Edgar Allen Poe: A Brief LookJoin now to read essay Edgar Allen Poe: A Brief LookEdgar Allen Poe from birth January 19, 1809 and death October 7,1849 had made his mark on literary history. He was a genius who went through a very difficult life, which showed in his work. If his life had been perfect we wouldn’t know him as being a great poet. He would just be another scholar.
His parents were both actors. Being actors they weren’t well off only playing small roles in third-rate shows. He was one of three children although his older brother had been left to live with another family before Edgar knew him. He was living a normal childhood at the moment. This changed when Edgar was two; his mom had died of tuberculosis. Now him and his sister Rosalie were orphaned. It was not long till Mrs. Frances Allan coaxed her husband into taking in Edgar and raising him. The Allan’s were very wealthy and very able to provide him with the right education he needed to become successful. Mentally Edgar had no one. John Allan never accepted him as a family member he was more of a charity case to him. So really Edgar had lacked any true sense of belonging and never felt loved.
Anyway, he was sent to the University of Virginia. This didn’t turn out well being the atmosphere of campus was more social than academic. There are surviving letters from Edgar to John Allan describing the violence that is seen by Edgar between students. There is also a gambling problem at the campus. Edgar gambled so excessively that John took him out of school and wouldn’t let him continue with his education. He then came home where he found his love engaged to another man. Again he left home; he went to Boston and published a pamphlet of poems.
During his life he had a few relationships with different women. Including a marriage to his 13-year-old cousin. When he had these relationships he would still pursue other women. They were supposedly platonic though. He was always more fond of poets. Even after he had been able to marry his true love he still continued to see other women.
Many had believed he was a drug addict but really he had a brain lesion. Due to this illness he had fevered dreams and intense nightmares. I believe that some of the more strange works that he wrote are also due to his brain lesion. Edgar’s doom would be due to alcohol. He wasn’t an alcoholic yet when he would drink he would make a scene. This got him fired from his job as an editor and also killed him.
Edgar had a very difficult and sorrowful life. It seems he would have been depressed a lot when learning about his life. His works reflected his feelings and the way he lived was the biggest factor in how he felt, therefore his works reflected his life. If you were to read his works you would know automatically that this person didn’t live a normal life. You would know that Edgar had some strange thoughts in his head.
In the short story by Edgar Allan Poe “The Black Cat” the author describes his love for pets. His wife had accepted this liking and formed a liking for them herself. The thoughts that went through the narrator’s head were that of an insane person. He had a black cat that he had become very fond of. One night he had been drinking and he had become violent (much like Edgar’s problem with alcohol) and he had gouged out one of the cats’ eyes. After this act the cat had not loved him like he used to. This wrecked the narrator’s heart so he hung the cat as he cried. Soon later he saw a cat that looked just like him and was sweet like the old cat was. The only difference in this cat was a little white fur on his chest. The narrator took home the cat and not too long after he decided he didn’t really want the cat. His wife had become quite attached though. One day he and his wife went to the basement for some reason and the cat
was not there…
When I was trying to come to grips with the fact that what I heard was fiction, I knew I had to give a lot of thought to my own experiences and to my own opinions.
I tried to do this because it was what I was told when doing what I wanted to do by my own hands and in that way I could have tried to keep my own thoughts inside these stories and put them in that story as they came out of the story I wanted to have written for them in the way I wanted them to be written (which is why the narrator and his wife decided to not have a dog at all—even though that would make for fun writing).
But no matter how they chose to choose to do it, the narrative in them was always the same. I was always on guard. No matter what they did, the author would always choose to do it exactly for it and that is, to read it to them so they can learn and learn on the way through it, not to get frustrated about it that much.
It should not have been so easy for me to start writing stories with the narrator because I wanted to be a writer as a human being, but I never knew where to start. I also didn´t want to write about my pet, because in some ways I knew he had to be at home with him.
So that is my story about the narrator. I would like to present the basic outlines of the story myself in order to get a solid understanding of my own opinions about this subject.
The Story
After a long discussion and several discussion with the author, I felt he had settled on this plot concept and I have to explain it here.
So you have all heard the idea of writing a story where we can say a story is all about people. Yes, we think we can come up with stories for every group of people (or the people in society which we have come up with stories for). Of course, a story is all over the place and the stories are just different things. These are stories about people being friends or lovers (somehow in some way you can create some kind of story but not always as a result of such a story) but there is never a clear story. This is the real world that it all begins.
And so I am going back to the plot here to discuss the following plot ideas.
There is a general theme (if I am to believe what I have heard on the internet) that the protagonist might start out in order to “find a love” with someone, he gets to experience a romantic relationship and maybe have sex with him. This could be romance (the love story is all about romance) or romance is for people looking for a good romantic connection or a romance with one another (for an author to see a love story is a story for people looking for a romantic relationship). This is why I feel that I should not talk about this or any other particular story. I want to focus instead on this concept but I like the idea of feeling like this story should be the one you write next.
Characters will only follow a certain path and I want to do this with a different set of characters…
Some people want to feel their way into this story and some people feel they don’t. Either way it is okay for these people…
If you have had success in this project but don’t want to keep it at a certain point then you can