Poe's parents were David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an actor and actress that worked in the city of Baltimore (Britannica). ... After John Allan and Poe had a huge fight over Poe's gambling addiction, Poe joined the army under the alias of "Edgar Allan Perry- (Britannica). ... Yet it was the poem, "Raven- that brought Poe the most recognition and finally provided him a spot among America's greatest writers. ... "All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to maintain equilibrium in his life- (The complete tales and poems 264). ... Poe also manages to describe his more unpo...

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Poe believed that a poem or a short story should be read in a single sitting, so that the problems of the world around the reader would not distract him from the unity of the poem or the story itself. ... A lot of Poe's descriptions were short and brief. ... Poe's brevity remains consistent through the entire story. ... The last aspect of Poe's "Unity of Effect- is that all details of a poem or short story must be closely related to the whole. ... At that time Poe fled the mansion. ...

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In Poe's "The Tell-tale Heart- this seems to be the case. ... "The Tell-tale Heart- is not the only Poe story that confronts this fear. ... Ultimately, Poe's madmen choose the method and means of their own deaths. ... This ending alone is a perfect example of Poe's constant emphasis of death's inevitability. The poem "The Love Song of J. ...

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Edgar Allen Poe was an American writer whose short stories and poems commonly reflected death. ... Poe first introduces the symbol of death as he describes the physical aspect of The House of Usher. ... Poe uses this to show that Roderick really cared for his sister. ... Poe shows, that their love for one another had ceased, thus, breaking apart this one being. ... Edgar Allen Poe states, "From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down." ...

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