PPT-The Cask of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe ( 1846 )

Poe the Author Poe introduced horror and detective fiction This story was his last story published in 1846 Poes primary concern was unity of effect which means that every element of a story should help create a single emotional impact. 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. Early Life. Poe born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a talented actress from an English theatrical family. Because Poe. ’. s father, David Poe, Jr., a traveling actor of Irish descent, was neither talented nor responsible, the family suffered financially. After apparently separating from David Poe, Elizabeth died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1811. The young Edgar, though not legally adopted, was taken in by a wealthy Scottish tobacco exporter, John Allan, from whom Poe took his middle name.. 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 . American Gothic Literature. Gothic literature began from the Gothic architecture of the Middle Ages.. Gothic architecture features:. Tall towers. Flying buttresses . Pointed archways. Vaulted ceilings. Background for Poe’s Short Story. Edgar Allan Poe. Author, not the narrator, of the story “The Cask . . .”. Developed characters whose sanity is questionable.. Father of the genre “the short story”. Catacombs are underground burial vaults.. An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves. . An underground, often labyrinthine (very confusing tunnels…like a maze) passageway.. represents the tale of revenge and manipulation.” – Ebert. “ Poe has done it again…instilling the fear of the darkness within us.” – . Gregson. “Amontillado. shows that man will do anything to get back.” – Arbor. Background for Poe’s Short Story. Edgar Allan Poe. Author, not the narrator, of the story “The Cask . . .”. Developed characters whose sanity is questionable.. Father of the genre “the short story”. 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. . Poe . (. 1809-1849. ). By Joshua Y. Poetry Presentation. Background Music. Blu profondo. by . R. oberto Jonata. Introduction. Source: The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. I: Poems (Harvard University Press, 1969) . 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.”. 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. The Poe family was abandoned by. David Poe (Edgar’s father) when Edgar was very young.. Both David and Elizabeth Poe, Edgar’s parents were actors.. Soon after, when Edgar was only three, his mother died of tuberculosis (TB), called “Consumption” in those days.