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Edgar Allen Poe And The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe

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“Beauty is vain. It appears and like the wind, it's gone,” a quote from American writer Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem “The Raven.” One of the twenty short stories and over fifty poems he had written in his life, the Raven, like many other poems and stories he wrote, inspired and influence many different great works of literature such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Poe did not only inspire stories, but he was credited with inspiring the modern detective story, influencing the Gothic horror story, and being a significant inspiration for the science fiction genre. These accomplishments helped pave Poe’s legacy and turn his life into a legend.
Moby Dick is a novel by American novelist Herman Melville about sailor Ishmael and a whale, regarded as Melville's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels, which has many similarities to Edgar Allen Poe’s story “MS. Found in a Bottle.” For instance, both stories have a resemblance in tone and substance, as well as motives for the main …show more content…

Poe’s legacy is commemorated in the TV show considering how Poe is credited with inspiring the modern detective story. Poe created the new genre after writing “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” being the first writer to introduce a character such as Auguste Dupin that solved a mystery by analyzing the facts of a case.
Poe was also credited with influencing the Gothic horror story through his “literary techniques” such as “His use of psychological horror through first-person narration” (Edgar Allan Poe and His Tales of Horror - National Park Service). This use of different literary elements “inspired other writers such as Ambrose Bierce and H.P. Lovecraft to write horror stories”(“National Park Service”). Furthermore, this influence of the Gothic Horror story was one of the many things that helped turn Poe’s simple life into a

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