Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Styles

Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style and techniques are very unique to him. All of his stories are set around with the following themes or ideas. They all are considered suspense type stories that involve murderous or insane character as its protaganist. Usually, always the protaganist in his stories commits some type of crime, such as murder, and tried to conceal it from other characters in the story. Another, view to identify that a story is written by Poe, is the type of setting. Most often all his stories take place in a bedroom in a house that is often dark, hardly any light to get in. Another aspect unique to Poe’s writing is the fact of images and use of words to express the feeling of horror or suspense …show more content…
Poe thought it was from his mother that he got the talents of being a reciter of verse. One, major event early on his life before the age of three is his mother passed away, this is what lead him to writing his poems in an attempt to find an woman to remember his mother. At the same time, of his mother’s death his father abandoned the family and probably died a short time later. A family in Richmond, Virgina took Poe in that held the family name of John Allan, and that is how Poe got his middle name from the adotpted family. About the year 1815 to 1820, the Allan family moved to England, this is how and where Poe got his first exposure to gothic style figures senn in his settings of his stories. By, the time he reached age eighteen, he had published a small book of poems. Poe started his first job at the Southern Literary Messenger as being an editor in 1835. Most of Poe’s famous works were published in both Burton’s and Graham’s magazines while, Poe was working on the staff at those locations. The story “The Raven” was what made him to be standout, and to start earning lots of money. Poe, passed away at a very young age of forty on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, …show more content…
The cat’s name in this story is Pluto. In, the first paragraph of “The Black Cat”, the unnamed narrator states the following, “tomorrow he should die for commiting the crimes”(Poe). The two crimes committed in this story by the naarator is the killing of his wife as well, as the killing of his first cat. In an article by Susan Amper called “Untold Story:The Lying Narrator in “The Black Cat” states two observations of “someone being accused of a crime, that leads our common sense to: (1) we accept incriminating information as likely to be true, since the suspect would have no reason to invent it, (2) we give less credance to exculpatroy details”(Amper). The narrator tries to at the begnning of “The Black Cat” to admit his crimes. However, later on in the story, he tries to put the blame on the cat itself. The narrator, also tries to explain his actions due to his alcholism that led up to the killing of his cat. So, this story has what is called an unreliable narrator, this type of narrator relates to events in a story in a distorted manner, by indicating early on in the story that the narrator is not to be trusted. Which, is exactly taking place in this story, the unnammed narrator, keeps changing his thoughts and actually how the events occurred. Towards the beginning of this story, the narrator states the following: “observing my partially for domestic