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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poes parents were professional actors who died and orphaned Poe at the young age of 2. Poe was then adopted by John Allan a wealthy richmond family. He spent most of his childhood moving to Scotland and England where he would live for the next five years. Poe then moved back to America where he attended private school for two years.(Hirsh 2) In 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. There

Scarlett Neely Mr. Cascio English 1302-5 3 April 2016 John Keats John Keats was a young poet whose work continues to heavily influence the literary world today. His contributions to the Romantic Period are considered to some to be unmatched by even some of the more experienced poets of the time, including William Blake. Through his use of vivid imagery and magical language, Keats was able to paint beautiful pictures through his poems all while conveying deep philosophical meanings that were prevalent

Poe's childhood years were filled with sadness because of awful tragedies dealing with his mother death and father's abandonment. Poe was then sent to live with another family, the Allans, where he enrolled in school. Poe, now 18, traveled to Boston where he published his first set of poems. His military career was cut short after his foster mother died. His foster father remarries and he moves away. Poe struggled financially for many years in some idealized, glorified quest for freedom. During

his childhood, his cousin which later became his wife, and the deaths of many family members. These are just a few things that inspired his work.     One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous pieces is ‘The Raven.” “The inspiration to Poe's darkest and most well known poem, written in 1845, was a real raven that was the beloved pet of the writer Charles Dickens who named it Grip” (www.oswego.edu). Although literally, this poem seems that it is about a bird, if you dig deeper, you will realize that it is

Lord Alfred Tennyson is a Victorian poet who was born in Somersby, England in 1809. Tennyson was known for his dramatic writings, which represented the Victorian period. The way Tennyson wrote poetry was dramatically changed after the death of his dear friend, Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833. In honor of Hallam, Lord Alfred Tennyson dedicated In Memoriam to his deceased friend. In the poem, In Memoriam, Tennyson describes the grief and misery he felt in the poem in section LXVIII by explaining the amount

Edvard Munch, a professional painter and printmaker, was born on December 12th, 1863. In 1879, Munch began attending a technical college to study engineering in Christiania (now Oslo) Norway, but left a year later when his passion for art overtook his interest in engineering. In 1881, he enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design. Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on January 23rd, 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday. He had pneumonia, complicated by cardiovascular disease. The

Poe Story As Jacob fell into a deep slumber on a stormy night he heard a blast at his chamber door. He went to the door to check who it was, but no one was there. Instead a soggy envelope was at his door. It was mysteriously blank. He took it in his living room and set it next to the fire. He went to go back to bed when he heard mysterious voices. When he came to investigate, he saw the envelope next to the fireplace he opened it and it and written inside it said "Jacob come to the graveyard

Du Fu: Making the Best of Bad Times Du Fu was one of the greatest poets of China. Living during the Tang Dynasty, a golden age for literacy, poetry, and the civil service examination, Du Fu flourished as a poet. Although he was a civil servant for a great part of his life, it was not until the An Lushan Rebellion, which began in 755, that Du Fu’s career as a poet really began. Because the aesthetic behind his poetry was history and morality, Du Fu used the war and all bad that was around him to become

Poem Analysis: The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe wrote hundreds of poems, but none is better known than the Raven. The poem is still relevant in pop culture today, for example it was featured on an episode of The Simpsons. The Raven is a highly effective poem, as it uses many literary devices. The devices play a huge role in the effectiveness of the poem. The Raven starts out in the first stanza with a rhyming scheme is A,B,C,B,B,B. In all the following stanzas it is B,D,E,F. This external

The poem "The Raven" written by Edgar Allan Poe is one of Poe’s most famous poems, renowned for its gothic and melodramatic qualities. Poe uses literally devices to create a mood that pulls you into his world and symbolism that keeps your mind engulfed so that you feel every spine chilling detail you read. The title “The Raven” is a symbolism for a protagonist’s tormenting memories of a deceased woman named Lenore. Lenore’s premature death is the main focus of the narrator’s obsessive thoughts, even