1 - Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe by Sarah Santo

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2025-09-04 13:32:16 UTC

Absent. Spoke to Ms.Santo.

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2025-09-04 13:32:17 UTC

His wife and mother dying, and his depression

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2025-09-04 13:32:35 UTC

The elements that distinguish Poe's gothic stories. Is his unity of effect making sure all words contribute to the short story and making it very packed with sad and goth words. Poe tries to make sure his stories are able to be read while in one sitting and also make them very gothic and effective and they have a tendency to always go towards self-destruction.

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2025-09-04 13:32:41 UTC

Poe lived in poverty throughout his career and struggled with alcoholism.

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2025-09-04 13:32:55 UTC

Factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life is the loss of his wife and mother both dying at the age of 24, causing him to drink more and more to ease his grief.

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2025-09-04 13:33:25 UTC

His poverty and the tragic death of both his wife and mom.

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2025-09-04 13:33:25 UTC

Some factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life included his wife and mother died, he was very poor, and he was an alcoholic.

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2025-09-04 13:33:35 UTC

His mom and wife both died young, and people around him got sick alot.

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2025-09-04 13:33:41 UTC

some factors that contributed to poes dificult life were: poverty, and his wife and his mom dying.

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2025-09-04 13:33:58 UTC

Poverty and grief of his mom and wife dying young affected Poe's life in a negative way.

2025-09-04 13:34:04 UTC

Some of the factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life were being poor, depressed and alcoholic.

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2025-09-04 13:34:21 UTC

His gothic horror is distinguished because his stories always have a hidden deeper meaning.

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2025-09-04 13:34:29 UTC

Haunting and hypnotic poetry.

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2025-09-04 13:34:31 UTC

Something that I think led to Poes difficult life was losing both his mom and wife at the age of 24!

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2025-09-04 13:34:33 UTC

Poe has an interesting take on gothic horror. He often used unreliable narrators to force the reader to decide what to believe. The characters often get less reliable as the story goes on and their decent into madness continues.

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2025-09-04 13:34:34 UTC

His careful attention to his form and style.

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2025-09-04 13:34:57 UTC

In some of his story's Poe has connects to the topic, he lives a depressed life

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2025-09-04 13:35:03 UTC

He pays more attention to details, form, and style while horror doesn't pay attention to those as much.

2025-09-04 13:35:12 UTC

His mom and sister dying both at age 24, living in poverty, and being depressed.

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2025-09-04 13:35:15 UTC

Some of the factors that made Poe's life hard was that, even though he was a published author he lived in poverty most of his life. It was also hard on him because both his mother and his wife died at only 24 years old.

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2025-09-04 13:35:33 UTC

some elements that distinguish poes gothic stories where that they were haunting, hypnotic and from his unity of effect.

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2025-09-04 13:35:34 UTC

Elements that distinguish Poe's gothic horror stories are the grief and mourning that show in almost all of his work of literature, as well as the insanity that shows with the characters turning out to be insane.

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2025-09-04 13:35:51 UTC

His darkness he includes in his stories and the realness he talks about.

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2025-09-04 13:35:55 UTC

Factors that contributed to his hard life were that he grew up in poverty and his mom and wife died at 24

What are some factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life? #14

2025-09-04 13:35:58 UTC

The factors that contributed to his difficult life were the untimely deaths of his mother, wife and an active alcohol addiction.

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2025-09-04 13:36:10 UTC

Poe's credited with the characteristics of the detective, with powers and knowing more than others and somewhat super knowledge. Finding stuff in a day that has been a case for years, making the detective seem like a super-human and that traces to his stories of fiction of the main character, C Auguste Dupin.

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2025-09-04 13:36:15 UTC

The factors that contributed to Poes difficult life was his parents both had tuberculosis and died at age 24. He was also in poverty for most of his life and was addicted to alcohol.

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2025-09-04 13:36:24 UTC

Elements that distinguish Poe's gothic horror stories would be horror, grief, and fear.

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2025-09-04 13:36:25 UTC

Some characteristics of detective fiction include the Murder in the Roe Morgue where the detective Auguste Dupin was the main character.

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2025-09-04 13:38:02 UTC

Theres a lot of hallucinations, empty, being crazy and lying

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2025-09-04 13:38:26 UTC

Poe had a hard life for a lot of reasons. One of them was that he lived in poverty. Another one is that his mom and his wife both passed away when they were 24 because of tuberculosis.

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2025-09-04 13:38:52 UTC

Element that distinguished Poe's gothic horror stories is horror and dread

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2025-09-04 13:38:54 UTC

I think that Poes love, grief and guilt in his writing lead him to be disquotable from other authors.

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2025-09-04 13:39:17 UTC

Poe's horror stories are different from others because his are shorter, so you can read it in one sitting and his are about self destruction, while mostly others write horror as someone being haunted or paranormal.

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2025-09-04 13:39:39 UTC

Poe had a difficult life with many struggles like poverty and loss. His wife and mother both died of tuberculosis at 24. His work was mostly popular in adaptations while he was alive leaving other people with the money and he was only widely recognized after his death. He also likely suffered from depression, and we can infer this from the very dark themes that are prevalent in his work.

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2025-09-04 13:40:20 UTC

The elements that distinguished Poes horror stories are that he hinted supernatural ideas.

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2025-09-04 13:40:46 UTC

Some factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life would be alcoholism and his wife and mother dying from tuberculosis at 24.

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2025-09-04 13:41:09 UTC

His stories were very ominous. He tried to make his stories very haunting and hypnotic. He followed 2 rules which were 1- to be short enough to read in one sitting, and 2- For every word to contribute to the story.

What elements distinguish Poe's gothic horror stories? #14

2025-09-04 13:42:36 UTC

Poe's gothic horror stories are marked by madness, death, and dark settings.

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2025-09-04 13:43:50 UTC

Some factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life is his mom and wife dying of tuberculosis and him having alcoholism.

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2025-09-04 13:44:05 UTC

Characteristics of detective fiction that can be traced back to Poe would be suspense.

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2025-09-04 13:44:20 UTC

A characteristic of detective fiction that you can trace back to Poe is mystery.

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2025-09-04 13:51:43 UTC

Poe is often credited with inventing the modern detective story, a characteristics of detective fiction we can trace to Poe is deep hidden meaning, its not obvious, and require careful interpretation to uncover!

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2025-09-04 13:54:53 UTC

some factors that contributed to Poe's difficult life are that he was an orphan adopted by the Allan family, his mother and wife died at the ripe age of 24 with Tuberculosis, Poe was also an alcoholic, and poor.