgar Allan Poe uses romance to illustrate the essence of death and misery and to illustrate elements in which the reader can actually feel that was is happening in the story is happening to them.

Dark Romanticism is a type of writing that involves the dark side of life itself. It's insanity, mystery, horror, and all things dark. The ability to fabricate these stories takes a mind who can see and feel the dark. Througout most tales it's clear that insanity is a base for the stories. Examples include “Berenice” in which the mind becomes paranoid and leads a man to take actions he wouldn't have if sane. In many stories it's clear that there may even be a fascination with the mind's abilty to lead a person to insanity. Like in most of Allen's tales this darkness enters ones life after traumatic experiences. The death of both Allen's parents leads to his adoption and the start with a new estranged family. His wife also passed away after contracting tuberculosis. All these periods of darkness is what could have inspired

Edgar Allan Poe had a hard time growing up. He first lived with his mother, father, brother, and sister, although he did not know them very well because his father left very early in his life and his brother William and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was only three years old. He then went to live the Allan family and soon created a bond with his mother Frances Allan but had a harder time connecting with his father. His father brought him down to his writing and thought that he should do the family job because he needed the help and thought it would be more beneficial. Poe was

Poe often used depressed tones and imagery to create a dark kind of feeling to his work. The death of Edgar Allen Poe’s young wife put a bitter resentment in the writer. He felt like he was cursed and that the heavens stole his joy and claimed that the angel envied their happiness. Poe was accused of rumors and scandals his whole life, afflicted with depression, pinned down by phobias and horrific fantasies, and his writing reflects the madness in every lover’s heart. (Harris 60) In many of Edgar Allen Poe’s writings, he used gothic elements to express his pain and revealed the darker side of human nature.

Poe often used depressed tones and imagery to create a dark kind of feeling to his work. The death of Edgar Allen Poe’s young wife put a bitter resentment in the writer. He felt like he was cursed and that the heavens stole his joy and claimed that the angel envied their happiness. Poe was accused of rumors and scandals his whole life, afflicted with depression, pinned down by phobias and horrific fantasies, and his writing reflects the madness in every lover’s heart. (Harris 60) In many of Edgar Allen Poe’s writings, he used gothic elements to express his pain and revealed the darker side of human nature.

Edgar Allan Poe’s bone-chilling style of literature was widely appreciated in his specific time period, The Romance Era, due to Poe’s use of suspense and mystifying diction within his short stories. During this time, appreciation of the beauties of nature were enhanced, influencing Poe’s perplexing type of literature he enjoyed making. Edgar Allan Poe was best known for his macabre and eerie style works of writing, mostly influenced by his gloomy past and childhood, and the fact of being a popular writer during the Romance Era, a movement that originated in Europe and influenced a variety of artists from music to literature. Poe was amongst the many writers and artists whose works were inspired to include higher

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and was found barely conscious on a Baltimore street in 1949 two years after his wife’s death. Three days later Poe was dead at the age of forty. Just like the way he lived his life and died, many of his stories and poems were a mystery. Two of his most famous works “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Raven” were dark and mysterious fictions with dark characters and mysterious plots. “The Cask of Amontillado” was a story about the dark act of satanic pursuit of revenge, unlike “The Raven” which invited us into the soul of a grieving man. Both stories were essential and gave meaning to what Poe was going through during those years of his life. His wife was sick and dying from “tuberculosis” (385). He had

Out of all of Poe’s works, at least ninety percent of them are dark or have a depressing meaning. I do believe that he wrote those dark stories because of his depressing life. The three most important women in his life died from tuberculosis. His mother when he was two, his foster mother when he was twenty, and sadly, his wife when he was thirty-eight. Poe’s early life was full of hardships, anyone he got close to seemed to die or disappear. Events like these could emotionally scar anyone and you can see that it affected Poe in his works “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”.

First of all, Edgar Allan Poe had a rough childhood. His mom, Eliza, was an actress and she died when he was only three years old. His father, David, was also an actor, but he left them before his mom died. So, Edgar Allan Poe was left without his parents at the age of three years old. After his mother’s death, he was adopted by John and Frances Allan and separated from his siblings. They raised him and when he was old enough sent him to the university of Virginia. After a year he was forced to leave because he had a drinking problem and had gambling debts that his adopted father wouldn’t pay. Ever since then he and his adopted father grew further and further apart. After that, he joined the army and got the title of sergeant major. He then married and his wife died in 1847 leaving Edgar Allan Poe heart broken. Poe’s rough past played a major part in influencing his writing. His life was very depressing and you can see it in the

From Annabel Lee to The Raven, his work is described as dark and distinctive. He is known for his extremely gothic tales. For example, when analyzing the short story The Tell-Tale Heart it's easy to see that he pulled his thoughts from the deepest part of his mind. In The Tell-Tale Heart a madman describes the steps he took into watching and then murdering an old man because of his eye. The culprit defends himself saying he isn't a madman, when obviously he is. "You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me." Poe goes into great detail with the description of what the speaker does every night watching the old man. It's as if Poe had experienced something like that himself firsthand, but no Edgar Allan Poe pulled this short story from his own imagination. Poe's elements when it comes to literature are very unique. The Tell-Tale Heart is a great example. When thinking of Edgar Allen Poe's writing style the words that come to mind are elaborate and cryptic. He uses very sophisticated words to tell stories about deep-dark events that take

Edgar Allen Poe’s stories during the American Romantic movement promoted the emotional aspects of literature and rejected the intellectual parts. Dark Romantics believed that people are prone to sin and self-destruction and that the world was full of mystery and supernatural creatures were common throughout literature during that period. Poe is best known for his Gothic Fiction works with themes that deal with death, guilt, love, and mentally deteriorating people. These themes are especially present in his well-known short stories and poems such as “The Cast of Amontillado,” “The Raven,” and “The Tell Tale heart.” Throughout these works of art Poe wittily uses irony, symbolism and wordplay to convey the deeper messages that lie within his

Edgar Allen Poe has created many stories that are dark, suspenseful, and murderous such as The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat. His works tend to resemble one another in style, mood, theme, and plot. The ways in which these elements are displayed show contrast between the two. The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat are two brutal tales with similar themes about being insane. Both stories are told from the first person point of view with a maniacal narrator.

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

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) born in the United States was a poet, writer, critic, and journalist recognized as one of the greatest exponents of the Dark Romanticism (Ultan and Olson, 51). Dark Romanticism is an American literary subgenre emerged in the nineteenth century from the philosophical movement called transcendentalism. Dark Romanticism, broadly speaking, rely very little on perfection as an innate quality of the human being, a key idea of the transcendentalists (Howard, 1). As consequence, its characters are prone to sin and self-destruction, since by nature, they are not wise or divine beings. One of the most representative authors of the current is Poe, who is