In the same year, he got married to his first cousin, Virginia. ... In The Raven, he delved into the theme of death and loss. ... As he wrote the poem in another room in the house, his wife was dying. ... The themes of Poe's stories may very well be rooted in the unhappy events in his life. ... He began to move from one place to the next, meeting several women all at once, and sent them the same letter with the same phrases. ...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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

There are a lot of things you could compare with the lives of Edvard Munch and Edgar Allen Poe. ... His work often included the symbolic portrayal of such themes as misery, sickness, and death. ... After the death of his wife, Poe began to lose his struggle with drinking and drugs. He addressed the famous poem 'Annabel Lee' (Haugen 70) (1849) to her - its subject, Poe's favorite, is the death of a beautiful woman. ... Edvard Munch's life didn't seem as bad as Edgar Allan Poe's; basically they both went through the same phases in life when they each lost a love one...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• 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

Poe published his first volume of poetry, Tamerlane and Other Poems, in Boston after all ties were broken with his stepfather John Allan. ... The same year his wife died, his Broadway Journal failed to sell, and Poe became very ill. ... Madeline with her dying breath began to beat Roderick to the ground, at the same time the narrator terrified beyond his wildest dreams, fled the house. ... Since Roderick Usher and his house can be interchanged as the "Usher" in the title of the story, so can the theme. ... At the same rate Roderick is losing his sanity with his acute senses and the burying of ...

• Word Count: 1972
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The expanse of information offered to us is what feeds Americans' fear of that same demise. ... In Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart- this seems to be the case. ... With each step they take, Poe's characters rapidly remove themselves from rationality and the real world, only to lose themselves in an inescapable preoccupation with death. ... The poem "The Love Song of J. ... Indeed, the importance of the poem seems to lie in forcing the same questions the narrator suffers upon the reader, as well. ...

• Word Count: 1596
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Humbert uses rhetoric to compare himself to the famous, beloved, poet Edgar Allen Poe. Humbert calls himself Poe, and the name of his first, deceased, lover Annabel Leigh is taken, almost plagiarizingly, from the poem Annabel Lee by Poe. ... "Lolita contains numerous parodic allusions to other literary works, especially to Merimee's Carmen and Poe's 'Annabelle Lee'" (40). ... In this situation Humbert is omitting Quilty's foul language to make his character seem nobler and less of the disgusting rapist he really is, at the same time painting his opponent as...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lewis, Edgar Allen Poe, and Harper Lee are noteworthy to mention but so are F. ... Not only were they rivals, they were also friends and had the same circle of companions. ... Fitzgerald's work all had similar plots and themes. ... Soon after being in Paris, he continued to publish short stories, poems, and novels (Guion). ... When it comes to writing themes both men often wrote with similar ideas throughout all of their work. ...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School