https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w Edgar Allen Poe en-us 2017-11-03 17:54:13 UTC 2025-12-28 09:31:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/183710639/fe15269d1814e47c09c2aace647d28d1/raven.svg john_267445 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203421379 Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts.]]> 2017-11-03 18:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203421379 john_267445 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203425102 No one in Poe's family had a middle name. It was kind of like a tradition. He then recieved the name Allen because of his foster parents. He was finally given the name at his christening on January 7, 1812 three years after being born.]]> 2017-11-03 18:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203425102 logan_225439 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203426027 Poe attended West Point, a famous military high school. Although he got expelled from all of his classes. ]]> 2017-11-03 18:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203426027 parisna_229646 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203429464 Poe's first published book was "Tamerlane and Other Poems", which was published in 1827. This novel is about Tamerlane, a warlord, who ignores his love for a peasant named "Ada". On his deathbed, Tamerlane starts to regret exchanging a kingdom for a broken heart. The poems in this novel was largely inspired by Lord Byron.]]> 2017-11-03 18:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203429464 logan_225439 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203484804 Poe died on October 7 ,1849 in front of Church Home and Hospital. There are many theories circulating on how Poe died, from  alcohol to rabies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4LhLq3xNXI]]> 2017-11-03 21:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203484804 logan_225439 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203486647 The Murders of Rue Morgue was the first of detective stories, it inspired later stories like Sherlock Holmes. The story starts when a woman and her daughter are murdered. An investigation takes place where the main detective concludes that it is impossible for a human to kill them with the clues provided. Therefore, he deducted that the "Ourang-Outang" (Orangutan) committed the two murders. He later sold the ape when released from custody.]]> 2017-11-03 22:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203486647 john_267445 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203698908 The main event that inspired his writing was the death of his beloved parents Eliza and David Poe, three years after Edgar Allen's birth. His mother died of tiberculosis on December 8, 1811 . His father abadoned his family and eventually died around the same time his wife passed.]]> 2017-11-05 23:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203698908 john_267445 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203699964 Gothic Literature is made up of gloomy, dark settings. This includes castle and monestaries. It also includes supernatural monsters. It is all about evilness, death, and dispare.]]> 2017-11-05 23:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203699964 daniel_182499 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203960631 The poe toaster is a person  who has "toasted" Edgar Allen Poe on his birthday for decades. Each time the shadowy figure, the poe toaster, would visit Poe's grave, he would make a toast to Poe's memory with a glass of cognac.]]> 2017-11-06 16:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/203960631 parisna_229646 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204057110 After his death, there were many theories that were made of what caused it. Five of the thirteen theories that were developed are:
-Delirium Tremens
-Beating
-Dipsomania
-Toxic Disorder
-Carbon Monoxide Poisoning]]> 2017-11-06 18:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204057110 daniel_182499 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204060708 Poe married his thirteen year old cousin Virginia Clemm. She ended up dying of tuberculosis at the age of 24

]]> 2017-11-06 18:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204060708 blu_261788 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204062103 Edgar Allan Poe was famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," and "Annabel Lee"]]> 2017-11-06 18:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204062103 blu_261788 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204065900 Poe was a struggling writer who submitted his poems and writing to multiple magazines. They rejected all of them he would then ask for help from a man named John Allen who died 3 years later after Edgar Allen Poe's letter for help. Soon Poe finally got a job as an editor for a newspaper. He would soon leave and begin his writing career]]> 2017-11-06 19:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204065900 logan_225439 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204068636 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-387NMCR6w]]> 2017-11-06 19:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204068636 john_267445 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204458728 2017-11-07 16:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204458728 daniel_182499 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204529075 When Poe was three his father had abandoned his family, and his mother died from tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia.]]> 2017-11-07 18:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204529075 blu_261788 https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204533375 Poe was soon buried on October 9, 1849, Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, MD]]> 2017-11-07 19:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/blu_261788/wq8q30aew25w/wish/204533375