Perhaps the most interesting quality of the poem is its simplicity and, in the same way, its complexity. ... Dostoyevsky needed governmental oppression, Poe needed his alcoholism and depression; so it would make sense that Carroll needed drugs to be his conflict. Isn't it interesting that Carroll's poem serves as a warning against the very thing that helped create it. ...

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Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MOBY DICK. ... Holmes is known for the poem OLD IRONSIDES. ...

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Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

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