How Does Darkness Affect Poe's Life

Consumed by Darkness Edgar Allan Poe is now a household name, seen as an innovator to both those pursuing film and creative writing, and finally, a man, with a dark history who brought about change to modern day literature. Poe was extraordinary, brilliant and dark by the accounts of many. He is often expressed as the father of modern day detective stories, short stories, and the genre of horror. Poe was inventive and pursued what many dared not to pursue - the darkness within the human soul. This is one of the many reasons that Poe’s work is taught in schools across the United States and abroad - in order to broaden the scope of readers and writers alike. Poe was greatly influenced by his history and by the current events and people that
He was sent to one of the best boarding schools as well as to the University of Virginia due to his caring foster parents, however, although he excelled greatly in academics, during his first year of university, Poe succumbed to gambling. John Allan refused to pay the debts he had allocated and Poe was forced to drop out of University, came home to find that his fiancé was engaged to another and his route in life was forever changed as even relations between Poe and his foster father were never the same. As a result, he enlisted in the US army and published the first of his poems in that same year, 1827. Upon, leaving the army Poe, without financial support to attend school again, moved in with his Aunt and began to sell short stories to magazines to increase his income. He eventually became an editor, and immersed himself into his profession for the next ten years. During these ten years, he married Virginia, who was only a mere 14 years, and became a renowned editor, poet, and short story writer with the works of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “the Murders in the Roe Morgue,” and “The Raven,” all being published in this
Sadly, during his lifetime, Poe was not seen as the literary phenomenon that he is now, and his writings were greatly dismissed by the United States and Great Britain for almost 50 years after his death, until the famous French poet Charles Baudelaire announced that Poe’s work was genius, and slowly, Poe became famous. Now, Poe’s face is recognizable by most Americans, and is seen in cartoons and band album covers, and his works became a literary reading requirement in most high schools across the States. His fame has spread over the past century and continuous to impact modern society. Poe was accredited with the invention of the genre of horror as well as the creation of the detective story. His sleuth that was mentioned before, Duplin, depicted something that had never been pursued before - the element of mystery with police and detective work involved. The author Conan Doyle claims that Poe’s work is a “model for all of time” and stated that Poe’s work impacted and influence the creation of his tales called the “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” the most famous, fictional, detective of modern day. Not only was Poe the creator of these two major literary pursuits, but also is highly acclaimed concerning the understanding and the production of mood and setting. Many