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 died

o Unhappy relationship with John Allan

o Military = killing/death

o 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/>.

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That’s All for Now Folks!