Edgar Allan Poe was a distinct literary artist of the early 18th century. His works defined a generation of gothic romanticism. Everything from his style to his life played into how he wrote his poetry and short stories. Overall, Edgar Allan Poe was a mystical and romantic writer with a large portion of his writing going on to shape the future of the gothic genre we all know and love today. Through his detailed descriptions, mysterious characters, and dark subject matter Edgar Allan Poe was able to create wonderfully dark works of poetry and short stories that shook up the literature at the time, but also shaped our own literature today.
Poe’s life was one of troubling misfortune and constant struggle. He was born on
January 19, 1809 and …show more content…
His work was considered to be of the Gothic or dark romanticism genre. His work themes included death, premature burial, mourning, the dead coming alive and signs of death. When Poe wasn't writing horror stories about ravens and death he wrote satire and hoax tales. Poe was a fan of extravagance and irony and often used these ideas to move the reader away from cultural conformity. The story Metzengerstein (A story about an ongoing feud between two families that ends with a man being thrown into a burning house by an untamed horse) was the first story that Poe is known to have published. This just shows how dark Poe was even at the beginning of his literary career. Poe in his writings believed that a meaning for a work should just be right under the surface. A work with its meaning clear and wide open, Poe claimed, ceased to be a work of …show more content…
Time and time again the world was just seemingly not on his side. From the very beginning where his own father left him and his mother died, to a strict disciplined upbringing by a foster father, to a failed college attempt leading to Poe having to join the army. Yet Edgar forged on, continuing to write and make his works of art. He persevered showing it was possible to become a popular writer in a time where people would just plagiarize european works and publish them in the United States as their own. Poe wrote on, getting jobs at publication agencies and newspapers. To this day his works are still read and analysed as a centric point of romantic literature. Poe really wasn't dealt much of a fair hand in life, but he took what he knew and began to write. Without Poe would we know what dark horror looked like? Would our literature be shaped the way it is today? Poe truly was a mover and shaker of the time with all of his works, and still is
Poe’s life was one of troubling misfortune and constant struggle. He was born on
January 19, 1809 and …show more content…
His work was considered to be of the Gothic or dark romanticism genre. His work themes included death, premature burial, mourning, the dead coming alive and signs of death. When Poe wasn't writing horror stories about ravens and death he wrote satire and hoax tales. Poe was a fan of extravagance and irony and often used these ideas to move the reader away from cultural conformity. The story Metzengerstein (A story about an ongoing feud between two families that ends with a man being thrown into a burning house by an untamed horse) was the first story that Poe is known to have published. This just shows how dark Poe was even at the beginning of his literary career. Poe in his writings believed that a meaning for a work should just be right under the surface. A work with its meaning clear and wide open, Poe claimed, ceased to be a work of …show more content…
Time and time again the world was just seemingly not on his side. From the very beginning where his own father left him and his mother died, to a strict disciplined upbringing by a foster father, to a failed college attempt leading to Poe having to join the army. Yet Edgar forged on, continuing to write and make his works of art. He persevered showing it was possible to become a popular writer in a time where people would just plagiarize european works and publish them in the United States as their own. Poe wrote on, getting jobs at publication agencies and newspapers. To this day his works are still read and analysed as a centric point of romantic literature. Poe really wasn't dealt much of a fair hand in life, but he took what he knew and began to write. Without Poe would we know what dark horror looked like? Would our literature be shaped the way it is today? Poe truly was a mover and shaker of the time with all of his works, and still is