1. Edgar ALLEN
POE
A TALENTED TORMENTED
WRITER
BY,
TRENT GARVIN

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--