Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest writers and poets of antebellum America, was born a month before the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. This often mysterious man lived a short, hard life he was orphaned at the age of three, impoverished most of his life and died at the age of forty. Writing styles are often influenced by the author's life, his was no exception. The struggles in Edgar Allan Poe's life greatly influenced the writing style of this great American writer of many great works such as The Black Cat and Tell-Tale Heart.…
Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant author who wrote amazing stories and poems using various emotional effects. Throughout his lifetime he went through lots of tragedy and personal conflicts. Within his pieces of literature he uses his creative writing style abilities by making readers feel emotional effects such as horror and sorrow. With all of his past conflicts, I believe it made him a lot better at connecting to readers in other ways certain authors couldn’t. Poe’s style is characterized by his use of sound imagery, irony, and repeated elements.…
Sylvia Plath, an extremely influential and beloved female poet who lived in the mid-20th century, was the author of numerous poems as well as the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. Her work, especially that of her adult life, heavily reflects the darkness and depression that she dealt with. Plath, born in October of 1932, began writing at a very young age. Her first published work, titled simply “Poem”, was published before she had even turned ten. Plath wrote many short stories during her early years, and she even won several writing competitions. One of these was a fiction contest that earned her a position as guest editor at Mademoiselle…
“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague, who shall say where one ends and another begins” -Edgar Allan Poe…
Being exposed to different kinds of poetry from childhood, I grew fond of it though now I prefer fictional prose to poetry. As a profoundly sensuous form of creative writing, poetry both challenges my mind and conquers my aesthetic sense with its subtle wording. But specifically because it is a thought provoking and demanding form of writing I do not read poetry often. Therefore, the variety of topics, styles and forms of poems collected in Alehouse Journal 2011 disoriented me completely. However, the poems were carefully selected and united under the common styles, topics, and forms. Dreams was one of such topics. The complex nature of dreams make them one of the most prolific topics in poems.…
I choose the poem Fire and Ice , by Robert Frost, becauce it is a topic that its comon in the meaning that it is somenthing that all of us have thought about in some point of our lifes. And i agree with Frost, he did the poem because of his desire of warning people of two problems i the humanity. and that human emotions are destructive when alowed to run amok. And it is very interesting the way that he demostred that through methaphors, alliteration and repetition.…
Reading “The Raven” gives everyone chills, but think of it as a raven actually talking to someone and BOOM, the raven predicts the future. “The Raven” is about a guy that loses his loved one and the raven says that he is not willing to see his loved one for the rest of her life. The raven is fake and make-believe because of its very strange movements, symbolism, and meaningful purpose.…
Authors can create suspense in their story´s by using tools in their writing such as punctuation, imagery, hyperboles, and repetition. Like in the story ¨The Tell-Tale Heart¨ by Edgar Allan Poe when he uses words such as dreadfully, conceived, haunted, vulture, killed, cautiously, and scarcely. An example would be in the first half of the story when the narrator says ¨Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold¨. It is the certain dialogue that really gets you and makes you sometimes feel uncomfortable. The choice of words in a story really tells if it's suspenseful or not. Edgar Allan Poe really digs deep into his stories and captivates his readers in a scary way. In the story it says ¨They heard!-they suspected!-they knew!-they were making…
The irony of the story was that the people of that village believed they had found an easy solution for disposing of their waste. What they didn’t know was that what they had thrown down the hole, was ironically being thrown back to them, on their heads. When the hole was believed to have no bottom, it seemed like an amazing idea just to dispose of unwanted things where it was believed it was "gone" forever. When It was really just “swept under the rug.”…
Edgar Allan Poe is an ever famous poet and idol to many young inspiring authors. We learn about his works in school and come to appreciate his dark and cynical worldview. Although Poe is admired for his expertise in the horror and detective genres there is still one case that is yet to be solved; no one is sure how this beloved poet died. Experts have come up with two probabilities on the cause of his death. One explanation is that Poe had died of alcohol poisoning, as he did have a drinking problem in his early years.…
Edgar Allan Poe was one of America’s most celebrated poet and story teller. His life started early with misfortune. Both of his parents were already dead, when Edgar was 3 years old. His father died of tuberculosis and his mother died of tuberculosis and pneumonia. He was adopted and attended school until he was 17 years old. He started the abuse of alcohol with 17 and he started gambling. As his adopting father figured out, he stopped all financial supports of his adopted son. Edgar had to leave the University and he enlisted in the U.S. military, and later obtained a military school. Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from the military school after one year attending. During…
Many poems, although very unique, share important features that help us as the audience better understand what people go through in their lifetime. There are instances where the reader can feel what the poet is feeling and that is what makes a great poet differ from an ordinary poet. As in anything, poetry is subjective to each individual and one person might look at a piece of poetry one way or experience it another way. In the poem, “Alone”, by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker of the poem who is Poe, shows his true self to the reader and is not ashamed to hide anything. He is interpreting his life and wants the reader to understand him. This is similar to the poem in Spanish, “El Poeta” by Pablo Neruda. Another important poem is the French poem,…
After penning this poem, Ralph Waldo Emerson labeled Poe, the jingle man. Poe, however, retorted by explicating his poetic methodology, in his essay, The Philosophy of Composition. In it, the author explained why his poems techniques were the most enduring in literature. He spent his life refusing to appease the people who could help him most and he defied social custom, time and again. Rufus Griswold was merely the by-product of Poe’s personality he became the literary executor of the writer once he had died and meticulously set out ruining Poe’s reputation. If we know Poe as a dark crazy loon, we have Griswold to…
For my song I picked Garth Brooks “The River.” I consider this song to be very meaningful. This song is about chasing your dreams and never giving up on what you believe in, reminding us that life is shorter than we think and if we just stand on the shore watching the river go by, then life will be gone before we know it. Garth Brooks uses a lot of psychological concepts in this song, such as, Attitude, Affect, Motivation, Optimism, and Behavior. Garth Brooks says, “A dream is like a river.” A dream changes, just like a river changes. As life changes, the river can be calm then strong then calm again, so our path in life change. Garth Brooks says that “He will sail his vessel until the river runs dry.” To me this mean no matter what life throws…
Many authors are influenced by other authors. A lot of authors used their life experiences to write their literature. This a prime example of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe became an influential writer, because of his childhood, his important occurrences in his life, and how he influenced other writers.…
