My stunning padlet by Matthew Homen

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:30:11 UTC

Edgar Allen Poe was born in January 19th of 1809, in Boston MA.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:33:22 UTC

His father left his family early in his life while he was just a little kid. His mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was the age of three!

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:35:13 UTC

They raised him as a part of the family and gave them their middle name, his new parents never adopted him but gave him a name to have.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:38:01 UTC

He went to US Military Academy at West Point. Allan intervened on the behalf of last time and used his influence to secure the appointment. He entered the academy in 1830.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:38:31 UTC

He married A girl named Virginia in 1936, she was 13 years old and he was 27 years old. She became ill with tuberculosis, she died on the disease on January 30,1847 at the age of 24.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:41:06 UTC

His first published literary work was called "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque."

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:43:05 UTC

One of his greatest written literacy papers was called "The Raven" it was published to be worshipped and known as a great literacy art piece. One of the most famous art pieces for the time the poem made him a celebrity.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:45:23 UTC

Edgar Allen Poe died on October 7, 1849, in Balitmore, Maryland, US. It is not known for sure how he passed away but it was a great chance it was from the lack of his immune system and from a sickness because there was no good medication in the 1800s.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:46:45 UTC

Edgar Allen Poe passed and was buried in Westminster Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, MD. Where he was secure and loved by other family members near his grave stone.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:48:44 UTC

His mother died and his father left him, these events caused and led to many stories having advanced details of the struggle of an orphan, he was later picked up from another couple who never really legally adopted him, they gave him the name they always wanted too but he was never taken to get adopted and have actual parents.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:50:31 UTC

Edgar Allen Poe created so many thoughts for other people. His death being unknown is what everyone is trying to figure out in his time. He could've passed away from suicide,murder,cholera,hypoglycemia, rabies, etc. All these must've effected how he lived and could've led him more into the first option, suicide.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:52:39 UTC

His was enlisted into the US Army in 1827, his first poem Tamerlane, and other poems were published in the same year, he published a second collection entitled AI Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:53:54 UTC

Edgar Allen Poe posted a album called "Detective story." Which was published in April of 1841 issued with Grahams ladies and Gentlemans magazine

14. What is a Poe Toaster?

mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:54:54 UTC

A Poe Toaster is a media sobriquet used told refer to an unidentified person who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to an AMerican author that has passed away anonymously.

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mhomen408390 — 2024-03-05 20:56:42 UTC

Gothic Literature was made of Death and decay, haunted homes, and castles. fully of family curses madness and powerful love and Romance. This literature is full of fear, anxious feelings and excitement all at the same time.