POE
Edgar Allen Poe was an American poet who's works are best known
for the Gothic and supernatural. Poe had a challenging life that was full of
family deaths left and right. His father left the family and a year later, his
mother died. Also, his uncle, William Galt died and left his wealth with
Poe. Along with his uncle came his wife, Virginia Clemm, who was also his
cousin. It's hard for anyone to go through family deaths, but these deaths are
what some believe to have inspired his Gothic writing.
Poe went through many sad events (mainly deaths) in his life and
his writing kind of shows the tragedy he has been through. Most of his poems
and stories usually have deaths involved in them such as the House of
Usher and Legeia. In both these pieces, the main
character either has gone through someone's death or has a friend
or acquaintance who has gone through it. Poe used his life sadness to
create the plot and basis of these books. His works have contributed to the
modern genre of supernatural and horror.
Great blog! Throughout everyone's research, I believe that we found that Edgar Allan Poe lived a very depressing life. We can obviously jump to the conclusion that because of his depressing life that his stories and poems reflected a very gothic, dark theme. Do you think that Poe would have been as vivid and as good of a writer if he did not experience what he did in his life? Do those events make him who he was? If not, do you think he would be able to imagine such a world in which people came back from the dead, were haunted, etc.?
ReplyDeleteI like your post too, just include what you REALLY think about Poe's works. I mean I myself like his Gothic style writing and his rhyme schemes but your blog doesn't really say if you do like them just as much.
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