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This essay examines Edgar Allan Poe and two of his works, "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." The paper analyzes both of these works, then compares the two, noting that they both deal with death in different ways. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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likely to get it "quoth the Raven nevermore." This is how far Poe has come into all of our consciences, even more than a century after his death.
However, there is more to Poe, as we shall see, than his story about a supernatural bird -- and even some of his critics
doubt that there was anything wrong with the bird, but rather, the narrator was having a bad day, and hallucinated the fact that the bird talked. In this paper, we
will examine a brief history of Poe and analyze his two best-known works, "The Raven" (a poem) and "The Tell-Tale Heart" (a short story). A Poe history
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, to David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe (Poe Chronology). Poe was not to have
his mothers love for long, however, as Elizabeth died in 1811 of unknown causes, while father David succumbed to death just a few days later (Poe Chronology). Its been said
by many analysts of Poe that his romantic gloominess comes from the loss of both his parents during his childhood, but that is speculation. The family, consisting of Poe, his
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister, in the meantime, was taken in by another
Richmond family, while his brother remained in Baltimore with his grandparents (Poe Chronology). Poes education through the years was nothing remarkable - he did attend a local school, and then
ended up at the boarding school of the Misses Dubourg before moving on to the Manor House School, both of which were located in London (Poe Chronology). Poe eventually returned
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