The Dark Side of Poe Edgar Allen Poe was known as a Dark Romantic because of his style of writing. ... This description comes from Poe's irrational side, which shows us Poe's instability as a writer and let alone a person. ... "The Raven" shows more of Poe's deranged psyche. ... Lenore was a past love of Poe who had passed away. ... This is the other side of the dark romantics that exhibits that some of the writings come from the minds of a mentally deranged man as Edgar Allen Poe. ...

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Edgar Allen Poe uses this description in "The Fall of the House of Usher" in different ways. ... Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. ... (Poe, 182). ... Edgar Allen Poe achieves his lasting effect on the reader at the end. ... Edgar Allen Poe's stories will live on through the hearts of readers for years to come. ...

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Poe had a life that was full of depression. ... In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay called "The Philosophy of Composition". ... Also, Poe believed that the most poetic topic was the death of beautiful women. ... Like mentioned, Poe mainly included horror into his stories. ... Edgar Allen Poe has given to american literature a name not to be forgotten....

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Another author who uses an interest in the past is Edgar Allen Poe. In the poem "To Helen",Poe states, " To the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome" ("To Helen" 183). ... Poe got his inspiration from the Black Death, a plague which killed millions of Europeans. ... Poe is an exquisite example of how psychology is used in his stories. ... In addition to this, in -Masque of the Red Death," Poe has everyone in the town so afraid of dying that the fear actually causes them to die. ...

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Another author who uses an interest in the past is Edgar Allen Poe. In the poem "To Helen",Poe states, " To the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome" ("To Helen" 183). In this example Poe is using the beauty of the past nations of Greece and Rome to add imagery that corresponds with the beauty he sees in Helen. ... Poe got his inspiration from the Black Death, a plague which killed millions of Europeans. ... Poe is an exquisite example of how psychology is used in his stories. ...

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During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. This transformation was known as know as Romanticism. William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major cont...

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These three elements are in two great stories, and one poem two of which are by Edgar Allen Poe and one from Nathaniel Hathorn, These three great stories of Romantic literature are "The Black Cat", "The Raven" and Dr. ...

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America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! -America the Beautiful, Katherine Lee Bates The growth of American Literature was further developed in the era of American Romanticism. In this period, stirrings of national consciousn...

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