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Arthur Gordon Pym U S Military
1,742 wordsEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. Poe's stormy personal life and his haunting poems and stories combined to make him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. Poe's influence on literature has been immense. His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is considered the first modern detective story. His reviews of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne mark him as the first significant theorist of the modern s...
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House Of Usher Shelleys Frankenstein
934 wordsRunning head: ELEMENTAL GOTHIC Elemental Gothic May 28, 2009 Elemental Gothic Gothic literature is rooted back to the Romantic movement of the 19 th century. Shortly after the first literature works has appeared, this movement has gained popularity and embraced a number of works in short story, novels, dramatic, artistic, poetic ad cinematic works. The essay examines the elements of gothic and compares and contrasts the use of gothic elements in Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Alan Poe's gothic...
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Edgar Allen Poe Facts On File
706 wordsEdgar Allen Poe: A Brilliant Writer Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most brilliant writers of the nineteenth century. His short stories and poems consist of horror, mortality, romantic struggle, and psychological concept. Poe's tales labeled him as a master in his study of instability of self-control, the restrain of emotion, and access of feeling (Abby 348). His literary works were based on his personal background; therefore, many have similar characteristics. Poe was a manic depressant, and fre...
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Edgar Allan Poe Beautiful Annabel Lee
1,867 wordsSearching For Beauty Edgar Allan Poe is a man constantly searching for beauty to depart from the mental and moral ugliness in his life. This reflects in his the poetry and short stories. Poe sees evil as a major threat to himself and to man due to the fact that he lives in its presence. It is easy to establish this fact when looking at the tragedies in his own life relating to the deaths of his young mother, wife, and others he loved. It is no wonder that he sees the absence of beauty as evil, b...
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Edgar Allan Poe Cask Of Amontillado
1,498 wordsWhen picking a topic for my research paper. I thought of many different ideas. I started to think about my interests is reading literature, and I decided to write about my favorite author Edgar Allan Poe. This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. There seems to be few attempts to look at the psychological causes of humor in Poe's work, and how his personal life may have had an impact on his writings. Many of Poe's tales are distinguished by the authors unique grotesque...
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House Of Usher Fall Of The House
361 wordsI found Edgar Allan Poe s writings to be both interesting and fascinating. Poe s stories and poems leave the reader with a sense of fear, uncertainty and death. I enjoyed reading the stories that explored the darker sides of its characters. In The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado and The Fall of the House of Usher the reader senses that something terrible is going to happen in the beginning of these writings. In some of Poe s writings, one finds a sense of passion and affection. In Annabelle Lee, ...
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