The stories entice the reader with the brilliant use of first-person narration, creating the theme of psychological terror. ... Edgar Allan Poe is an infamous writer best known for his poems and short fiction. ... He stumbled through the streets reciting his famous poem "The Raven". ... One who reads the stories experience the same emotions with the protagonists since they are told in first-person. Poe uses psychological terror as the main theme in both. ...

• Word Count: 2349
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Poe's life is almost exactly the same because all of these things began to happen to him and just as he reached the "climax" of his suffering, his life ended. ... Poe writes using elements that contribute to a central theme of a story which are repeated throughout (May 1647). Guilt is a major theme in "The Tell-Tale Heart." ... With Poe being incorporated into the story, it reflects how humanity thinks in everyday life. In the short story "The Tell-Tell Heart" and poem "The Raven", Poe has deeply influenced people of the past and continues to do so even today. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I have watched movies that were created from his textual creations, read his poems, and his stories. ... For example, in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," the story opens with a first-person narrator, Montresor, speaking about the death he has in mind for his friend Fortunato. ... The distinction between right and wrong in Poe's stories is a very powerful theme, ever present in his horrific accounts. Vincent Buranelli says, "even though Poe is often looked upon as a gifted psychopath who is describing with consummate artistry his personal instabilities and abnormalities, the fact r...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School