Edgar ALLEN POEA TALENTED TORMENTED WRITERBY,TRENT GARVIN

THE EARLY YEARS BORN IN 1809 IN BOSTON,

MASSACHUSETTS HIS FATHER ABANDONED THE FAMILY

AND HIS MOTHER DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS

RAISED BY FOSTER PARENTS STARTED WRITING POEMS AND AT AGE

16 HAD ENOUGH TO FILL A BOOK

EDUCATION ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

WHERE HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE DUE TO HEAVY DEBT

ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AS HE CONTINUED TO WRITE

AFTER HIS FOSTER MOTHER’S DEATH IN 1829, HE BECAME A CADET IN THE US MILITARY ACADEMY AT WESTPOINT AND WAS EXPELLED FOR DELIBERATLEY MISBEHAVING

LITERARY CAREER BEST KNOWN AS A LITERARY CRITIC

DURING HIS LIFETIME TODAY IS WELL KNOWN FOR STORIES IN

THE GOTHIC TRADITION FOUNDER OF THE SHORT STORY FIRST TO WRITE DETECTIVE STORIES POE THOUGHT HIS POEMS WERE HIS

GREATEST WORKS

LITERARY DEVICES USED ALLITERATION- REPETITION OF THE INITIAL

CONSONANT ASSONANCE- REPETITION OF SIMILAR VOWEL

SOUNDS CLIMAX- THE TURNING POINT OF THE ACTION

IN THE PLOT OF A PLAY OR STORY FORESHADOWING- HINT OF WHAT IS TO COME

IN THE ACTION OF A PLAY OR STORY HYPERBOLE- A FIGURE OF SPEECH INVOLVING

EXAGGERATION

STRUGGLES/SETBACKS FOSTER FATHER DIED AND LEFT HIM NOTHING DISPUTES WITH EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY

MESSENGER LED HIM TO RESIGN BECAME EDITOR OF BURTON’S GENTLEMEN’S

MAGAZINE BUT WAS FIRED MARRIED VIRGINIA CLEMM IN 1836 AND SHE DIED IN

1842 DIED IN 1849 AFTER COLLAPSING ON A STREET IN

BALTIMORE AFTER HIS DEATH A BIOGRAPHY WAS PUBLISHED THAT

ATTACKED HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND RUINED HIS REPUTATION FOR YEARS.

CAUSE OF DEATH THEORY WAS HE DIED OF HEART

FAILURE FROM CONSUMING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL

ANOTHER THEORY THAT HE DIED FROM RABIES, AFTER A CARDIOLOGIST REVIEWED HIS CASE

POE’S LEGACY

WORKS EXPLORED THE DARK SIDE OF HUMAN NATURE

WORKS REFLECTED A LIFE OF PAIN AND LOSS

TODAY HE IS RECOGNIZED AS A MASTER OF POETRY AND SHORT STORIES

HIS FAMOUS WORKS: A RECITATION- THE RAVENONCE UPON THE MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY, OVER MANY A QUAINT AND CURIOUS VOLUME OF FORGOTTEN LORE, WHILE I NODDED NEARLY NAPPING, SUDDENLY THERE CAME A TAPPING,AS ONE GENTLY RAPPING, RAPPING AT MY CHAMBER DOOR.”TIS SOME VISITOR”, I MUTTERED “TAPPING AT MY CHAMBER DOOR-ONLY THIS AND NOTHING MORE…..

HIS FAMOUS WORKS: ANNABEL LEE- A RECITATION IT WAS MANY AND MANY YEARS AGO , IN A

KINGDOM BY THE SEA, THAT A MAIDEN THERE LOVED WHOM YOU MAY

KNOW BY THE NAME OF ANNABEL LEE;-- AND THIS MAIDEN SHE LIVED WITH NO OTHER

THOUGHT THAN THE LOVE AND LOVED BY ME.

SHE WAS A CHILD AND I WAS A CHILD, IN THIS KINGSOM BY THE SEA,BUT WE LOVED WITH A LOVE THAT WAS MORE THAN LOVE—

I AND MY ANNABEL LEE--