The Raven And El Dorado By Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Style Edgar Allan Poe was an author of the 19th century, and had many tragic tales in his life. This included many of his closely loved ones dying of tuberculosis, being in debt for half his life, and never having a loving father. Despite all this, he chose to be an author, and wrote The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and El Dorado. Mr. Poe was an amazing author of his time, taking actual parts of his life and putting it into a different story, with different people. His work was a combination of melancholy, patience, and gruesome fantasies.
Poe lost many loved ones, and faced poverty alone more than half the time. When he was almost three, he lost his mother due to tuberculosis, and was …show more content…
It seems that he would then need to work slowly with his writings, building himself up for the sad and horrible parts to come, in story and in life. Even though he knew exactly what was to happen and how, he had to be very patient when building the suspense, doing everything in just the best ways, making sure that none know what is exactly happening, so that they had to figure it out themselves, while he himself knew all and none of it. He would even have fits of insanity near his death, worrying that people would come after him, try to kill him in the very least. The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart are great examples about his patience for suspense with narrators who are going mad but say they aren’t. He shows them being very patient with their problems, but going slowly mad at what they did. Poe has enough patience to let the narrator's go about their business slowly, and even describes every minute action with great detail. His patience with reliving all of his trial's over and over again is very inspiring and saddening, and his patience with inching others along, suspending them from beliefs of unspeakable horrors, knowing just how to make it seem horrific in the smallest …show more content…
People had nightmares because of The Raven, and dreamed of horrible black birds driving them to insanity. If someone said that Poe’s stories were just fairy tales, and not scary at all, they probably haven’t read The Black Death or The Black Cat. One of the most gruesome parts of his works are in The Black Cat, where when the narrator was so angry at this cat that haunted him, turned to kill it with an axe. When he tried to do that, the wife stopped him, and in his anger, he put the axe through her head instead. The narrator decided to hide the wife inside of the wall, but didn’t notice that he had sealed in the cat as well. Days later, after a confrontation with the police, he opened the wall where his wife had been decaying, and a large, red mouth was staring down at him, with the wife half eaten. It’s supposed that the cat had eaten the wife while stuck in the wall, with her blood around it’s mouth. This is a very gruesome image to think about, but perhaps not as gruesome as imagining someone cutting you up into pieces and then placing these under a floor board. That happened almost exactly in The Tale-Tell Heart, where a servant to an old man suffocated his master with his mattress and then proceeded to confess to having done so after going insane. The servant had cut his master into different pieces over a bathtub, and lied about where his master was at that time. He then went insane and confessed. This all happened just because