Edgar Allan Poe Legacy

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Edgar Allan Poe was an excellent writer. Edgar Allan Poe had a rough life. His mother was taken away from him before he even got to know her due to tuberculosis. As he began to grow up and get older, his foster mother was taken from him -- again, due to tuberculosis. In addition, as if that wasn’t enough for a young man to go through, he then loses his beloved wife to tuberculosis. His father was never there for him due to abandonment and his foster father could care less for him. However, throughout all the pain and torment, he still managed to find the strength to write seventy poems and sixty-six short stories rather than mourning or grieving himself to death. His first poem was published in the year 1827. Twenty-two years after that, Poe …show more content…

Having no children, his legacy began on January 19, 1809, and ended October 7, 1849. Poe’s writing, however, has lived on for many years. His writing style has been very consistent; especially with the works “The Cask of Amontillado”, “Annabelle Lee”, and “The Pit and the Pendulum.” Edgar Allan Poe had a tendency to isolate his main characters in his works. Take “The Pit and the Pendulum” for example. The story started with the main character being sentenced to death. “I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence -- the dread sentence of death -- was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ear.” From there he fainted, and woke up in a dungeon. “I had swooned; but still will not say that all of consciousness was lost. What of it there remained I will not attempt to define, or even to describe; yet all was not lost.” “At length, with a wild desperation at heart, I quickly unclosed my eyes. My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed.” “Moreover, my dungeon, as well as all the condemned cells at Toledo, had stone floors, and light was not

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