Essays Tagged: "Edgar Allan Poe"

Fisionomia di un eroe

zze descrittive e l'insistenza sulle cadenze musicali di Samuel Taylor Coleridge, che influirono su Edgar Allan Poe e quindi successivamente sui decadenti ; i libri profetici di William Blake, che ant ... u questa linea si sviluppano poetiche come il Simbolismo o l'Estetismo, che trovano i loro padri in Edgar Allan Poe e Charles Baudelaire. Da essi, e in particolare dal secondo, prendono spunto i poeti ...

(18 pages) 107 0 4.7 Jun/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was a bizarre and often scary writer. People throughout history have often wondered ... not the result of a diseased mind, as some think. Rather they came from a tense and miserable life. Edgar Allan Poe was not a happy man. He was a victim of fate from the moment he was born to his deat ...

(6 pages) 192 0 4.6 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

EDGAR ALLAN POE

EDGAR ALLAN POEEL AUTOR Y SU OBRAEn el Boston de 1809, una pareja de actores jovenes se encontraba d ... o de 1809, nacía para elmundo, uno de los escritores más grandes de todos los tiempos:Edgar Allan Poe.Era el segundohijo del matrimonio; su hermano mayor William Henry, nacido en 1807, e ... ediciembre de 1811, a la edad de 24 años muere de tuberculosis en Richmond.El pequeño Edgarquedaría huérfano de padre y madre a la edad de tres años.Pasado el tiempo ...

(3 pages) 75 0 3.9 Dec/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Effects of Setting on Character In "The Masque of Red Death" and the "Shawl"

ribed the setting set the traits of the characters' personalities. In 'The Masque of Red Death,' by Edgar Allan Poe, Prince Prospero was the main character. In 'The Shawl,' by Cynthia Ozick, Stella wa ...

(2 pages) 103 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Edgar Allan Poe Summary of poe life. the loss of women he love

Edgar Allan Poe"Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American poet, short story writer, journalist, and lite ... om, the raven over the door, the bottle on the table, the opium in the pipe, scribbling mad verses."Edgar Allan Poe was not fortunate with women. Women are the most beautiful creature's in the world. ... omen are the most beautiful creature's in the world. They should be honor, respected, and loved. In Edgar Allan Poe's case he loved women, but had a problem with keeping them for a long period of time ...

(2 pages) 155 2 2.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Relationships in Emily Dickinson...focusing on the relationships that she failed to have outside of her attic room and the relationships that she put into her poetry.

their bungling, fretted grasp. " (Obituary)Emily Dickinson was contemporary to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. With her honest indulgence into the souls of every man and also he ...

(10 pages) 294 1 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Poe As A Romantic

Showing the Edgar Allen Poe was a romanitc living in a Pre-Romantic literary period noneA wise man once said 'Ar ... their time, they are the time and it is just the others who are behind.' This defines the career of Edgar Allan Poe, one the greatest and yet one of the least recognized authors in American History. P ...

(4 pages) 155 0 3.7 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Essay on "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe.

Narrator's Self-DestructionThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is an American classic about a man that loses his sanity because of one cat. Poe wro ...

(3 pages) 135 1 4.1 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe. Includes his poem "The raven"

Edgar Allan Poe was born near London on the 19th of January 1809. His mother was an actor and his fa ... e published his second book 'Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems' but this time under the name of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other cadets to publish his ... ard. Yet he continued with his writing until he died the on 7th October 1849 by alcoholic poisoning.Edgar Allan Poe was mostly known for his analytic and criticising analyses. It was them which gave h ...

(8 pages) 134 1 2.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A Murder's Journey Through works of Dostoyevsky and Poe

ss which causes them to commit their crime. This belief is strongly disagreed with by the authors Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat" ...Dostoevsky, Fyodor Milchailovich. Crime and Punishment. Markham: Penguin Classics, 1983.Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Black Cat". Great Short Works of Edgar-Allan Poe. G. R. Thompson. New York. Perenn ...

(7 pages) 64 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher is acclaimed as one of Edgar Allan Poe's greatest works. Poeuses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to ... o place in a unified structureaccording to the prescription of an exacting and skillfulart, that is Edgar Allan Poe.(Neilson, 100)Works CitedBuranelli, Vincent Edgar Allan Poe Boston, Twayne Publishin ... 100)Works CitedBuranelli, Vincent Edgar Allan Poe Boston, Twayne Publishing, 1977Knapp, L. Bettina Edgar Allan Poe New York, Fredrick Ungar Publishing company, 1984Levin, Harry The Power of Blackness ...

(4 pages) 118 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Labovian Theory in Poe. Soeaks of "The tell- tale-heart"

ator and the reader/listener back together on common ground in order to bring the story to a close. Edgar Allan Poe's short story of a passionless crime undone by the heart incorporates the Labovian c ...

(5 pages) 72 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Explication of 'Bridge of Sighs' by Edgar Allan Poe includes an excerpt of the poem

Any poem respected by Edgar Allan Poe to the extent that he would include it in his personal explanation of poetry should ...

(5 pages) 72 0 4.4 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe, the writer of terrorsome short stories

Edgar Allan Poe, is the author of terrorsome short stories such as: 'The Fall ofthe House of Usher,' ...

(10 pages) 258 0 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's "Cask of Amontillado"

TASK: To write a summary theme of Poe's 'The Cask Of Amontillado'One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado is revenge. In this summary theme I intend to demonstrate ... he real Montressor's purpose in taking Fortunato to the catacombs.All these examples demontrate how Edgar Allan Poe uses dramatic irony in his short story to call the readers' attention to the double ...

(2 pages) 342 0 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

What Goes Around Comes Around. Speaks of "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe

In his story "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe dramatizes his experience with madness,and challenges the readers suspension of disb ...

(5 pages) 94 0 3.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

"The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice

Mystery, and Romance. I classifyGothic novels as stories pertaining to a dismal atmosphere, such as Edgar Allan Poe'sliterature. .Lovers who unlock thirteen generation's of Mayfair family secrets and ... m Rice, and I'm inthe process of choosing between 'Exit to Eden' (John Steinbeck) and something fromEdgar Allan Poe.

(6 pages) 49 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Shift in the Balance of Good and Evil Reveals the Dark Side of Man... covers Poe's Madness & Literary Genius

A Shift in the Balance of Good and Evil Reveals the Dark Side of Man.Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to be one of the greatest short story writers. Many of Poe's s ... the punishment definitely fits the crime. Each character gets what they deserve for what they did. Edgar Allan Poe is a master at delving into the human mind and soul. "The Black Cat", "The Cask of A ...

(7 pages) 143 2 4.1 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Short Overview of Edgar Allen Poe's life

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's famous writers. He is known as the f ...

(2 pages) 81 0 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and critic but mostfamous as the "master of ... merican writer, known as a poet and critic but mostfamous as the "master of the short-story form" ( Edgar Allan Poe), especiallytales of the "mysterious and macabre" ( Edgar Allan Poe). The literary m ... edpopular and many major American and European writers have "professed theirartistic debt to him" ( Edgar Allan Poe).Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe wasthe s ...

(4 pages) 96 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors