Edgar Allan Poe's Influence On The Raven

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” (Edgar Allan Poe) Every writer has their own style of writing. Edgar Allan Poe was best known for his fiction Gothic works. Death is one of his most recurring themes. It deals with physical signs, concerns of burial and mourning. Edgar Allan Poe’s life had a major influence on his writing. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. Elizabeth Arnold Poe his mother passed away from

“The Raven” was published in 1845. This poem is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. “The Raven” tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man’s slow fall into madness. Edgar Allan Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes. The poem was inspired by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens. Edgar Allan Poe also borrowed the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett’s poem “Lady Geraldine’s Courtship”.  Edgar Allan Poe did not just write poems he also wrote short stories. “The Tell-Tale Heart” was first published in 1843. “The Tell Tale Heart” is told by an unnamed narrator who tries to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The victim is an old man with a filmy “vulture eye”. The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it up and hiding it under the floor boards. The narrators guilt manifests itself in the form of a sound. The sound is the old mans heart still beating under the floorboards. “The Tell Tale Heart” is Edgar Allan Poes most famous short story. “The Cask Of Amontillado” was another famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in November 1846. “The Cask Of

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7. Some people say that Edgar Allan Poes death is mystery and wrote their own opinions on how they think he died. The first theory is they think he was beaten. Edgar Allan Poe unable to handle liquor, became madly drunk after a single glass of champagne, after which he left his friends to wander the streets. In his drunken state, he “was robbed and beaten by ruffians, and left in the street all night.”  Edgar Allan Poe was supposedly involved with cooping. Cooping is a method of voter fraud practiced by gangs in the 19th century where an unsuspecting victim would be kidnapped, disguised and forced to vote for a specific candidate multiple times under multiple disguised identities. At the polling site Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious and it was election day. Edgar Allan Poe might have had a brain tumor. When Edgar Allan Poe died, he was buried, rather than being unceremoniously, put in an unmarked grave in a Baltimore graveyard. Twenty-six years later, a statue was erected, honoring Edgar Allan Poe, near the graveyard’s entrance. More than two decades of buried decay had not been kind to Edgar Allan Poes coffin or corpse within it. The apparatus fell apart as workers tried to move it from one part of the graveyard to another. Very little remained of Edgar Allan Poes body, but one of the workers saw a strange feature in Edgar Allan Poes skull. A mass was