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Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Through Emotion And Individualism

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The Romantic era was an “artistic, literary, and intellectual movement… toward the end of the 18th century… that was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism” ("Romanticism”). As a part of the Romantic author, Edgar Allan Poe focused on portraying meaning in his writing through emotion. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style has painted him as a central figure in the Romanticism movement through his use of emotions, bizarre phenomena, and creative settings. As a Romanticist, Poe wrote with an emphasis on the emotions of the characters. He believed that “man felt and sensed an event before he thought about it,” and this belief was exemplified through his writing (Mueller). For example, in Poe’s The Purloined Letter, M. Dupin
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