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5W1H - Questions, Quotes & Music To Inspire

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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Life, Love and Happiness

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Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Full Documentary | Biography

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The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed, unreliable narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". Relating to the narrators insanity/schizophrenia, as he hears the heart beating under the floorboards although its actually not.

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“To Helen” (1831)
“The Raven” (1845)
“Annabel Lee” (1849)
“The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843)
“The Cask of Amontillado” (1846)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839)

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''The Sleeper'' is a love poem to a woman named Irene, who is dead. The speaker of the poem praises her beauty and seems to address her, a literary device known as apostrophe. Though she is dead, the love between her and the speaker lives on, and he hopes that her soul is doing well even in the afterlife.

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"A Dream Within a Dream" explores the significance and reality of life. The speaker watches as the things that are important to him are taken away and struggles to hold on to them. Realizing, that no matter how hard he tries to hold on, he lacks control, and questions if life is just "a dream within a dream".

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It is the story of a husband and wife who are torn asunder when evil angels plot against them. Annabel Lee is based on the original poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was written near the time of his death. It is the story of a husband and wife who are torn apart when angels plot against them.

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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (1845) is a poem centered around an unnamed narrator's journey into madness after realizing he will never forget his lost Lenore. Poe uses symbols such as a talking raven, a bust of Pallas, and the narrator's chamber to share the story while representing his narrator's struggle with grief.

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I Edgar Allen Poe is known for my amazing horror stories known as Tell Tale Heart and others like the Raven. I am a writer, and a poet. I was born on January 19, 1809 and died on October 7, 1849. But what makes me unique is my suspenseful, vivid settings.

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I am best known for my poetry and short stories, specifically the tales of mystery and the macabre. I'm widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and was one of the country's newest authors to write short story.

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

- from a letter to George Washington Eveleth, 1846

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"

- from 'A Dream Within a Dream', 1849

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion”

- from Ligeia, 1838

“Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night"

- from Eleonora, 1841

“We loved with a love that was more than love”

- from 'Annabel-Lee',1849

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched"

- from a letter to Maria Clemm, 1849

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world"

- from The Philosophy of Composition, 1846

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”

- from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 1838

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed”

-from Mesmeric Revelation, 1849

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see"

- from The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, 1845

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My work was inspired by my own tragic childhood, both of my parents died while I was very young, and my foster mother passed away when I was 20.

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Theories of what caused Poe's death include suicide, murder, cholera, hypoglycemia, rabies, syphilis, influenza, and more. Because of the evidence people believe that it was most likely alcohol.

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I was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth Poe. My father abandoned the family in 1810, and when mother died the following year, I was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted me, but I was with them well into young adulthood. My work was inspired by my own tragic childhood; both of my parents died while I was very young, and my foster mother passed away when I was 20.

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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which consists of different behaviors and hallucinations and usually comes from genetics, or child trauma.

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The Sound of the Heart and the actions of the insane character that is in the story creates sort of a scary and horrific suspense in the story.

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Poe creates suspense by phrasing his words and how sudden events and rising tension can create suspense throughout the story. This is shown by the sudden hand slip event and the heart being shown that its sound grows bigger gradually

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In my work I demonstrated an interesting  language and technique as well as I inspired original imagination. My poetry and short stories greatly influenced the French Symbolists of the late 19th century, who in turn altered the direction of modern literature.

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Poe gave a new way of adding suspense to his stories, he also changed the way poems were written. He created a new way of writing that changed our world forever.