1. Edgar Allen Poe Created by: Najah Mubashira

2. QUICK FACTS  January 19, 1809  October 7, 1849  Issues  Alcoholic  Depressed  Drug Addict  Parents died early  Lived in poverty  No one knows exactly how he died Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition2

3. BIOGRAPHY  Father deserted him at 1 year old  Mother died  John Allan took Poe into his home  Allan did not allow Poe to go to college  Joined the army  Left for Baltimore  Lived in Poverty Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition3

4. BIOGRAPHY  Created his reputation at the Messenger  Married Virginia Clemm, 14  Free-lance writer in New York  Lost his job at Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine  Lived in poverty with sick wife  Met President Tyler in drunken state Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition4

5. BIOGRAPHY  Moved to NYC to work for the Sunday Times  Published The Raven  Considered to have “made it”  Wife dies and Poe has multiple affairs  Dies mysteriously  Alcoholism  Rabies  Fell in a gutter  Mental illness Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition5

6. PEOPLE HE HATED  John Allan  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Transcendentalists Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition6

7. POETIC INFLUENCES  Nathaniel Hawthorne  Poverty  Failed Loves Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition7

8. SUBJECT MATTER  Gothic Genre  Emotional/Sentimental  Personal experiences  Gruesome fantasies  Melancholy Love  Death Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition8

9. COMMON LITERARY ELEMENTS USED  Tone: Horror  Disturbing Theme  Imagery  Visual  Tactile  Kinesthetic  Symbolism  First Person Point of View  Satire  Irony Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition9

10. LEGACY  First Major American Critic  Set a basis for poetic art  Modern short story  Set the Gothic trend  Aldous Huxley and Ralph Waldo Emerson Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition10

11. SOURCES  Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson. Perrine's Sound and Sense An Introduction to Poetry. 12th ed. N.p.: Heinle, 2007. Print.  Davidson, Edward H. Poe, A Critical Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1969. Print.  Hutchisson, James M. Poe. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2005. Print.  Poe, Edgar Allan., and Andrew Lang. Poe's Poems and Essays. London [u.a.: Everyman's Library [u.a., 1964. Print.  Poe, Edgar Allan, and Philip Pullman. The Raven and Other Poems. New York, NY: Scholastic, 2000. Print.  Roberts, James L., Ph.D. Cliff Notes on Poe's Short Stories. Lincoln, Nebraska: Cliff Notes, 1999. Print.  Spielman, Adam. A photo of Edgar Allan Poe taken by taken by Edwin H. Manchester. Digital image. My Life In Books. Blogspot.com, 7 Mar. 2012. Web. 19 May 2013.. Mubashira - AP Literature and Composition11