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 Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:53 pm
This topic is dedicated to one of my favorate writers, and a very famouse one indeed, Edgar Allen Poe. Although he also wrote short stories, he was a poet as well, one of his best known poems being The Raven. I have a small book containing his works, supousidly uncondenced.
Part of this discussion also has to deal with his image. As everyone knows he always was a sad, depressed man. Some say he is a genius, while others have dubbed him insane. Still, some like me, see the line between genius and insanity very thin, and where he stood could never truely be decifered, and he may have stood directly on that line. Many of my classmates remember him, not for his works, but for the fact that he married his cousin. I think it is very sad indeed.
But, this is basicly where you talk about your favorate works (poetry in particulare) from him, and just Edgar Allen Poe in general.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:38 pm
I'm a new Poe fan so I'm still determining what most of his poems mean. I'm a big fan of his most popular: The Raven and Annabel Lee. And I finally read the Tell-tale Heart which I thought was really interesting, but disturbing.
I don't know much about Poe himself, though.
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:48 pm
lilybee I'm a new Poe fan so I'm still determining what most of his poems mean. I'm a big fan of his most popular: The Raven and Annabel Lee. And I finally read the Tell-tale Heart which I thought was really interesting, but disturbing. I don't know much about Poe himself, though. Yes, Tell-tale heart is a very good work of his.
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:39 pm
I always forget that he married his cousin. Odd since it's little things like that are what I tend to remember about historical figures.
As for liking the man, I can't really say that I am a fan of his work even though I admit that he's made contributions to literature. Most people who dislike someone tend to ignore what they've done for the genre and such. I have a paperback collection of his work somewhere... ah, yes, I see it on the shelf now! Some of the things that I think of when thinking of Poe also seem to apply to the Marquis de Sade. Both of these persons enjoy looking at the darker side of human nature and there is no hope to be found in their literary worlds.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:33 pm
His cousin was 13 at the time, no less.
I haven't read all of his work, but I am familiar. The one thing that gets me is his apparent self-image: such as the line in The Raven "doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." The poems protagonist might not be Poe himself, but assuming it is, that line has always made me think "EMO!" (Before I knew what an Emo was, I used to simply think it arrogant of him to believe that no one had a mind as dark as his.)
But then again, I could be interpreting it in a manner other than that which Poe intended. Maybe the poem's protagonist was supposed to be expanding his own suffering. Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek.
Has anyone here ever been to Baltimore? I went there for one day to see the National Aquarium. I ate lunch outside, and everywhere I went there was some reference to Poe. "The Raven" scrawled on a sign, sculpted ravens in the mall, things all around about the poem. It was weird until I learned that he'd lived there. 3nodding
A little info on the Edgar Allen Poe House.
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:03 pm
Fairgrass His cousin was 13 at the time, no less.
I haven't read all of his work, but I am familiar. The one thing that gets me is his apparent self-image: such as the line in The Raven "doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." The poems protagonist might not be Poe himself, but assuming it is, that line has always made me think "EMO!" (Before I knew what an Emo was, I used to simply think it arrogant of him to believe that no one had a mind as dark as his.)
But then again, I could be interpreting it in a manner other than that which Poe intended. Maybe the poem's protagonist was supposed to be expanding his own suffering. Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek.
Has anyone here ever been to Baltimore? I went there for one day to see the National Aquarium. I ate lunch outside, and everywhere I went there was some reference to Poe. "The Raven" scrawled on a sign, sculpted ravens in the mall, things all around about the poem. It was weird until I learned that he'd lived there. 3nodding
A little info on the Edgar Allen Poe House. I think that line was meant to make the feeling of the poem more intense.
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:40 am
While the Raven is incredibly celebrated, and I do not disown its value, I think it further from one of his best works.
I tend to thoroughly enjoy E.A.P.'s short stories. "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Cask Of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" more specifically.
I won't discuss the topic of sanity or genius, as all literary icons throughout history who are legendary tend to shift into such a category, though always is it an interesting conversation piece.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:37 pm
Quote: Poe is a master of literature!
I have his entire works, and I love it. Emotional writing, like melancholy or angry, has always been a favorite of mine.
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:36 pm
Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favorite poets and arthors I like to read. I like the way he writes his poems, and his stories are great to read on All Hallow's Eve (it's an old way of saying Halloween). He is actually one of the best gothic poets I've ever read. smile
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:00 am
Actually, Poe was never considered gothic. In fact, he was one of the most outspoken Romantics. However, in today's society we tend to associate anything that has to do with death or gloom as goth-like.
Poe was far from the only literary historian to use this tool, but he was one of the only to be known for it. Mary Shelley is another Romantic known as otherwise.
I just really wanted to clear that up. Poe's works are displayed in Hot Topic's across the nation and the appreciation for the work itself dwindles to me every time I think of it. ;____;
I agree, his stories make for much fun on Halloween.
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:04 pm
I adore both "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of Amontillado."
However I also adored "The Black Cat," "The Gold-bug," and, I believe it was called, "The Theatre Glasses."
Mmm. I have the full unabriged works of E.A.P. I really need to read some of it again.
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:24 pm
Egar Allen Poe is my favorite classic writer...I have a couple books of his works....including one with his unknown works...I havent read very many of them though because they're mostly essays on different topics.
My favorites would have to be The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-tale heart, The Raven, and The Cask of Amontillado.
About him being insane, I also beleive that there's a thin line between genius and insanity.
-//- cool -//-
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:37 am
I adore Poe's writing, especially his poetry. My favourite poem has to be "A Dream Within A Dream". His prose and short stories are excellent as well, and although most of them are quite morbid, "Diddling" never fails to make me laugh, for some reason. It's just so bizarre. Edgar Allan Poe Diddling–or the abstract idea conveyed by the verb to diddle–is sufficiently well understood. Yet the fact, the deed, the thing diddling, is somewhat difficult to define. We may get, however, at a tolerably distinct conception of the matter in hand, by defining- not the thing, diddling, in itself–but man, as an animal that diddles. Had Plato but hit upon this, he would have been spared the affront of the picked chicken. Very pertinently it was demanded of Plato, why a picked chicken, which was clearly "a biped without feathers," was not, according to his own definition, a man? But I am not to be bothered by any similar query. Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man. It will take an entire hen-coop of picked chickens to get over that.
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:02 am
I have a leather bound copy of his complete works and i love it my favorite poem is "The Raven" I also love thecask of amotiolado(SC)
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:16 pm
"God gave me great talent, but quenched it in misery." Something like that. I always forget the exact wording, but this is one of my favorite quotes ever.
"The Raven" is probably the work I like the most, but I loved "The Black Cat." *huggles depressed Poe*
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