Edgar Allan Poe

O'er his heart a shadow fell. for he found no spot of ground that looked like El Dorado. It means the Knight was depressed because he couldn't find literaly A city of gold. "over the mountains of the moon down the valley of the shadow ride boldly ride the shade replied If you seek El Dorado" Which means every Existential paradise is not to be found in a literal place.

Edgar Allan Poe's first known love was Sarah Elmira Royster. They were secretly engaged to be married, but her father found out about it and refused to allow the marriage so Poe later married virginia clemm.

Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark and mysterious poems. He also wrote Romantic poems of love and honor to various women in his life. He wrote enigmatic poems with names of the person being written to hidden within the poem. He wrote many different types of poems with many different types of styles. Poe cannot be categorized as writing in any one particular style. He was good at many of them.

It is very likely that Edgar Allan Poe's foster parents both died of consumption, or tuberculosis. The obituary for both Frances (1829, age 43 - 45) and John (1834, age 54 or 55) Allan said they died after a lengthy and (in Frances' case) painful illness.

Yes, sorry to say it, but NYU did indeed knock down Edgar Allan Poe's last remaining Manhattan residence at 85 W. 3rd Street (it was 85 Amity Street when Poe lived there) in order to build their new Law School Building in 2001. In addition, they destroyed two 1847 townhouses that had been remodeled by architect Stanford White when he designed Judson Church on Washington Square South just below Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Despite what grew to be an emotional and inspired campaign on the part of local and even world-wide preservationists (thanks to a brilliant computer person at the University of Virginia who designed our online petition that NYU could never block and which zinged letters to them on a daily basis), and a lawsuit brought by the Historic Districts Council, NYU prevailed. After many months of ever-growing bad publicity, NYU agreed to completely redesign the new building and reconstruct the facades of all three historic houses as a part of the design, even to using the original bricks and restoring the stoops of the houses. But like so many of NYU's promises to the community, this did not happen as promised, and what emerged were three facades made not from the original bricks but from prefab sheets that look like brick laid with mortar, no stoops (they pleaded lack of wheelchair accessibility to get out of that promise). In the end, they sort of look like townhouses, but are in no way authentic. All during the fight, NYU persisted in saying that Poe only lived in the house for about 3 months and didn't write anything significant while there, which we knew to be false. Poe's life is too well documented in the "Poe Log" published in the 1980's and by extensive scholarship. At least NYU finally put up a plaque which admits his actual length of residency and the works he penned while where. Unfortunately, somebody forgot to check with the English Department - the plaque is puncutated incorrectly. That's NYU - no friend to preservation OR punctuation!

Marilyn Stults

Member of the Save Poe/Save Judson Coalition (2000-2001)

I think imagery makes you think of a scene in your mind. In 'Annabel Lee,' I think one of the images is "In her tomb by the sounding sea" or "In her tomb by the side of the sea" because it makes you think of a scene with a tomb beside a sea with the waves crashing into the shore.

Edgar at the age of three lost his mother who died of consumption, and his biological father (a professional actor) deserted him and then died about a year later.

Edgar was then raised by the Allan family, but never legally adopted. Still ,he was treated - at least at first - as a family member. However, John Allan and Edgar developed problems in their relationship. John Allan refused to help Edgar through college and an argument forced Edgar to leave and go out on his own.

The above is my understanding.

After he slides off the board, the pendulum stops swinging, and, the narrator says, "I beheld it drawn up, by some invisible force, through the ceiling." Apparently, he concludes, someone has been watching him. Did he escape the pendulum only to be subjected to another form of torture?

.......At that moment, he notices that the sulfurous light in the cell is coming through a fissure running around the base of the walls. He also notices that the images on the wall are now staring at him with fiery demonic eyes and that the smell of hot metal has invaded the cell. It is the iron walls; they are heating up.

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We both have a passion for writing and storytelling. Additionally, we both explore dark and macabre themes in our work. Our writing often delves into the human psyche and uncovers the complexities of the human experience.

The painting is disturbing because it captures the dying beauty of the young wife in a way that suggests the death-like quality of the portrait has overtaken her true essence. The fusion of life and art in the portrait blurs the line between reality and illusion, creating an unsettling and eerie effect.

Edgar Allan Poe did experience a great deal of personal tragedy, including the early deaths of many family members, which likely had an impact on his mental health. While it's not accurate to label him as "crazy," these experiences did contribute to his melancholic and macabre writing style. Poe also had a history of struggles with mental health issues, such as depression and substance abuse.

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his dark, gothic writing style and themes of death and madness, which some people may find unsettling. However, his work is highly regarded in the literary world for its psychological depth and innovative storytelling techniques.

For the Southern Literary Messenger, Edgar Allan Poe served as an editor and contributor, helping to raise the magazine's literary standards and readership. In Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine, Poe was an editor as well, overseeing the publication's content and contributing his own works, including the famous poem "The Raven."

Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing Gothic fiction and macabre tales that often explore themes of madness, death, and the supernatural. His work frequently delves into the darker aspects of the human psyche and is characterized by its eerie atmosphere and psychological depth.

Poe had a number of severe pyschological problems. Most notable ailment was his alcoholism.

He struggled in his relationships with women.

Also, those closest to Poe tended to die prematurely, including his mother, father, brother, foster mother, foster father, and wife.

Also, his choice of profession (writer/editor) did not leave him financially stable. Edgar Allan Poe struggles with a drinking problems durgs and gambling

Edgar Allan Poe wrote many great stories and poems. His horror stories are said to be the scariest ever because he was so mysterious and made you think about things differently. He is one of the greatest poets of all time.

Poe's second book was titled "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems," published in Baltimore by Hatch and Dunning in 1829.

The name Edgar A. Perry is significant because it is the real name of the famous writer O. Henry, known for his short stories with unexpected plot twists and witty narration. O. Henry's real name was revealed after his death, adding to the intrigue surrounding his persona.

Virginia Eliza Clemm was born on August 15, 1822 in Baltimore, Maryland to Maria Poe Clemm and her husband William Clemm Jr. She was Edgar Allan Poe's 1st cousin and wife. She and Edgar were married when she was 13 on May 16, 1836. She was singing in January 1842 when she began to bleed from her mouth, one of the early signs of consumption (tuberculosis). She died on January 30, 1847 in Fordham, New York at the age of 24, and she was buried on February 2, 1847.

Starting with the longest place of residence:

1) Virginia (Richmond and Charlottesville)

2) New York City

3) Philadelphia

4) Baltimore

5) Boston (birthplace)

6) Europe

No one knows with any degree of certainty what Edgar Allan Poe died from. No autopsy was performed at the time and no death certificate with a cause of death was ever issued. A brief obituary stated that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain" but that was not a medical finding.

All of the various theories from alcohol poisoning to brain disorder to rabies to the "cooping" theory are all just that: theories. All of the theories of Poe's death have their promoters and their detractors and no one can say it was one cause or the other based on the evidence we have at hand today.

Edgar Allan Poe's foster parents, John and Frances Allan, had no children of their own when they took Poe into their family, and they had no other children while Poe lived with them. After Poe left them, Frances Allan died, and John Allan remarried. Allan had three children with his second wife before he died. It is also believed that Allan produced at least one illegitimate child.

I dont think so but it was used by Stephen King in his novel " The Shining "