Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

As I can see his way of thinking, I suppose that he identified passion and emotions as enemies of his own mind, because both of the mentioned human characteristics cause vulnerability that he intended to hide by the image of perfectly designed works. Eventually he found his own voice and ended up creating literature by the use of elements that he thought to be the most poetic and sentimental, such as death and beauty. Poe examined the essential components that define the human personality, like moods, obsessions and wishes. As Block writes, his genuine way of writing about the significant human experiences paved the way for his success by impressing his audiences. (Block, 394.) In order to achieve the desired effect he built his poems around

The different types of works required different ambitions as well. Sometimes he wrote because of his idiosyncrasy, in other cases because of intellectual ambitions. However most of his works were written with his greatest effort to produce the best kind of poetry. (Block, 396.) Most of his poems are the production of his ambition to write absolutely perfect literature. But is no it rather the intention of the secret reveal of his deepest feelings that helped him write his works than the aim for perfection? As a result of his desire for perfection, Poe created a conscious poetry that he aimed to prove in his well-known work, “The Philosophy of Composition”. According to him the most important thing when one writes poems, is the aimed effect that one would like to impose on the readers. His methodology defines the way how poetry should be written, such as length, rhymes, meter and symbols. Apart from the structure, beauty can be seen as the other most important concept for

(Stovall, 419.) A great example for this idea is his poem, “To Helen” that deals with the dangerous features of passion. As Stovall explains, in “To Helen” a man was lost in the sea of passion and the beauty of his bellowed woman was the power that brought him back. As we can see, the notion of beauty gave his reason back, which in my opinion means that beauty should be the province not only a poem, but our lives as well. Another poem, named “Israfel”, also aims to prove that in this imperfect world, the only means of approaching truth is by beautiful forms. (Stovall, 419.) In most of his works, beauty is connected do death, especially to dead women. As I have mentioned above, the constant theme of death women can be connected to the loss of all the important women in his life. All of Poe’s poems are the expression of sorrow and sadness combined with madness, which helped him create an exquisite