Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven” “Annabel Lee”

1. American Gothic Edgar Allan Poe“The Raven”“Annabel Lee” American Literature I Luciano Cabral www.uerjundergradslit.wordpress.com

2. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) • Born in 1809, in Boston • 2 year old, David Poe, his father, disappear. Then, Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, his mother, dies. • Moves in to a foster family: John and Frances Valentine Allan, in 1815. • Enters University of Virginia in 1826. • Publishes Tamerlane and other Poems in 1827. • Wins a literary prize of $5o for his short story MS. Found in a Bottle, in1833. • Works as editor for many magazines in different US cities. • Marries Virginia Clemm in 1836, who dies 11 years later. • Publishes “The Raven” in The New York Evening Mirror, and gets famous. • Dies in 1849, after coma for excessive alcohol consumption.

4. About “The Raven” (1845) • What’s the Poem about? • Metrical Form: Octameter, Heptameter, Tetrameter • “what originality the ‘Raven’ has, is in their [the lines’] combination into stanza; nothing even remotely approaching this combination has ever been attempted.”

5. “The Raven” (1845)

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