Edgar Allan Poe:

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Edgar Allan Poe The Master of the Macabre
artistic works that are characterized by a grim
or ghastly atmosphere. There is an emphasis on
the details and symbols of death

• 8th Grade Reading

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Legend of the Poe Toaster

• Every year on Poes birthday, a mysterious
  visitor places three black roses and a bottle of
  cognac on his (original) grave in Baltimore, MD.
• The identity and reasons for this remain unknown.

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Edgar Allan Poe

• Born January 19, 1809.
• Mother was an actress.
• Foster family by 1810(Mr. Mrs. John Allen)
• 1829-Foster Mother dies
• Married cousin Virginia Clemm in 1835.
• Virginia died in 1847.
• Died October 7, 1849 in Baltimore under
  mysterious circumstances.

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First Love

• In his teens, he fell in love with his next-door
  neighbor, Elmira.
• Her parents disapproved, so it was broken off.
• Some say that he never got over his heart-break.

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Death Theories

• Alcoholism
• Congestion of the brain
• Rabies
• Suicide
• Tuberculosis
• Cholera
• Heart disease
• Cooping

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Driven by His Fears

• Alcoholism
• Madness
• Premature Burial
• Death
• Mourning
• Decomposition
• Reanimation
• Pseudoscience

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Descent Into Madness

• Poe flirted with madness his whole life.
• He also littered his works with insanity, often
  using the unreliable narrator as a device.

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Famous Short Story Selections

• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Black Cat
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Purloined Letter

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Famous Poems

• The Raven
• Annabel Lee
• A Dream Within a Dream
• Eldorado

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The Tell-Tale Heart
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Annabel Lee
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The Raven
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Symbolism of the Raven

• Bird of ill omen
• Diet of carrion
• The dead
• Lost souls
• Remembrance
• Present at creation
• Trickster god
• 1st bird off the Ark

• Bran the Blessed
• Tower of London
• Taught Cain how to bury his brother
• 2 at Odins shoulders, named Thought and Memory
• NFL team