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Title: Edgar Allen Poe


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Edgar Allen Poe
  • 1809-1849

2
Beginnings
  • Born in Boston to traveling actors
  • _at_2 father abandoned mother died
  • Raised by John Allan a wealthy tobacco merchant
  • Shaky relationship
  • Never formally adopted as heir

3
Poe as a Young Adult
  • Dropped out of U of VA substantial debt
    (gambling)
  • Army 2 years
  • _at_20 worked as editor of magazine
  • Married his 13 year old cousin
  • To keep her from being split from family
  • Never consummated relationship, loved her in a
    brotherly way

4
  • Began writing for a magazine
  • Became emotionally unstable/bouts of
    drunkenness?? (couldnt tolerate alcohol, lesion
    on brain opium to control pain)
  • Never happy, always looking to future
  • Wife died _at_24 he was then with many women,
    engaged twice
  • Found dead in Baltimore, unconscious on sidewalk

5
Literary Achievements
  • Poes literary criticism led to theory of
    Romantic litr.
  • Gave short story its form (w/Hawthorne)
  • Invented the detective story
  • Stories of detection and horror
  • Explores the dark side of our inner experience
    imagination used to explore the irrational world
    of human mind

6
Literary Achievements
  • Imprt. Amr. Poet unreal atmosphere
  • musical effects
  • Favorite/most worthy subject death of
    beautiful woman
  • Main theme dissolution of personality
  • man works against his best interests

7
Literary Devices
  • Alliteration (nearly napping)
  • Internal Rhyme
  • Assonance (flung the shutter)
  • Consonance (truly your forgiveness)
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