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    raven in the famous book by Edgar Allen Poe‚ The Raven‚ is completely imaginary in my opinion. The way he portrays it the raven is almost ghostly and all in the narrator’s head. The bird starts to talk in this poem‚ which is impossible for a “raven” to do. The raven also is personified and twisted with words by Edgar to make it seem like the burden of his loss Lenore that lives with him every day. The bird is not real in this poem and is just simply a figment of Edgars imagination. The bird talks

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    After birth in 1809‚ Edgar suffered from a poor childhood‚ upon the loss of Elizabeth at age two‚ and an elusive father. Parentless‚ primary years were spent with a foster family‚ the Allans‚ in England‚ while Edgar attended boarding school. After returning to Richmond‚ he attended the University of Virginia for one year‚ and after oppressive gambling debts‚ Poe’s foster father‚ John‚ withdrew support of Poe. After leaving for Boston‚ he published the first set of poems and joined the military

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    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

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    How does Edgar Allan Poe create atmosphere and build tension in The Tell Tale Heart?   The Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the story is written using  the ‘gothic’ style language and fits into this genre because Poe builds up the  atmosphere‚ suspense and tension this way‚ the story is set at night in a house‚ the  gothic style contributes to the readers mind and reaction of tension in several different  ways‚ Poe uses a narrator to tell the story and who murders an old man that he is living 

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    main theory’s to how Poe actually died. One of the theories to Poe’s death is that Poe died from alcohol. This theory explains that because of Poe being drunk he had got an illness from the cold and rain leading to a faster death. the second theory states that Poe had been bit by an animal and had died from rabies. No one knows for sure how he died and we may never know the mystery. However‚ I believe the well-known literary genius died from alcohol I think this because Poe was a known drinker and

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    Edgar Allan Poe’s The Philosophy of Composition was written in 1846‚ and according to my perception of what he writes‚ it was first of its kind. None before him had dared to reveal their creative process‚ as difficult and complex as it is‚ and for this they received particular criticism from Poe himself. It seems to me‚ that although he respects that other writers consider the creative process a secret or merely a sled of unexpected mind twists and mysterious thought processes‚ he himself wanted

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    living. Not only the themes are similar in both men’s work but also the details through which a story is written or shown. The similar themes and narrative techniques can be seen clearly in ’The Fall of the House of Usher’ and in Psycho. For both Poe and Hitchcock‚ madness exists in the world. ’The Fall of the House of Usher’ and Psycho are two very similar studies in madness. Roderick Usher and Norman Bates [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705jPpxq1JQ] are both insane. They have many common traits

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    Kaleb Clem Mrs. Winslow English II Honors 31 October 2012 “The Tell-Tale Hearts” – “The Black Cat” Comparison “The Tell-Tale Hearts” and “The Black Cat” are two stories that share more similarities than differences. The plots both start out the same with a main character whose actions throughout the story makes apparent to the reader his insanity and have to deal with the internal and external dilemmas that are caused by the evil deeds‚ which both happen to be involved with murder‚ due to

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    The Unique Aesthetics of Allan Poe’s Horror Tales Abstract: My study is aiming at an approach to Poe’s horror tales dealing with his unique aesthetics. The paper is devoted to give a detailed analysis of some of Poe’s most famous horror tales in three aspects: Gothic Writing Style‚ Vivid Psychological Description‚ and Death of Beauty. Keyword: Aesthetics‚ Gothicism‚ Psychology‚ Death of Beauty Chapter One Introduction of Poe’s Aesthetics Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has been held among the greatest

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    supernatural. After the war American writers were filled with optimism‚ being part of the melting pot in the United States‚ reflecting on ordinary people‚ respecting wilderness‚ and having faith in just about anything. In the Dr. Heidegger’s experiment Hawthorne used these characteristics to illustrate a novel about the glorious Fountain of Youth. Many consider the experiment not to belong to the Romantic period; however he uses imagination‚ common man‚ and nature to write a riveting novel. (Imagination)

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