Running Goddess wrote:
My daughter is writing an essay on Edgar Allan Poe. Was he a good writer/thinker?
You are an adult and you have never read anything by Poe?
Running Goddess wrote:
My daughter is writing an essay on Edgar Allan Poe. Was he a good writer/thinker?
You are an adult and you have never read anything by Poe?
Poe was brilliant. The Raven is open to so many interpretations. Was the Raven real or just a hallucination? Did he imagine that it spoke Nevermore? Is it possible that Nevermore was the only word the Raven knew? If so, why did the narrator's mind create such leading questions for it to answer? Did his mind already anticipate those answers and word his questions unconsciously to make his grief even deeper?
Did the narrator die in the end? Or was the ending a metaphor of some kind? If the narrator died, who wrote the poem? Was it all just a dream? How would a rational mind, say Sherlock Holmes, interpret the narration?
Running Goddess wrote:
My daughter is writing an essay on Edgar Allan Poe. Was he a good writer/thinker?
No. He didn't have any amazing, grammatically incorrect quotes about pink shoes.
Yes
Lived out his last days in Baltimore. rojo's Baltimore. So of course he is up there as a GOAT writer.
£££££ wrote:
One of the best US writers of the 19th century.
Shakespeare sucked in comparison.
Radical CJ wrote:
He has a very good feel for rhyme and meter, but his subject matter is pretty childish and uninspiring: i.e. death, depression, mysticism.
Yes, that's more or less what Formalist critics like Robert Penn Warren thought -- a master of sound devices, but at the end there was no there there. He disects "Ulalume."
Dude drank hisself to death. Some of his best work was done while drunk or during alcohol withdrawal hallucinations. Stephen King did the same thing and said he was inspired by Poe, so thats a report angle for her that no one else has.
He was dark and twisted.
Would have flipped and done a mass shooting if he was around today.
The Raven is a poem about his guilt that he killed this chick named Lenore. Or she died somehow and it’s his fault but no one knows this.
It’s his conscious eating at him.
Lenore will be here nevermore.
‘Cause she’s dead.
He thinks he hears the raven saying this because it’s all that is on his mind.
He did something sketchy.
Running Goddess wrote:
My daughter is writing an essay on Edgar Allan Poe. Was he a good writer/thinker?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mrBFoo5PJL8He was a first rate thinker and celebrated in the canon of national intellectuals and literacy. However, context indeed is important. Whether you compare him to Our Friend George Washington, or to John Updike or to Michael Phelps, he holds up rather well. I suspect he belonged to Ravenclaw. He may have had some insight into Gothic literature from the time of the
Völkerwanderung
Can we reasonably assume that he was an ethical man?
Dude is the Kipchoge of literature.
Running Goddess wrote:
Can we reasonably assume that he was an ethical man?
Didn't he marry his cousin?
Running Goddess wrote:
Can we reasonably assume that he was an ethical man?
If Harry Potter indeed were the heir of Slytherin, then it were quite appropriate that he would have a unique way of enjoying the commons. #undercoverboss #barrescue
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0hTgxkAf4As for Mr Poe, on can assume that as so many have memorized and adored his work that he was a tad overweanningly moral as is that virtuous American fashion of the old days.
2 different questions. He was a good and prolific writer in a tough time to make a living that way. But he was an alcoholic and infatuated with his cousin ($). For popular significance, listen to "I am the Walrus", Beatles, Sgt. Peppers. His face is on the cover.
No. The state forces young minds to read things that have no value and it is not only a waste of money and time it does damage. I know the intention is to make students "well rounded". Well, today many students are well rounded - as in fat. Students would be infinitely better if they were shown writings on aerobic exercise and how the subject and practice is vital to the quality of the rest of their lives.
He was not a good person. He was a raging alcoholic and dabbled in opium and absinthe. Early critics called his works "the strange outpourings of an opium eater". That being said, I loved his works.
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