Edgar Allan Poe s Tales Of Mystery And Horror - 2549 Words

The Raven Explained Mrs Rozman Troy Hedden ENG 4U June 8 2015 Born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe s tales of mystery and horror initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature, The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers as well as madmen, burials of the premature kind, and mysterious women who have return from death . His works have been in print since early 1827 and included such classics as â€Å"The Tell-Tale Heart,† â€Å"The Raven,† and â€Å"The Fall of the House of Usher.† This writer’s queue includes short†¦show more content†¦Romanticism in literature was a rejection of many of the values movements such as the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution held as paramount. For Poe and the writing of the raven was none out of the ordinary for himself as most wo rks that he had produced at the time had a dark theme usually revolving around the death of a loved one as well as never seeing them again. Throughout his life, Poe faced problems of failed honor and insanity—issues that paradoxically help to account for a literary authority that established precedents and patterns of literature in his home region—and even beyond the South itself. Whether fully conscious of his aims, Poe found ways to deal imaginatively with the inexpressible, the horrors that the mind can conjure, and the dark side of experience—without revealing any more of the inner torture than he wished to convey to his readership. â€Å" (http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/) what the meaning of this is that Poes life was quite hard and this reflected on how he wrote as well as how he felt of the time that he had lived in.in two of his other works The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart some of Poes more dark and dreary stories often posses sed a theme of death and sadness that evoked him in his