Edgar Allan Poe Writer of Short Story

 

      This blog is based on classroom activity named "Citation". 

                        The name Edgar Allan Poe conjures images of madmen, murderers and mysterious women who return from the dead. Most famous for his narrative works such as The Raven and the Tell Tale Heart, Poe has been described as the father of Gothic literature. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, though Poe made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. His legacy today remains focused on his tales of terror and haunting lyric poetry.

                 Poe spent many years drowned in bouts of poverty and depression, attempting to deal with his misfortunes through a mixture of drugs and alcohol. Precarious jobs, alcohol and drugs, may have diminished Poe's health, but this did not dampen his creativity, if anything it bolstered his talent. 

            Poe's life was as dark as his tales. He died under mysterious circumstances just a few weeks before Halloween and the exact cause of his death has never been determined.Despite all the obvious seasonal association , Poe would have resented being labeled " The poet of halloween". A genre he invented to science fiction to uproarious slapstick tales that involve a talking mummy.

           Poe's begin at the end philosophy by opening with his horrible and mysterious death. Poe, drunk and delirious around Baltimore to cast votes. "I have an inventret habit of speaking truth", Poe once wrote. If you take Poe's best horror story at face value , they are wonderfully , flawlessly , terrifying , they are also dripig with contempt. Most of the Poe's stories have this campy,floozy "Boo!"  buisness at the end.

                  Edgar Allan Poe was a bizarre and often scary writer. People throught history have often wondered why his writing were so fantastically different and unusual. They came from a tense & miserable life.

                  None of Poe's character could ever be normal, since they lived in the bizarre world. All of his hero's are usually alone and if they are on their way to becoming so rapidly.  Another point is Poe writing these stories as he result of a tortured existence and a need to escape or was he writing to please readers and critic..? He also displays very much morbid characteristics and some cases, sadistic. His murderess always seem to delight in killing their victims in the most painful and agonizing way. Still, terror seems to be the main theme. That is what Poe tries to bring about in his stories.

       In many of his stories , Poe uses his main character as a first person narrator to heighten suspence and draw readers into the characters situation.  It also gives readers an intimate view of the characters psyche and provide an additional layer of realism to Poe's stories, allowing the readers to feel more connected to and therefore more afraid for the characters.

           As a conclusion, Poe's all stroies and writing style overall have impact of spookyness and that is why with his ability to draw such horrible situation makes him spooky Writer.

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