EDGAR ALLAN POE'S LIFE TO DEATH TALE

IN THE BEGINNING

• On January 19, 1809 the most horrific poet was born.
• Poes Mother and Father were both professional actors and actresses. Yet when Poe was two, his Father being a raging alcoholic, left the family.

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• Only a year had passed since Edgar's father had left them when his mother was diagnosed and died from Tuberculosis.
• Leaving Poe as an orphan at the age of three. Poes life was already designed to be a disaster.

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• Poe was later taken in by Francis Allen and John Allen. Though they did not adopt him, Poe grew attached to Francis but as his mother did she had died of tuberculosis. As Poe grew older he had already lived through agony. A life in which he was only a curse losing all he loved.

THE TELL-TALE HEART

• In this story a young caretaker that is a mad man explains how sane he is yet describes how he murders the old man.
• "He had the eye of a vulture" this brought the man to madness for an obsession of this eye. Having him wait a week before murdering the old man.

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• In the tale he hides the body and bluffs to the police. Madness is nothing you can hide, His sanity snapped as he blurted he had done the deed of killing the old man. Theories have that the "The Tell-Tale Heart" was actually based off of Poe wanting to kill the father figures in his life.
• But those are only theories.

ALONE

• A short Poem by Poe about the devastations in his life.
• Everyone he was close to passed away, Even his Wife Virgina, who was also his first cousin (ew)
• Generally about how alone he is and how he is a curse with Devils watching over instead of angels in the heavens. This poem is very understandable since Poe grew with a life we all would know as a nightmare.
• Making him the most dreadful, realistily terrifying man/poet to walk the earth.

HOW HIS WORK IMPACTED HIM

• Poe was a horrifying genius comparing fears and twisting them with reality. Poes tragic life lead to multiple theories of things he would do and have related to him. Having his work whirl a bit in with his life

WORK CITED

• "Poe's Life." Poe's Life. Web. 27 Oct. 2015
• Discovery Education, (2003). Great Books: Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. [Full Video]. Available from http:/www.discoveryeducation.com/
• Beers, G. Kylene. Collection. Orlando, Fla: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Print