Poe vs Melville

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I chose to write about the similarities and differences between Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. Both authors/ poets lived a life you could write a book on. They began with similarities from birth till death. Weird and strange events took place throughout their stay on Earth.

Both authors time of birth was within a decade apart, and both were born on the East Coast, Melville born in Boston and Poe born in New York. They each were born into poverty and had troubles to worry about. Poe's parents died when he was at a young age, and Melville's parents were failures in business, which led to the death of his father at the age when Melville was twelve.

Poes education came from West Point Academy, but not by choice. His foster father paid for Poe to attend,

At this time in their lives is when everything became twisted in my opinion. To start off when Poe moves to Baltimore with his aunt, he then marries his cousin Virginia. How in the world could you tell people, "Yeah, this is my fourteen year old cousin/ wife."? Does not sound to good if you ask me! On the other hand you could be on an island where people believed in canabalism. That is where Melville ended up while at his stay at Nuku Hiva. I am not sure if Melville took part in eating humans, but either way you would not catch me around these two weirdoes.

I picked these two authors/ poets to write about because their masterpieces of writings are still cherished to this very day. They each lived in the same time frame, and their best works were with in five years of each other. Their styles of writing are different, but stil

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Approximate Word count = 561
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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