BIOGRAPHY EDGAR ALLAN POE Born Edgar Poe January 19, 1809 Boston, Massach usetts, United States Died October 7, 1849 (aged 40) Baltimore, Ma ryland, United States Nationality American SPOUSE Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe Ocupation writer, storyteller, poet, critic, journalist and editor MOVEMENTS dark Romanticism

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POETRY  "Al Aaraaf"  "Annabel Lee"  "The Bells"  "The City in the Sea"  "The Conqueror Worm"  "A Dream Within a Dream"  "Eldorado"  "Eulalie"  "The Haunted Palace"  "To Helen"  "Lenore"  "Tamerlane"  "The Raven"  "Ulalume"

IMPORTANT OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective story genre contributes to the emerging genre of science fiction Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, film and television. The Mystery Writers of America provide an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre

 Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography.

LITERARY STYLE AND THEMES Genres death issues physical signs descomposition effects concerns of premature burial the reanimation of the dead, and mournin dark romanticism genre, a literary reaction to transcendentalism Poe also wrote satires, humor tales and jokes Used irony and ludicrous extravagance best known for his works of fiction are gothic

LITERARY THEORY He disliked didacticism and allegory that quality work should be brief and focus on one specific effect the writer should carefully calculate every sentiment and idea " The Raven ", Metaphors

CHARACTER The characters in the works of Poe are dynamic because That is a character undergoes important changes Throughout The work and round character is a character that has vivid character traits. SEETING The thinking of Poe or takes to write such stories whose themes are mysterious indicating that his personality is reflected in his writings. His death is mysterious.

 TONE Is somber all the time keeps the reader in suspense, connecting ideas and facts. DIALOGUE fail terror mystery critical  IMAGERY: pictures express the story theme, facts and terror tale