Edgar Allen Poe

Who shaped Poe’s imagination?

His mother

What did people say about Poe’s mom?

She was the most beautiful person to ever live.1

Why did Poe’s grandparents leave England?

For money and to write plays

What did Poe’s mom do when she came to America?

She was a star being an actress

How did Poe’s mom and dad meet?

They were partners in an act

What was Poe’s birth name?

Edgar Poe

How did Poe’s dad die?

He was an alcoholic.

What famous play and part did Poe’s mom play?

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

What did she do with Edgar while she was performing?

Middle seat in the front row of the theater.

Why was this not a good ideea?

Because Poe was watching his mother kill herself in the act and then come back the next five minutes to take him to eat dinner.

What does Poe’s works contain more than any other writer?

Beautiful dead women

How did Poe find out about “real” death?

when he was 3 and a half years old her mother died from consumption

How did you know you had the disease, consumption

You would cough blood in a handkerchief and die a horrible death of drowning in your own blood.

When was Poe born?

1809

Who shared his birthday?

Abraham Lincoln

What was embroidered on a woman’s handkerchief in the early 1800’s? Why?

There was either a row of cherries, strawberries, or roses because they were all bright red to disguise if you had consumption or not.

What is the one image he uses more than any other writer?

The color red

What image could Poe never get out of his mind when his mom died?

Her mothers face as she died. In death she was far more beautiful in death.

Waht four images were infused in his mind because of his mother’s death?

Youth, Beauty, Women, and Death

Why did John Allan not want to adopt Edgar

Because he was the son of an actress.

Where did Poe attend School?

England

How did the kids at his school learn without books?

They used the gravestones in the cemetery for math and dig a hole for the grave as Phys. Ed.

Why did Poe fall in love with Richard’s mother?

Because she was beautiful and she looked like her mother.

What did Poe do to show his affection even after Richard’s mother death.

Every night after she died for a year he would walk around her tombstone

Why was Poe’s stepfather jealous?

Because her wife spent more time with Poe than himself.

What college did Poe attend?

University of Virginia

What was Poe’s “major” in college?

Alcohol and gambling.

What happens to Edgar after Francis Allan dies?

John Allan throws Poe out

What two things did Poe invent at the age of twenty?

The tale of terror and the short story

What must every short story do according to Poe?

Every line has to contribute to a single effect.

What two choices are wrong about Poe’s love for Virginia

She was 10 and a half years old and she was an adopted cousin.

How is Charles Dickens important in Poe’s life?

Charles Dickens was one of the most famous person and he gave inspiration to Poe to write “The Raven”

How much money did Poe make off of “The Raven?” Why?

$0, because he didn’t copywrite it in his magazine so everyone stole his idea.

Why did Poe never make it to New York?

When you take the train you had to switch to another trade but in the switch their was an election for a mayor who tricked him into drinking alcohol.

What was Poe’s last dying words?

“God have mercy on my soul”

how old was Poe when he died

40

The dates of Poe’s death

1809-1848

Stepparents of Edgar Poe(Allan’s)

Francis Allan and John Allan

Time period of William Shakespeare

1582 - 1616

“The Raven” - What time is it?

Midnight

“The Raven” - What was the guy doing?

Looking over books and falling asleep

“The Raven” - What did the guy hear at his door?

Someone knocking on his door.

“The Raven” - He is reading in hopes to forget what?

Lenore, because she died

“The Raven” - What excuse does he give for the knocking?

That it was the wind and nothing more

“The Raven” - What excuse does he give to the person at the door?

That he was sleeping, he was just a visitor

“The Raven” - What was in the hallway when he opened the door?

Darkness

“The Raven” - What did he whisper down the hall? And what was whispered back?

Leonore?

“The Raven” - Where else did he hear the knocking?

The window

“The Raven” - What came in the window?

A raven

“The Raven” - Where did the bird sit?

On Pallas on the bust.

“The Raven” - The narrator says that other friends have left him before. What does the bird respond?

Nevermore

“The Raven” - Where does he think the bird heard this word?

From the underworld from Pluto(Hades)

“The Raven” - When the narrator says', “She shall press, ah, nevermore!,” what does the narrator realize about Lenore?

That Lenore will never come back

“The Raven” - What is nepenthe?

A plant that is supposed to help you with grief.

“The Raven” - Why does he want to drink it?

To forget the grief of Lenore

“The Raven” - What does he want to do with the blam of Gilead?

It’s something that heals you cuts and he wants if or his heart to help his grief.

“The Raven” - When he asks if she is in heaven, what does the bird say?

“Nevermore” meaning she is in hell.

The narrator becomes angry at the raven. Where does he tell him to go?

Go back The Night’s Plutonian Shore(Hell/Hades place)

“The Raven” - Because the raven is still sitting on the door, what will happen to the narrator?

He can never be happy.