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Edgar Allan Poe
The literary style of Edgar Allan Poe is very dark and has many supernatural connotations. He showed this style in the stories that he wrote such as: The Raven, The Black Cat, and The Tell-Tale Heart. He also wrote many other stories that showed his dark style of writing; however I felt that these stories portrayed his style the best. Many sources think that the reason Poe had such a dark literary style was because of the events that occurred in his life. Some of these events included his father dying, and soon after that his mother died. Many more loved ones deaths preceded. This put Poe into a state of mind that made him very depressed and some believe that this is where he got his inspiration for his writing.
In The Raven, Poe starts off the story with “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”(Complete 7) This shows how he sets up the setting for the story. This sentence makes you think of a dark lonely night. This is a good example of how Poe’s literary style is dark. Poe also wrote “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;---vainly I had sought to borrow from books surcease of sorrow---sorrow for the lost Lenore---for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore---nameless here for evermore” (Complete 7). This is a dark poem of lost love. Whether he was referring to his mother, father or perhaps another loved one is unknown. In the fourth stanza Poe speaks of “Darkness there, and nothing more”(Complete 8) which allows us to see how alone he must have felt. Later in the story he refers to a bird that is sitting above his chamber door. He talks to the bird and gets frustrated with it because all it will ever say to him is “Nevermore.” You can tell that the narrator is dying to have some kind of social interaction with someone or something but not even the bird will give it to him. He...
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