PPT-Edgar Allan Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher”

  1       2       3         4        5 During the whole of a dull dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens had been passing alone on horseback through a singularly dreary tract of country and at length found myself as the shades of the evening drew on within view of the melancholy House of Usher I know not how it was but with the first glimpse of the building a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. ff  1809 Poe: Planning . for Writing The Raven. The Raven . and the Peak of Tragedy (excerpt). Edgar Allan Poe – a biography (excerpt). The Raven. Texts. Gain deep understanding of the text. Answering text-dependent questions . Biography, Methods, The Gothic and Psychological Perspectives. A Difficult . L. ife. Born 1809 to traveling actors. Father abandons mother shortly after he’s born. Mother dies of consumption (tuberculosis) when he’s 2. “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Elements of the . Gothic. Gothic literature takes its themes of terror, . darkness from . Gothic . architecture.. Gothic . architecture is a style of building that was popular in the Middle Ages, from about the twelfth to the fifteenth century. . Edgar Allan Poe. Poe as Gothic Writer. He sought to examine the emotional side of the human experience.. He describes in minute detail the characters and setting to show the psychology of horror and madness through the perceptions of the narrator.. Edgar Allen Poe (1839). Pre-reading activities. 1. When you think of the words ‘horror’ and ‘Gothic what sort of images come into your mind?.  . 2. Write down everything you know about the horror genre. . poe. All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. biography. He was Born 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts . He attended the University of Virginia in 1820 – 1827 and was expelled for not paying back his gambling . We will walk with our own feet. we will work with our own hands. we will speak our own minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Political and Social Milestones. The Louisiana Purchase - 1803. The Gold Rush - 1849. Edgar Allen Poe. One the greatest and unhappiest of American poets, a master of the horror tale, and the patron saint of the detective story. Edgar Allan Poe first gained critical acclaim in France and England. . 1843. Summary. The Tell-Tale Heart is a powerful psychological thriller that gives an account of a murder from the perspective of its perpetrator, a deranged madman. The narrator plots to kill an old man to forever rid himself of his “Evil Eye”. For seven nights the narrator stalks the old man, waiting to catch his enemy-the eye-open. . by: Altay, Shawn, Peter, and Justin. Pg. 211 “We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. Pg. 212 “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.”. Showerman. KC . Cataldi. Jonathan Hardesty. Byron Keck. Overview. Summary. Themes. Connection between books. Significance. Conclusion. Summary. Players:. Investigators of moral climate. Dismantlers. Political . Of Edgar Allan Poe was unknown until…. now.. By. : . GATE 7. Biography of . Edgar Allan Poe. Enter the enigmatic world of Edgar Allan Poe if you dare…. Edgar Allan. Poe. Family Tree. Timeline. ABC Biography. Poe . the Author. Poe introduced . horror. . and . detective fiction. . This story was his . last. . story; published in . 1846. Poe’s . primary concern was . “unity of effect,” . which means that every element of a story should help create a single emotional impact.