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The Haunted Palace

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Cast of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart, a Comparison

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Poushkin, Poe and Revenge

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

The Tell-Tale Heart and the Doppelganger Image

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

Deviance in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...

Gothic Genre of Edgar Allan Poe

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

Poetic Melancholy in the Prose of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

Gothic Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Their Domestic Settings

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Poe satirizes transcendentalism in this story. There are 6 sources cited in the ...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe and Reader Response Theory

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

Gothic Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

2 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Anxiety, Guilt, Fear, and Confined Space

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...

Perfection Seeking in Literature

Using these two authors as our information base, we might say that one, in light of our life today, chose an unrealistic goal. The...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Satire Used by Edgar Allan Poe in 'The Spectacles'

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

'The Spectacles' by Edgar Allan Poe and His Use of Satire

In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...