Edgar Allan Poe Influences

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Poe perceived the essential impersonality of the real artist; and knew that the function of creative fiction is merely to express and interpret events and sensations as they are,regardless of how they tend or what they prove -- good or evil, attractive or repulsive, stimulating or depressing, with the author always acting as a vivid and detached chronicler rather than as a teacher, sympathizer, or vendor of opinion. Many authors speaks very highly of Poe. They tend to admire Poe's ability to write without influence. Edgar Allen Poe's writing style gave way to a new form of writing, one in which the reader is in control of their own emotions. Poe presents his works in a manner so as to appeal to a wide range of people. As should any writer who wishes to be popular, he does it differently though, he presents it in a way that carries no influences. He prefers that you take the time to formulate your own opinion, that you actually sit and think about what is happening in the short impactful story. In the story of The Tell-Tale Heart,an unnamed narrator opens the story by …show more content…

This is substantial due to the fact that, back then all writing was based on the essence of the reader being told how to feel and react to the story they were about to be told. Whereas in his story,”The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,”Poe writes “It is now rendered necessary that I give the facts—as far as I Comprehend them myself. They are, succinctly, these:” Even though Poe is saying that these are facts he is also saying that they are as he comprehends them. Meaning that even though they are facts you can see them as you