Edgar Allan Poe by Carmen Mitchell https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1 Made with big dreams en-us 2016-11-03 19:36:51 UTC 2025-10-17 23:06:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png Edgar Allan Poe  carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135226944 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.]]> 2016-11-03 19:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135226944 carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228085 Edgar Allan Poe died a mysterious death.]]> 2016-11-03 19:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228085 Poe made a book  carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228199 The Tell‑Tale Heart
1843]]> 2016-11-03 19:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228199 three of his works are  jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228389 1873, Ligeia.
1873, the Haunted Palace
1839, Tales of the grotesque and Arabesque 
]]> 2016-11-03 20:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228389 Edgar Allan Poe's mother carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228413 died on  December 8, 1811]]> 2016-11-03 20:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135228413 jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135229188 Poe married Virginia Clemm. Poe’s wife contracted Tuberculosis 

]]> 2016-11-03 20:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135229188 five theories about his death are jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135229317 1. he got mugged
2. alcoholism
3. rabies
4. medical problems
5.the cooping theory  ]]> 2016-11-03 20:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135229317 four of his quotes are  carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135230451 The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?


Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

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

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.]]> 2016-11-03 20:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135230451 jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135230462 Poe Toaster is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified person 

]]> 2016-11-03 20:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135230462 Poe was burried in Westheimer Hall in Baltimore. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135497762 2016-11-04 19:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135497762 Edgar Allan Poe had two siblings: an older brother William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister Rosalie Poe. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498705 2016-11-04 19:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498705 By the age of only 13 Edgar Allan Poe had written enough poetry that he could have published his own book. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498810 2016-11-04 19:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498810 Edgar Allan Poe's first published book (when he was only 18) was titled Tamerlane. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498901 2016-11-04 19:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498901 carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498922  He was a literary trailblazer]]> 2016-11-04 19:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135498922 Edgar self-published many of his own short stories. One story won a contest sponsored by the Saturday Visitor jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499010 2016-11-04 19:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499010 After winning the contest with Saturday Visitor he continued to publish his works and the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond hired him in an editorial position. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499098 2016-11-04 19:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499098 Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia died at the age of 24. His writing career came to a halt because he was so devastated by Virginia's death. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499318 2016-11-04 19:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499318 carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499479 2016-11-04 19:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499479 Edgar Allan Poe died only two years later. His last two years were spent traveling and giving lectures. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499828 2016-11-04 19:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135499828 Edgard allen poe was just burried in box jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135500995 2016-11-04 19:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135500995 damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135502622 2016-11-04 19:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135502622 His father abandoned his family when Poe was one, and his mother died from tuberculosis when he was two. He was subsequently orphaned, and taken in by John and Frances Allan, from whom he adopted the name Allan. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503104 2016-11-04 19:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503104 His childhood and adolescence were plagued by the deaths of those close to him: his mother died when he was 2, his first love when he was 15, and his foster mother when he was 20. His brother died of alcoholism-related illnesses when Poe was 22. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503169 2016-11-04 19:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503169 He and Nathaniel Hawthorne feuded over plagiarism claims. Poe also accused Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of plagiarism. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503285 2016-11-04 19:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503285 Poe invented the word “tintinnabulation” to describe the sound of ringing bells. He first used the word in his poem “The Bells.” jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503425 2016-11-04 20:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503425 damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503834 2016-11-04 20:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503834 Loneliness, despair and poverty were key themes throughout Poe’s life, as his father abandoned them when he was barely two years old. Left to raise three children on her own, Eliza succumbed to tuberculosis and died in 1811; the first of many deaths that would affect Poe’s work. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503959 2016-11-04 20:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135503959 He was known as a ‘Magazinist’ in his lifetime, as he spent most of his career writing and editing various publications including Gentlemen’s Magazine and the Southern Literary Messenger. Subsequently he was fired from all his posts because of his severe drinking problem. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135504610 2016-11-04 20:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135504610 His first work to be published was Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827 when he was serving as a soldier. It was penned under the name of ‘a Bostonian’. Fifty copies were sold. jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135504980 2016-11-04 20:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135504980 He attended the west point militairy academy damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135935120 2016-11-07 20:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135935120 carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937882 His dark writing, coupled with his mysterious death, has made him one of the most famous macabre figures in history.]]> 2016-11-07 20:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937882 carmen_166140 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937941 His writing never got him paid]]> 2016-11-07 20:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937941 the tell-tale heart and the black cat we jackelyn_204208 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937961 2016-11-07 20:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135937961 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" is one of the most famous poems ever written in English. damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135940542 2016-11-07 20:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135940542 "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" were Both writtien on August 19, 1843 damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941222 2016-11-07 20:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941222 Almost all his close relatives and friends died by consumption including his mother, brother, adoptive mother, wife and two previous lovers. It was called the ‘family disease’. As a result, most of his short stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher contain female characters that are plagued by unknown illnesses.  damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941330 2016-11-07 20:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941330 damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941823 Almost all his close relatives and friends died by consumption including his mother, brother, adoptive mother, wife and two previous lovers. It was called the ‘family disease’. As a result, most of his short stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher contain female characters that are plagued by unknown illnesses. ]]> 2016-11-07 20:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135941823 Poe may have been named after the character Edgar in Shakespeare’s King Lear, a play his parents were performing at the time of his birth. damien_174667 https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135944529 2016-11-07 21:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/carmen_166140/ytvccr909xk1/wish/135944529