Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. ... In order to create the horror and tension in his stories and poems Poe uses dramatic and verbal irony. ... Just as irony is a huge role in Poe's works so is the usage of symbolism, this is also a very distinguishable characteristic of Edgar Allan Poe. A poem that contains great symbolism is "The Raven" this poem brings forth many symbols including the most obvious one, the raven. The r...

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Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. ... (Baym, Levine, and Krupat35) Most writers were men and to have a woman even writing poems of their own was brave, but Bradstreet took it further and chose to speak openly about her relationship. ... Edgar Allen Poe took us from common to sense to common horror. ... (The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe) As a short-story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. ... Edgar Allen Poe was a master of criticism. ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It also in a specific manner tries to make parallels between Poe's own character and his projections onto his tales and poems, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... (Poe 1975: 290). ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ...

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His poems and stories chill the blood, even today. ... Among these examples is "I arise from dreams of thee"," by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a romantic and surprisingly cheerful poem for a man like Poe to cite as a favorite. ... Following the success of "The Raven"," Poe wrote his "Philosophy of Composition,"" which describes the framework and reasoning behind his narrative and structural choices in his most famous poem. ... According to his own reasoning, the point of the poem is pleasure through beauty, even if that beauty is dark and tragic. ... Poe demonstrates a surprising lack of elitism in h...

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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"" (Poe 1). So begins Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven- a poem that exposes the despair of one man over losing his lover and the self-inflicted pain he brings on himself with the help of a bird. ... When the narrator asks the raven his name half heartedly the raven replies "Nevermore- (Poe 48). ... Clifford Edwards, in an essay review originally published in Masterplots II: Poetry, explains that probably the most unique thing about Poe's "The Raven- is how the narrator asks his questions in a way that he will obviously kno...

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In the case of the chosen pieces, short story "William Wilson"" by Edgar Allan Poe and the poem "The Tunnel"" by Mark Strand, both stories slowly draw the reader into an empathy with the main characters. The short story by Poe forces the reader to attempt to find veiled redeeming qualities within the main character, William Wilson. ... Poe shows a distinct picture for the reader in his description of the boyhood school of Williams Wilson. ... Poe chooses to include such a large degree of details that a reader must recommence the story in order to be able to calculate all that is given. ... Fur...

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Matthiessen was influential in determining the canon of American writers from this period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. ... Walt Whitman Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself," from "Leaves of Grass" is often considered the most stunningly original poem ever written by an American. ... " The poem is innovative both in terms of style and content, forever altering the course of American poetry. The poem clearly participates in the invention of a myth of a democratic America. ... Poe's work often explores questions of individual psychology, but can c...

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His attraction to Poe remained consistent throughout his lifetime. He identified completely with Poe integrating many of his thoughts and ideas into his own poetry. Like Poe, Baudelaire disliked the romantic reverence for spontaneity and inspiration. ... This is also made apparent in both Petit poemes en prose and Le spleen de Paris, a collection of prose poems in which he seeks a mysterious sort of beauty in the ugliness of the modern city. ... He has this notion reflected in many of his poems including Une martyre, in which he attempts to turn horror into beauty. ...

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William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major contributors to the Romantic Movement. Most of the romantic writings included emotions, imagination and "reveled in nature." (220) One poet and poem that applies not only nature, but life and death to emphasize its message, is William Cullen Bryant and his renowned poem "Thanotopsis". ... In his poem "Thanotopsis" Bryant writes about death, and how society should not fear it but rather embrace it. ...

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"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"" is forever burned into my memory as one of the greatest poems of all time and I"m sure is at least familiar to many, many others. This great poem and other greats were all the work of a man who suffered from bipolar disorder. ... Edgar Allen Poe's state of mind can easily be seen in most of his writings as dark, hopeless, and filled with death; such as one would feel when in the depression stage of being bipolar. ... Bipolar disorder may have affected so many people throughout the years but it's because of this psychological disorder that we know suc...

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Bierce describes this scene with clear focus on details "A sentinel at the each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support", that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest – a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. [1]" Bierce's use of specific details presented in the story and the diction used is important to the style of realism as compared to Edgar Allan Poe's poems of romanticism. In Edgar Allan Poe's "Ann...

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Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... One of the most recognized writers that inspired Angelou was Edgar Allen Poe. ... In some poems, Angelou uses the four line stanzas with rhyme and rhythm and in others he does not. Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that presents her writing style through the unique stylistic details that reflect on themes and action. ... From the review of Angelou's works including the poem I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it is clear that she followed the most sign...

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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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