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By Annie Asdal and Kathleen Ayers
“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expected that it soon will be so.”
• Parents’ death.
• Adopted by John Allan.
•1825 - UVA
•Military experience.
•1836 - Married Virginia Clemm.
•Virginia’s death.
•Poe’s decline in mental health.
•DEATH
•LOVE
•BEAUTY
•LIFE
•SUPERNATURAL
ALLITERATION
PERSONIFICATION
RHYME/RHYTHM
REPETITION
How Poe’s life affects his poetry
o Wife diedo Unhappy relationship with John Allano Military = killing/deatho Insanity
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe
•“Unearthly” element
• “Horror tales”
•“Pre-adolescent”
•“Artificial”
•“Sardonic cynicism”
•“Unemotional” input
•“Philosophical”
What the critics say...
• Unearthly element/horror tales:– Haunted Palace -Conqueror Worm – City in the Sea -- Fairy-Land
• Pre-adolescent/artificial-The Raven-The Bells
• Philosophical– Imaginary element overrides
reality– Philosophy = search for general
understanding of values and reality
• Unemotional – it is emotional!– Death and loss– Love
Poe’s own Life
And all my days are trances And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy dark eye glances And where thy footstep gleams— To One in Paradise
Works Cited:
Edgar Allan Poe Quotations. April 20, 2004. <www.memorablequotations.com/poe.htm>
“Edgar Allan Poe”, DISCovering Authors 3.0. CD-ROM. Gale Group, 1999.
“Philosophy”. Merriam- Webster Dictionary Online. April 20, 2004 <http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary>.
T.S. Eliot. “Edgar Allan Poe Criticism.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Haris. Volume 1. New York: Gale, 1981.
Edgar Allan Poe. April 26, 2004. <http://www.online-literature.com/poe/>.
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Works Cited:
Edgar Allan Poe Quotations. April 20, 2004. <www.memorablequotations.com/poe.htm>
“Edgar Allan Poe”, DISCovering Authors 3.0. CD-ROM. Gale Group, 1999.
“Philosophy”. Merriam- Webster Dictionary Online. April 20, 2004 <http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary>.
T.S. Eliot. “Edgar Allan Poe Criticism.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Haris. Volume 1. New York: Gale, 1981.
Edgar Allan Poe. April 26, 2004. <http://www.online-literature.com/poe/>.
Pictures:http://www.decablog.com/trouble/pix.html
http://www.travel-watch.com/mario/images/wpe4E6.jpghttp://www.photographybyandrew.com/infrared.htm
http://www.bath.ac.uk/event/raven.jpg
That’s All for Now Folks!