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A 5 page paper which analyzes the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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into the human psyche and uncovering the mental weaknesses of humanity. His work was very much a psychological study of humanity and it was, and is, frightening and disturbing. His
novels, poems, and short stories have served to truly influence many writers to come, one more recent writer being Joyce Carol Oates who had the ability to write stories with
incredibly powerful and subtle illustrations of the human psyche. The following paper analyzes Poe and his work as it involves his particular time in history. Edgar Allen Poe
Poe was born in 1809 and died in 1849 and as such was alive in a very powerful, yet still primitive, time in the United States. The nation was still
relatively new and it possessed many different ideals, one of which involved Jacksonian culture. One author notes, that Poe possessed "affinities with mainstream America. He was culturally informed, rather than
isolated, reclusive, and warped" and as such was an individual who was learned and part of the mainstream culture at the time (Goldhurst). In terms of literature many often
equate him with the gothic style, which is very evident in his novel "The Fall of the House of Usher." But, at the same time he can also, as Goldhurst
indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is in the work of Poe one can perhaps
see beyond the psychological and understand that during his time death was a far more common reality in every day life than it is today. Goldhurst states, "It is important
to establish the fact that death literature was common in Poes day, owing to the high mortality rate among the young and middle-class citizens." Death was perhaps the most powerful
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