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A presentation for the American Literature course, taught by Mrs. Yony Cardenas in the UNMSM -Peru.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Teacher: Yony Cárdenas CornelioStudent: Gabriela Paredes Baquerizo
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOSFACULTAD DE EDUCACIÓN
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Timeline
January 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe was Born to David & Eliza in the city of Boston.
December 8, 1811
Eliza dies on a theatrical tour in Richmond.
1815
Edgar lives with the Allan’s in England & attends school in London & Stroke-Newington.
1821
Poe continues to go to school in Richmond
1825
Engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster
1826Attended the University of Virginia.
1827
Arguments with John Allan so leaves for Boston where he publishes poems such as Tamerlane and joined the army
October 7, 1849
Poe died in a hospital in Baltimore and was buried in the Westminster Presbyterian Church
January 30, 1847Virginia Clemm, Poe’s wife dies of T.B. and Poe became ill.
January 29, 1845
Becomes famous for “The Raven” which was published in New York
Febuary, 1841Poe became editor of Graham’s Magazine
February 28, 1829
Frances Allan dies of T.B.
March 27, 1834
John Allan dies
1835
Moves to Richmond with cousin Virginia Clemm and her mother
May 16, 1836
Poe marries his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Clemm in Richmond
June 1839
assistant editor for the Magazine Burton’s Gentleman
Poe’s work.
Poe’s professional life was full of failure His greatest success was “The Raven,” which
brought him fame, but earned him only $14.00 Poe wrote many short stories simply for the
money; ironically he is most famous for these stories
He saw himself as a poet, but could not make a living from writing poetry
He is credited with the invention of the detective story (these stories provided Poe with the order & logic that was lacking in his own life)
Characteristics of Poe’s work.Poe explored the dark and often irrational side of
the human mind .
His stories often are filled with a sense of anxiety & have a dreamlike quality
Poe saw women as angelic figures: “Women have been angels of mercy to me.”
Poe’s characters are often tortured by guilt
Poe’s stories are quite modern in their psychoanalytical components
Like many of his characters, Poe was caught between• Rationality & irrationality• Order & chaos
TO HELEN Helen, thty beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yoreThat gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, way-worn wanderer
boreTo his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me
homeTo the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Lo, in yon brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy Land!
-.Thy: your-Yore : long ago-Roam: to walk or travel around without a direction-Thee : you-Agate: a hard stone with bands or areas of colour, used in jewellery-Nicean: refers to boats from the city of Nicea in Asia Minor. Poe creates the phrase for its melodious sound- Wont: accustomed.-Hyacinth: wavy and perfumed-Naiad : in classical mythology, a water nymph-Psyche: goddess of the soul
“The Raven”
The narrator moves through a sequence of changing moods. When first awakened by the raven, he is gloomy. Terror quickly follows, then curiosity as he seeks a simple explanation for the tapping. The entrance of the bird makes him smile. But soon the uncanny aptness of the same, cruel answer causes bitter self-questioning, sad memory, near hysteria, and finally permanent hopelessness. The raven in the end never flits, still sitting there, with devil eyes, its shadow falling on the floor; and the man’s soul is in that shadow, forever.
The subject of the poem deals with the death of a beautiful woman, which could be Virginia or others whom the Poe speaker loves, and the sorrow of a lover whose beautiful lady has been taken from him by death.
“The Raven”
He is continually reminded of the pain he feels from her loss (the bird will leave him in the morning like Lenore; Lenore will never sit in the chair as he does in the poem).
As much as the narrator wants to forget his loss, he can’t help but remember.
“The Raven”
The poem contains internal rhyme:
“Once upon a midnight dreary while I wandered weak and weary”
Poe establishes immediately, an atmosphere/tone of darkness/melancholy/ suspense/fear/anxiety
“The Raven” “The Raven” reflects the
darkness, anger and frustration Poe felt while watching his wife Virginia die for five years
During that time, Poe struggled to keep Virginia fed and warm, and also to give her the medicine she desperately needed
The guilt & anger he felt are expressed in the darkness of “The Raven”
In the story we read about
how the main character lives with an old man in his house.
However, the old man has a red, vulture’s eye.
For some reason this bothers the main character so much that he wants to get rid of it! Then he starts spying on the old man every night in the dark, but one night the old man realizes he’s there.
The old man I killed and buried in his house.
Days later, the police went to the house and the main character confessed his crime.
The conflict of the story is that the old man’s eye bothers the main character so much that he wants to get rid of it.
In the end, he gets rid of the eye by killing the old man but the main character can still hear the old man’s heartbeat.
Murderer
Old man Police officers
The Duality of Man› Light vs. Dark, Good vs. Evil – every man has to find a way to balance these out in the hopes that the light/good will be the predominate side in his life.
In The Tell-Tale Heart some foreshadowing is used. He also uses a simile and repetition of important ideas
of the story.
The Tell-Tale Heart is a Horror short story. Edgar Allen Poe published mostly horror fiction stories.
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