2. THE EARLY YEARS
BORN IN 1809 IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
HIS FATHER ABANDONED THE FAMILY AND
HIS MOTHER DIED OF TUBERCULOSIS
RAISED BY FOSTER PARENTS
STARTED WRITING POEMS AND AT AGE 16
HAD ENOUGH TO FILL A BOOK
3. EDUCATION
ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA WHERE
HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE DUE TO HEAVY
DEBT
ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AS HE CONTINUED TO
WRITE
AFTER HIS FOSTER MOTHER’S DEATH IN 1829, HE
BECAME A CADET IN THE US MILITARY
ACADEMY AT WESTPOINT AND WAS EXPELLED
FOR DELIBERATLEY MISBEHAVING
4. LITERARY CAREER
BEST KNOWN AS A LITERARY CRITIC
DURING HIS LIFETIME
TODAY IS WELL KNOWN FOR STORIES IN
THE GOTHIC TRADITION
FOUNDER OF THE SHORT STORY
FIRST TO WRITE DETECTIVE STORIES
POE THOUGHT HIS POEMS WERE HIS
GREATEST WORKS
5. LITERARY DEVICES USED
ALLITERATION- REPETITION OF THE INITIAL
CONSONANT
ASSONANCE- REPETITION OF SIMILAR VOWEL
SOUNDS
CLIMAX- THE TURNING POINT OF THE ACTION
IN THE PLOT OF A PLAY OR STORY
FORESHADOWING- HINT OF WHAT IS TO COME
IN THE ACTION OF A PLAY OR STORY
HYPERBOLE- A FIGURE OF SPEECH INVOLVING
EXAGGERATION
6. STRUGGLES/SETBACKS
FOSTER FATHER DIED AND LEFT HIM NOTHING
DISPUTES WITH EDITOR OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY
MESSENGER LED HIM TO RESIGN
BECAME EDITOR OF BURTON’S GENTLEMEN’S
MAGAZINE BUT WAS FIRED
MARRIED VIRGINIA CLEMM IN 1836 AND SHE DIED
IN 1842
DIED IN 1849 AFTER COLLAPSING ON A STREET IN
BALTIMORE
AFTER HIS DEATH A BIOGRAPHY WAS PUBLISHED
THAT ATTACKED HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND RUINED HIS
REPUTATION FOR YEARS.
7. CAUSE OF DEATH
THEORY WAS HE DIED OF HEART FAILURE
FROM CONSUMING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL
ANOTHER THEORY THAT HE DIED FROM
RABIES, AFTER A CARDIOLOGIST REVIEWED
HIS CASE
8. POE’S LEGACY
WORKS EXPLORED THE DARK SIDE OF
HUMAN NATURE
WORKS REFLECTED A LIFE OF PAIN AND
LOSS
TODAY HE IS RECOGNIZED AS A MASTER
OF POETRY AND SHORT STORIES
9. HIS FAMOUS WORKS: A
RECITATION- THE RAVEN
ONCE UPON THE MIDNIGHT DREARY, WHILE I
PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY, OVER MANY
A QUAINT AND CURIOUS VOLUME OF
FORGOTTEN LORE, WHILE I NODDED NEARLY
NAPPING, SUDDENLY THERE CAME A
TAPPING,AS ONE GENTLY RAPPING,
RAPPING AT MY CHAMBER DOOR.”TIS SOME
VISITOR”, I MUTTERED “TAPPING AT MY
CHAMBER DOOR-ONLY THIS AND NOTHING
MORE…..
10. HIS FAMOUS WORKS: ANNABEL
LEE- A RECITATION
IT WAS MANY AND MANY YEARS AGO , IN A
KINGDOM BY THE SEA,
THAT A MAIDEN THERE LOVED WHOM YOU MAY
KNOW BY THE NAME OF ANNABEL LEE;--
AND THIS MAIDEN SHE LIVED WITH NO OTHER
THOUGHT
THAN THE LOVE AND LOVED BY ME.
SHE WAS A CHILD AND I WAS A CHILD,
IN THIS KINGSOM BY THE SEA,
BUT WE LOVED WITH A LOVE THAT WAS MORE THAN
LOVE—
I AND MY ANNABEL LEE--