Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe

• The character status
  • American poet, novelist, and literary critic of the 19th century.
  • He was an important member of the American Romantic movement.
• Life
  • On January 1,1809,Edgar Allan POE was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • In 1831,for reasons that are still not completely clear. The episode marked the final break between Poe and the Allans.
  • In 1833,the Southern novelist John Pendleton Kennedy helped him get a job as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.
  • In 1835, Edgar finally got a job as an editor of a newspaper.
  • In 1837-1845,Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, appeared in 1840. "The Raven" was published in 1845 as the title poem of a collection.
  • in1847.his wife died 10 days after his birthday.
  • On October 7. 1849,he died in Baltimore,many of the circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery.
• Works
  • Poetry
    • To Helen (致海伦)
      • The poem is famous for a number of things, for example, its rhythm, varied line lengths,the metaphor of a travel on the sea, and the frequently quoted lines, "To the Glory that was Greece /And the grandeur that was Rome."
      • The poem, published in 1845, refers to the poetess Sarah Helen Whitman, whom poet proposed to marry that year.
    • To One in Paradise(致乐园中的一位）
    • The Sleeper(睡美人)
    • The Valley of Unrest(不安的山谷)
    • The City in the Sea(海中之城)
    • Silence, a Sonnet(十四行诗)——静
    • The Raven(乌鸦)
      • A young man mourming the passing of Lenore.
      • The bird that appears at the beginning of the poem repeats a word (nothing more永不复还),which turmns the man's grief into madness.
      • On the verge of a mental collapse the young man outpours his sorrow to the bird when he is half asleep and half awake.
  • Gothic Story
    • The Masque of the Red Death(红死病的假面舞会)
    • The Fall of the House of Usher(厄舍古厦的倒塌)
    • The Angel of the Odd(奇怪天使)
    • The Devil in the Belfry(钟楼魔影)
    • The Oval Portrait(椭圆形画像)
    • The Man That Was Used Up(被用光的人)
    • King Pest(瘟疫王）
  • Detective Story
    • Thou Art the Man(你就是凶手）
    • The Purloined Letter(被窃之信)
    • The Mystery of Marie Roget(玛丽·罗杰疑案)
    • The Murders in the Rue Morgue(莫格街谋杀案)
    • The Gold-Bug(金甲虫)
    • The Oblong Box(长方形箱子)
• Writing characteristic
  • subject
    • Edgar Allan POE's horror novels are characterized by romanticism. Throughout Edgar Allan POE's horror novels, most of his themes "reveal the d ark side of human consciousness and subconscious", which is obviously different from other romantic writers of his time.
    • With the help of strange and scary story plots, he expresses the crisis of human nature through rhetorical means such as exaggeration, metapho r and symbol, arousing readers' strong interest in reading, shocking the mind and making people think deeply.
    • Allan POE's creative principle is his "effect theory", which determines his choice of"death" as the theme of his literary creation.
  • The gothic style
    • Most of POE's novels have elements of the Gothic tradition. Its characteristics mainly highlight the details of life and the magic and fantasy of the narrative plot reflected in the narrative of the novel, which does not lose the sense of reality. It is worth mentioning that Edgar Allan POE's Got hic novels are also of great practical significance. They reflect the alienated psychological states of people in the current society: loneliness, fear,anxiety, annoyance, despair and so on.
  • Mystery novels
    • Allan POE wrote sixty or seventy short stories in his life. Although he wrote only four or five mystery novels, he is universally recognized as "the originator of mystery novels". "The Murder in the Rue Morgue","The Mystery of Mary Roger","The Stolen Letter" and "The Golden Bug" are reg arded as the first novels of this kind, and have a great influence on later generations.
• Character influence
  • Character influence
    • 1.His Gothic novels broke the boundary between serious novels and popular novels to a certain extent and realized spiritual communication with readers in a broader aesthetic space.
    • 2.Edgar Allan POE's successful attempt to combine Gothic stories with detective speculation greatly influenced future generations of writers.
  • Historical position
    • (1)He is one of the most famous American Poets,fictionists and literature critics.
    • (2) He is one of the forefathers of detective story,science fiction, horror fiction,and the master of short Gothic story.
    • (3)He have profound influence on many writers such as Conan Doyle(柯南.道尔). Edogawa Rampo(江户乱步) and so on.
    • (4) Edgar Allan Poe(埃德加.爱伦坡)share the reputation with Ann Bruce bulls(安布鲁斯·布尔斯)and Howard Phillips Lovecraft(洛夫克拉夫特)as the m Character influence ost famous three horror fictionists.
  • Theory of poetry
    • 1.His poetic theories are remarkable in their clarity.
    • 2.The poem should be short, readable at one sitting (or as long as "The Raven").
    • 3.Its chief aim is beauty, namely, to produce a feeling of beauty in the reader, to pure one's soul.
    • 4.Melancholy / melankali/ is the most legitimate /:djrtmat/of all the poetic tones.
    • 5.Poetry does not have to inculcate a moral.
    • 6.The artistry of the poem lies not in what is being said but in what way it is said. (form is superior to content)
    • 7.stresses musical quality of verse and defines true poetry asrhythmical/'nǒmrk(a)/ creation of beauty."
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