Edgar Allan Poe Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, a well-known figure when it comes to his writings and poetry. Poe did not live an easy life, he dealt with more than what a child should ever have to deal with. His father abandoned him in 1810, and then a year after that his mother died of consumption while still at a young age. He was taken in by John Allan, a successful Scottish Merchant in Richmond Virginia. All though Poe was not formally adopted, they gave him the name of Edgar Allan Poe. In Poe’s later life he went into the military making $5 dollars a month. While in the military, he published his first book entitled Tamerlane and other Poems. There were a lot of other things to happen in his lifetime, which, lead to him making exceptional stories and poems with many

One similar topic is his use of fear. For example, in his story “Cask of Amontillado” he uses fear when Montresor is burying Fortunato. Fortunato is petrified of what is happening to him. In the text it says, “For the love of God, Montresor!” Another example is in “The Fall of the House of Usher” there is fear in Roderick when he sees his sister come back to life and then dies from the fear she has put upon him. The text says, “… I fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated.” Also in his story “The Masque of the Red Death” there is fear in Prince Prospero when he sees a figure he does not know. In the story it says, “Who dares? He demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him—“Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?” Lastly he shows fear in his piece of work “The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar” there is fear in Valdemar when the narrator talks of mesmerizing him. In the story it says, “His temperate was markedly nervous, and rendered him a good subject for mesmeric experiment.” His topics are indeed similar in his