EXPLANATION TO POE'S WRITINGS AND HIS TECHNIQUES
Many literary works of a great deal of contemporary writers express their familial backgrounds and experiences throughout their literature. For example, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, illustrates her struggle and strife as a young girl growing up in an abusive household. As for Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank was written to expose what her life was like during the Holocaust and how she was in hiding for close to two years. Edgar Allan Poe lived a hard life, which is reflected in his. Its dark and gloomy settings along with often depressing topics mirror his difficult times. That is generally the proposed reason why many of his short stories & poems seem to assert a great degree of blood and death. Especially since many of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" in particular, are marked by deep sadness over the loss of a loved one. "Poe gave these fantastic tales a dark, compelling sincerity" (Levert 59). Many of his poems are also about sadness over a lost happiness. They tell of how time has not been kind and the past was much better than the present. "It is a sadness that began in Poe's childhood with his father's desertion and the death of his m
Harrison, James A., The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Vol.7 New York: AMS Press Inc. 1965. But when the night had thrown her pall gs. "The Lake", a young man unable to accept the death of the girl he loved.... Yet even as a child, Poe was delighted by the "terror""(Carlson 12). The themes of everlasting love, gruesome death, and unjustifiable grief that run through most of Poe's stories and poems were expression of the writer's own bitter experiences and deeply rooted fears. Poe wrote three main types of stories other-a dark sadness that continued throughout his life" (Gale 3). All in all, "Edgar Allan Poe is unique"(Levert 74). Carlson, Eric W., ed. Poetry for Young Adults: Edgar Allan Poe; New York: Dell. (Sterling Publishing Company. Inc., 1995) 4-47.
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