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 ID: 566240
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Edgar Allan poe
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dreamSlide2Slide3
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
debts.He then attended West Point, but was expelled due to his missing too many classes.In 1833 he won a prize for his short story “MS in a bottle”Slide4
biography
Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, his
parents’
second child.
His father deserted the family a year later.
In December 1811, his mother died at twenty-four, and her husband disappeared completely.Poe was taken in by John Allan, a successful and stable Richmond merchant.
Poe later married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia. She later died at very young age of tuberculosis.Slide5
His death
On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, "in great distress, and... in need of immediate
assistance.
” He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5:00 in the morning
.[ Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own. Some sources say Poe's final words were "Lord help my poor soul.” All medical records, including his death certificate, have been lost
.] Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as "congestion of the brain" or "cerebral inflammation", common euphemisms for deaths from disreputable causes such as alcoholism.]
The actual cause of death remains a mysterySlide6
The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum
The Sphinx
The Raven
A Tell Tale Heart
Some of Edgar
Allan Poe’s Works….Slide7
Cask of amontillado
I said to him -- "My dear
Fortunato
, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day! But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts." Slide8
Poe worked in a variety of genres (1827-1849)
Criticism--he gained a national reputation as a virulently sarcastic critic, a
literary hatchet-man.
The bulk of his writing consists of his criticism, and his most abiding ambition was to become a powerful critic.
Poetry--He was an experimental poet.
Psychological fiction--He wanted to produce the greatest possible horrific effects on the reader.
Detective Story--Poe created this form when he was 32, will all its major conventions complete.Slide9
Elements of gothic in poe’s
fiction
Grim setting
Landscapes are often reflections of character’s mind.
Unusual buildings, extremes of nature, eccentric works of art
Very few of his stories take place in America; most take place in Europe or Never-never-land.Slide10
Other aspects of the gothic
Hidden evil
Unspeakable, mysterious crimes, including incest and
parricide
Obsession with Death
Ghosts, blood, body parts
Maniacal Laughter
The discovered manuscriptgives responsibility to someone else
Deformity
the
grotesque-
-people who don’t look right are capable of activity beyond the normSlide11