Edgar Allan Poe: A Brilliantly Dark Mind
- 1. Edgar Allan Poe and Death:A Brilliantly Dark MindBecky ArchibaldEnglish 1102Professor Owens2 October 2010
- 2. “Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last” (Poe).
- 3. Poe struggled with death of the women he loved and abandonment by father figures
- 4. Poe struggled with poverty and substance abuse
- 5. Death is a theme prevalent in Poe’s writings.“Poe has grotesque inventiveness” (Reckley)
- 6. Graphic descriptions and morbid wording fortify psychological effects
- 7. Tales include death by disease, murder for a variety of reasons and in many styles, and premature burial THE Fall of The House of UsherStory of death by debilitating condition
- 8. Ghastly death-like surroundings
- 9. Includes premature burialCask of AmontilladoStory of revengeful murder
- 11. Vault - dark, damp, dreary surroundingsThe Premature BurialDeath by premature burial
- 12. Vivid description of the horrors of being buried alive
- 13. Fears of death will consume if not facedThe Black CatDeath by murder –cat and wife
- 14. Drunken delusions and torment
- 15. Concealment of body in the wallThe Pit and the PendulumNo death – mental and physical torture
- 16. Psychological process of dealing with presumed death
- 17. Dark, dreary, scary surroundingsPoems included theme of death – usually that of a beautiful woman
- 18. Extreme love followed by death – melancholy tone
- 19. Beautifully gloomyAnnabel LeeNothing worse than the death of a beautiful woman
- 20. Angels kill her because they are jealous of the love the couple shares
- 21. He wants to lay down and die to be with her againLenoreBeautiful woman died too young
- 22. Damned to hell by lover who only loved her money
- 23. Narrator wants to sneak her to heavenOther works include death themeThe Tell-Tale Heart
- 24. The Masque of the Red Death
- 25. The Raven
- 26. To HelenPoe makes death intriguing and horrifying
- 27. Short horror story or a poem, the reader is bound to face the topic of death.
- 28. Edgar Allan Poe was a man with a brilliantly dark mind. Works Cited Clare, Lara. "Edgar Allan Poe, Lenore, and Annabel Lee." Associated Content. Yahoo, 09 dec 2006. Web. 1 Oct 2010. Hartung, Kristina. "The Gothic Mood of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"." Ferris State University. Ferris State University, 15 apr 2008. Web. 1 Oct 2010. Hurley, Richard. "Fear of imminent death. (Papers)." British Medical Journal 327.7408 (2003): 200. Academic OneFile. Web. 1 Oct. 2010. Kakutani, Michiko. "Books of The Times; Haunted by Death and a Sense That the Past Lives On.(Word and Image Page)." New York Times 13 Dec. 1991. Academic OneFile. Web. 1 Oct. 2010.
- 29. Work Cited Cont.Poe, Edgar Allan. The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Modern Library ed. New York, NY: Random House Inc., 1992.223- 958.Print. Poe, Edgar Allan. "Quote by Poe, Edgar Allan on Death and Dying." Quotations Book 18 Aug. 2010. General OneFile. Web. 1 Oct. 2010. Reckley. "Famous Baltimorians." University of Baltimore. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Oct 2010. All Graphics from http://webling.at/atteap/gallery/