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Edgar Allan Poe’s early works have had a great influence on American literature and art providing a concrete building block for Poe’s works to later influence other countries as well. Despite being an orphan and growing up with having to adapt to different people and different settings Poe began to write legendary works at an early age. He stated that if his poems weren’t that good his age could be at fault and that if his poems were good he could be said to be a genius. This leaves the reader with plenty of room for imagination. Many themes in his poems convey the idea that imagination is better than reality because when imagining, reality could be made as superior as Poe desired. Poe was not emotionally mature enough to except the reality of his parent’s death, so therefore he used transforming childhood experiences in his dreams as other major themes in his writing. Poe used many different themes and motifs but the ideas that were clearly focused on reflected his thoughts that beauty and romance, through imagination and dreams, are the approach Poe took to associate with nature and to illustrate that as he aged his passions began to burn out.
Most of what happens in Poe’s writing is considered to be ambiguous because, for the most part, his experiences happen in his imagination. The transforming childhood experiences he has in his dreams suggest that something has happened to him by coming over him in some great way that he has been changed forever. In Tamerlane, the main character, who is very similar to Poe himself, goes through a occurrence where a storm puts him to sleep and as it passes by a strange light comes over him and when he awakes he is a different person. (Tamerlane) In this situation the storm changes his nature by taking over his passions with tyranny. Also suggesting that his passions were even stronger when he was younger by saying, “ Then, in my boyhood, when their fire/burn’d with a still intenser glow;...
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