Silence the Sadness
Silence the Sadness
Scott Eyman's review on the novel A Life Lived Off Balance, written by Peter Ackroyd, is a look into Edgar Allan Poe's complex mind and vigorous life. Eyman shares his thoughts through describing Poe's tortured childhood, Poe's reasoning behind his poems, and Poe's unstable mind. Poe was a tortured misfit whose depression was portrayed through his work. Eyman aspires to depict the circumstances Poe went through, and how his brilliant work is as result of an inadequate life.
Eyman goes on to explain his opinion on Ackroyd, and how Ackroyd described Poe as a deliberate imp who was alone all his life (Eyman). Edgar Allan Poe once said “It was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.” (Eyman). I agree with Eyman when he states “Poe's actual humour, when glimpsed in his not non-fiction, is a clumping mechanism completely absent from the hysterical conviction that populates his nightmarish stories.”(Eyman). What he means by this is that Poe's humour is various gathered thoughts coming together, and has nothing to do with being hysterical, which is what his fiction stories seem to portray. Eyman wrote that Poe was damaged and his humour, was much more dark than that, due to his tortured life. Eyman did not agree with Akroyd's thoughts on how Poe had 'inside jokes' inside his stories (Eyman). In my opinion, Scott Eyman executed a very intriguing article and did a substantial job explaining Poe's life. The article Its a Fine Line Between Genius and Madness by Jay Ingram, explains that creativity is directly associated with mental illness (Ingram). Eyman supports this point by explaining that Poe's most successful pieces (for example, The Raven), were an outcome from the times he was mentally unstable (Eyman). Poe had such horrifying life that he was, in my opinion, mad. His mind was a complex series of dark thoughts and stories who only a literary genius with an array of mental issues, could execute. Although he was broke
Scott Eyman's review on the novel A Life Lived Off Balance, written by Peter Ackroyd, is a look into Edgar Allan Poe's complex mind and vigorous life. Eyman shares his thoughts through describing Poe's tortured childhood, Poe's reasoning behind his poems, and Poe's unstable mind. Poe was a tortured misfit whose depression was portrayed through his work. Eyman aspires to depict the circumstances Poe went through, and how his brilliant work is as result of an inadequate life.
Eyman goes on to explain his opinion on Ackroyd, and how Ackroyd described Poe as a deliberate imp who was alone all his life (Eyman). Edgar Allan Poe once said “It was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.” (Eyman). I agree with Eyman when he states “Poe's actual humour, when glimpsed in his not non-fiction, is a clumping mechanism completely absent from the hysterical conviction that populates his nightmarish stories.”(Eyman). What he means by this is that Poe's humour is various gathered thoughts coming together, and has nothing to do with being hysterical, which is what his fiction stories seem to portray. Eyman wrote that Poe was damaged and his humour, was much more dark than that, due to his tortured life. Eyman did not agree with Akroyd's thoughts on how Poe had 'inside jokes' inside his stories (Eyman). In my opinion, Scott Eyman executed a very intriguing article and did a substantial job explaining Poe's life. The article Its a Fine Line Between Genius and Madness by Jay Ingram, explains that creativity is directly associated with mental illness (Ingram). Eyman supports this point by explaining that Poe's most successful pieces (for example, The Raven), were an outcome from the times he was mentally unstable (Eyman). Poe had such horrifying life that he was, in my opinion, mad. His mind was a complex series of dark thoughts and stories who only a literary genius with an array of mental issues, could execute. Although he was broke