The Portable Edgar Allen Poe, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, is a phenomenal compilation of works from one of America's greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Published in 2006, the book contains short stories, poems, and letters, written by Edgar Allen Poe. Full of lies, hope, revenge, and guilt, the stories in this assemblage are suspenseful and convey powerful messages. Of all the amazing stories that comprise this anthology, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Pit and the Pendulum” are the best three in the compendium. Written by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a thrilling story about a man who commits an atrocious deed. With an illness infecting his mind, the narrator plots and carries out the murder of his elderly neighbor and hides the body in the floorboards of the old man's bedroom. Later, when the police show up, the narrator persuades the cops that he is merely taking care of the house while the old man is away. Driven to insanity, convinced he can hear the old man's heart beating through the floorboards, and paranoid that the police can hear it as well, the narrator, ironically, gives himself up. Spine-tingling, gruesome, and with a surprise twist ending, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a narrative that keeps the readers' eyes affixed to the page. Another extraordinary tale by Edgar Allen Poe is, “The Black Cat”. “The Black Cat” recounts the story of an unnamed narrator with a selfless character. Loving animals, he and his wife have several pets, one of which being a black cat. The narrator and the cat grow very close and life for the narrator seems complete, until he beings drinking. Intoxicated by alcohol, the narrator becomes irritable and abusive. One day, that narrator, infur... ... middle of paper ... ... Assignation” don't offer the same vividly described setting, or narrators that evoke the aforementioned feelings of pity from the readers as the other selections in the book provide. Poe's best works are suspenseful and provide twists to the plot that engage a wide variety of readers. The use of motifs to help create an intense sense of doom and foreboding are prominent in many stories and poems by Poe. The Portable Edgar Allen Poe contains not only the best of Poe's work, but also an introduction with a thorough biography and chronology of major events in the life of Edgar Allen Poe. Filled with suspense, adventure, and thrilling tales, The Portable Edgar Allen Poe is the right pick for all readers, young-adult and older. This collection of stories, poems, and letters, all written by Edgar Allen Poe, is definitely worth a trip to the library to check-out.
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In the mid 1800’s America was in full swing of the romanticism movement. During this time readers were entertained by the fresh new writing styles of the latest authors. There were several famous authors in this era such as: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant. One innovative author from this movement however, added a new dynamic writing style that still intrigues many readers today. Edgar Allen Poe, through his invention of detective stories, has become a house hold name to many. In his short stories “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat,” Poe describes two heinous crimes committed by men whose motives can only be traced back to their deranged perception of reality, domestic relationships, and a soul whose thirst can only be quenched through violence.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most celebrated classical authors, known for his unique dealings within the horror genre. Poe was a master at utilizing literary devices such as point of view and setting to enhance the mood and plot of his stories leading to his widespread appeal that remains intact to this day. His mastery of aforementioned devices is evident in two of his shorter works “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Edgar Allan Poe, the famous American author of many poems and short stories, has the verbal/linguistic intelligence. According to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, a person can one or two of the eight multiple intelligences that they can use to understand the world around them. Poe, is a good example of the verbal/ linguistic intelligences as they tend to be people who enjoy words and are good at using them. This is seen in Poe as he was an editor of several different magazines and newspapers, he won several awards over the course of his life for his writings, and he is still famous for his writings today even though he died many years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe was an excellent horror, suspense, and mystery writer of the eighteenth century. His use of literary devices and different literary techniques makes this writer important to American literature. This paper will show how Edgar Allan Poe has made an impact on Society and American literature as well as how Edgar Allan Poe developed the short story. I will also discuss and analyze some of his works and techniques he uses in his short stories and poems.
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The two short stories that I have chosen by Edgar Allan Poe are The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have many things in common as far as technique goes, but they do have some significant differences between the two. In this paper I will try to compare and contrast these two short stories and hopefully bring something to the readers attention that wasn't there at first.
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Edgar Allan Poe has a unique writing style that uses several different elements of literary structure. He uses intrigue vocabulary, repetition, and imagery to better capture the reader’s attention and place them in the story. Edgar Allan Poe’s style is dark, and his is mysterious style of writing appeals to emotion and drama. What might be Poe’s greatest fictitious stories are gothic tend to have the same recurring theme of either death, lost love, or both. His choice of word draws the reader in to engage them to understand the author’s message more clearly. Authors who have a vague short lexicon tend to not engage the reader as much.
Edgar Allan Poe is one American author whose name is known to almost everyone. Edgar is known for his elegant poems and for being a tough critic of refined tastes, but also for being the first master of the short story form, especially tales of mystery. He has a talent of having an extraordinary hold upon the readers imagination and not letting lose. Many advents of Edgar’s life has probably led to the strange, but successful and renowned pieces of American literature.