Edger Allen Poe, at the start of his writing career, went to New York City where he had some of his poetry published. ... " Then in 1843, he wrote, "The Tell-Tale Heart.... " These two stories are short stories. ... To put it another way, the classical canon typically represents two opposing forces of nature, whether good or evil, knowledge or ignorance, love or hate or happiness or despair. ... To illustrate, in "The Tell Tale Heart," on the eighth night, he marks it as the time to carry out his murder. ...

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Poe's parents were David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an actor and actress that worked in the city of Baltimore (Britannica). ... In 1811 when Poe was two his mother died. That left him with his second depressing loss in only his first two years of life (540). ... In 1843 Poe published one his greatest works, "The Tell-Tale Heart- (Encarta). ... "All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to maintain equilibrium in his life- (The complete tales and poems 264). ...

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There were two men that both had incredible talents in two completely different fields. ... He left many of his works to the city of Oslo, which built a museum in his honor. ... Nevertheless, the timelessness of and attractions to Poe's work is evident in the fact that many people can still recite portions of Poe's famous poem "The Raven" and vividly remember such tales as "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado." ... In 1864, their family moved to the city of Oslo. ... At the time of Poe's birth, few cities could afford to ...

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However, he obviously was not good at it, for he compiled two thousand dollars worth of debts. ... Edgar did very well in the military, and arose to the stature of sergeant in two years time. ... In 1833 and 1834, Poe wrote two short stories, in which he would later rewrite. ... He published popular terror tales such as "The Fall of the House of Usher." ... In 1845, Edgar moved back to New York City and lived in a cottage in Fordham. ...

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Short story analysis of: The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known Tales of horror, "The Cask Of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. ... In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. ... The story begins around dusk, one evening during the carnival season in an Italian city. ... "The Cask of Amontillado" is a powerful tale of revenge. Montresor, the sinister narrator of this tale, pledges revenge upon Fortunato for an insult. ...

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His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, had been widowed at eighteen, and two years after his birth she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. ... In the first of the poem's three stanzas, Poe compares Helen's beauty to the ships of Nicea, a city near the Sea of Marmara. ... He stated his age as twenty-two, although he was just eighteen. In his two years in the Army, he rose to be regimental sergeant major. ... For the next two years he turned to free-lance writing. ...

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These experiences are mirrored throughout Edgar Allan Poe's life's work in his repetition of tragedy and morbid tales expressed throughout his literature. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe, two traveling actors, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Poe was disappointed with his very low pay and moved to New York City to seek work during the financial crisis of 1837. ... He had moved to the countryside, where he only lived two more years. ... The room apparently quickly takes its toll on Lady Rowena as she quickly becomes sick within the first two months there. ...

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The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

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