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Edgar Allen Poe

             Edgar Allan Poe's alcohol abuse and life lead to some of his famous poems. This is proven by two short stories "Tell Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat.".
             Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American writer born in Massachusetts in 1809. He was an orphan raised by his older brother John Allan. In 1827 Poe started working because he owed money from gambling and drinking. Edgar Allan Poe didn't like working so he quit his job as a clerk. He went back to Boston and wrote his first book Tamerlane and Other Poems. .
             Poe enlisted in the army in 1827 and served a two year term. He wrote his second volume of verse Al Aaraaf. He then dropped out of the army and his father disowned him permantly. Edgar Allan Poe's third book Poems was written in 1831. .
             That same year he moved to Baltimore, and lived with his aunt and her eleven year old daughter. The following year his four book A MS. Found in a Bottle. won a contest. Eighteen years later Poe died in 1849 due to alcohol abuse.
             In The Tell Tale Heart the narrator kills an old man because the narrator thinks the old man has an "evil eye". After the narrator kills the old man he hides the body under wooden floor planks. Later he confesses to the police because of his guilt. This is related to his life because he lived with his dead mother for three days. This situation is similar to the story the way he tries to live with the death of the old man.
             The Black Cat is similar to The Tell Tale Heart. A lover of domestic animals had many pets and lived comfortably in a house with a wife and pets. One day because of too much alcohol he cuts out his cat Pluto's eye and hangs it. The narrator burns the cat to get rid of it then finds a new cat just like Pluto. When the cat touches him he tries to kill it with an ax. His wife tries to stop him but she winds up getting killed with the ax. He puts his wife in a basement. He confesses to the police what he did. The disappeared cat is found behind a wall in the basement.


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1. Edgar Allen Poe

Poe: The Darkness Edgar Allen Poe is the most well-known author of his time. Edgar Poe's ancestors were agriculturists and artisans on one side, and actors on the other. Poe was born on Jan. 19, 1809, in Boston ( Encyclopedia Americana Pg. 274). Edgar's future mother was performing in Virginia, where she was being observed by a young man by the name of David Poe. Soon Eliza Arnold, a young ... from West-Point, he left for Baltimore, trying to make a new start for himself. Unfortunately, despite all efforts to improve his fortunes, Poe's descent into the lower class was to prove permanent. Edg...

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2. The Influence Of Edgar Allen Poe's Life On His Writings

... his pregnant mother who was an actress. Their family struggled very much. Later Poe said that he felt deserted by his natural father (Poe, Edgar 2-3). Poe despised his stepfather John Allen. They argued frequently and John rarely showed his affection toward Edgar. " [He] even described his son as "miserable, sulky, and ill-tempered"" (Poe, Edgar 3). The Allen's moved to Virginia, then London, and eventually, after John's company went under ... have the obsessive-compulsive attribute, which makes it more common, and therefore less noticeable. (Selected Works 6) Weigel 4 "The most promine...

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3. Edgar Allen Poe

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4. The Writing Brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe

... Lawrence's reference to scientific writing. This facile viewpoint on life brings out his sensitiveness to sounds and effect. Lawrence also believes that Edgar Allen Poe was a very deep man. He wrote with his soul. Poe gives you a look at what is underneath consciousness. His writing is all fair-spoken on the surface. Beneath it is more ... sees her as a chemical salt, which he needs to analyze out in the test tube of his own brain. Overall Lawrence finds Edgar Allen Poe's works to be mechanical and scientific. Poe has a different style of writing from any other. It is an inanimate type of...

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6. Edgar allan poe

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7. Edgar Allan Poe and The Black Cat

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8. Edgar Allen Poe

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9. Edgar Allen Poe

... be a gothic Shakespeare he would take form as Edgar Allen Poe. He writes with some emotion and creativity that few can deny the greatness of his works. He brought about the beginning of the horror story. Nowadays I doubt you could go to the theatre and not find a scary movie to watch. The only difference is that Poe's writing has an eerie feeling to it ... Hen Le Rennet and wrote some of his first poems. Without a job Poe decided to join the army when he was 18, under the name Edgar A. Perry. While stationed at Fort Independence Poe published Tamerlane and Other Poems, it was his first ...

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10. In Edgar Allan Poe

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