Poes writings compared Annabel Lee and The Raven
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Poe was a very intelligent, talented, and sensitive (perhaps overly sensitive) writer who elevated short stories to new levels and made the macabre truly popular for perhaps the first time in history. He took readers into the great maze of the mind where nightmares dwell, lying dormant until our defenses are down and they can spring upon us to shake us to our very core. Yet, more than that, he wrote of pain and sadness, injecting a sad tone within the fabric of his work that blended wit the macabre aspects to create an art for that is truly unique. No other writer has ever equaled that essence of melancholy blended with the macabre.
This quote in print marked the end of a tragic life: "Edgar Allen Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England, and in several of the states of Continental Europe; but he had few or no friends; and the regrets for his death will be suggested principally by the consideration that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars" (Ingram 12).
Sadness was, perhaps, the essence of Edgar Allan Poe's personality. Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1800...