Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Madness! A look into Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL Famous American poet, Allen Ginsberg is well known for his vile mouth, three-part poem called “HOWL”. It was published in 1956 and was looked as part of the Beat Generation’s turning point in the social movement and became part of one of the great works of American literature history. This poem expresses his thoughts and feelings on his life experience during a rough time period, post-World War II. It is mostly described as an angry, sexual and very…

Banned Books Banned books are books that have been challenged by someone and removed from a self for various reasons. The book “More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” was banned for graphic violence such as stories of a one armed man who escaped from an insane asylum who broke out and brutally murdered teenagers. There are is also a story of a man who was a jolly butcher who grounded up people and served them as “wonderful sausages”. There are also stories of the practice of satanic rituals.…

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien “In war, truth is the first casualty”. These words by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus show how the nature of war hasn’t changed in the last two thousand years. During times of War truth gets very muddy and hard to understand, it becomes hard to separate what really happened to what seems to have happened. Ambiguity is the common denominator of every War. “The Things They Carried” is a book about the Vietnam War, but it is also a book about Storytelling itself…

Furthermore, the loss of identity that occurs in war allows people to no longer be themselves leading to uncivilized behaviour and overall malicious behaviour. Xavier, the main character, becomes unrecognizable after the war to the point where he becomes a different person. When Niska first see him come off of the train from Toronto, he looks like “he is an old man […] so skinny. This cannot be Elijah […] one leg of his pants is pinned up and hangs down a little of the way, empty” (6). Xavier…

Firstly, in Edgar Allen Poe's The cask of Amontillado, pride incites to acts of vengeance. The character of Montresor and Fortunato are ideal to study the effects that pride can incite because they both have a huge sense of vanity attached to their being. Montresor is part of a noble family while Fortunato is a wealthy man who is proficient in fine wine. Both their pride will lead to acts of vengeance. In the first line, Montresor gives us an essential preview of the actions that will come in…

Trust is a hard thing to find when it comes to relationships with other people. It seems like no matter who you meet or who you turn to someone is always looking to hurt you. You have to be careful with who you tell your business to. Edgar Allan Poe shows this in his horror story called “The Cask of Amontillado”. It tells the story of a man named Montresor aiming to get revenge on his “friend” named Fortunato. Fortunato looks at Montresor as his friend but has no idea what is going through his…

literary elements to represent the idea that they are trying to point out. In the short story “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, Billy Weaver, a young 17 year old man, came across a boarding house named “Bed and Breakfast,” but he didn’t know that it would lead to his death. Although, in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, "A Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator kills an old man because of his “Evil Eye” since it had “vexed” him. He had finally confessed to the officers of the killing, after becoming…

A rebel, pioneer, recluse, and one of the founders of an idea that would sweep the world. No, it is not Obi-Wan Kenobi, but Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson is one of the most influential writers of the industrial era, as she was one of the first writers to use the concept of transcendentalism in her works. This means writing about all aspects of life, even the mundane, the vulgar, and the ugly as she realized that this style of writing more closely resembles life than the classic, formal style…

3rd Body: Self discovery Intro: The theme of self discovery is extremely present throughout the whole book. By the end of the book, almost every character has figured something out about themselves because of the experiences they have been through. Point: Miles had a joy for remembering people's last words before they died, Francois last words were the ones that made him begin his journey to self discovery and the Great Perhaps. Miles says Proof: "Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his…

Homer’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s, poem, “Siren Song” depict the siren in different views, such as Homer’s view as being mystical creatures and Atwood’s view as remorse beings, and contrasting point of views, like Odysseus's view as a victim and the siren view as the predator. In Homer's Odyssey the siren are interpreted through Odysseus point of view. Here Odysseus tells, “When the sirens sensed at once a ship was racing past and burst into their high, thrilling song… they sent ravishing…