The Early Years Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) created a literary legacy of tragedy and gloom that mirrored the actual events of his life. Orphaned at the age of two, young Edgar was taken in by friends of his mother, John and Fanny Allan, although Edgar was never officially adopted by them. The Allans moved to London, where Edgar began his formal education, but returned to Richmond, Virginia after five years. When he was of age, Edgar joined the Army and entered West Point Academy. While he was there, Fanny Allan died and his relationship with his foster father deteriorated, until John Allan ceased all contact with Edgar. Soon afterward, he was dismissed from the Army for several counts of insubordination. Once the stability of his young life had been torn apart, Poe decided to follow his lifelong passion and pursue a career as a professional writer. Though several of Poe's early works were published, none of them garnered him much recognition in the literary world. In 1845, Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published in the New York newspaper The Evening Mirror. The poem was hailed by critics as a work of genius, earning Poe a respected reputation as a serious writer. In Poe's fictional world, cats could incite a man to unfathomable loathing and violence, vengeful dwarves could literally make monkeys out of kings, and the dead rarely if ever stayed dead. "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which the imagined beating of a murder victim's heart unnerves the murderer enough to make him confess his crime, is perhaps the definitive tale of psychosis and guilty conscience. There is no more memorable study of icy, calculated revenge than "The Cask of Amontillado," in which a character is bricked up alive in a wine cellar. And the eerie, fable-like "The Masque of the Red Death" is probably the quintessential horror story; in it, a rich, haughty prince's masquerade ball in a time of plague is not immune from the menace of the Red Death, for it arrives as the ultimate uninvited guest. While he pioneered the depiction of horror and madness, he also originated the detective story, in which heightened powers of reason and deduction solve bewildering mysteries. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget" were the first examples of the 'story of ratiocination,' and their influence can be felt even in modern day crime novels and police procedurals. Reason and logical analysis were key pillars of Poe's literary life. His voluminous essays and book reviews established his name as an astute, and often harsh critic. He wrote over a dozen articles on cryptography, often challenging readers to send him ciphers which he would then easily crack. In his tale "The Gold Bug," Poe includes a crash-course on code breaking as he describes how the main characters use logic to decipher the directions to a buried pirate treasure. However, while Poe's literary career was on the rise, his personal life was disintegrating into embarrassing chaos and irrationality.
Poe's Decline Despite gaining much critical and popular acclaim, the economic fragility of the magazine business forced Poe to latch onto whatever periodical would have him. He took up residence in first Baltimore, then Philadelphia, then New York, wherever he could find promising work. But his often serious problem with alcohol combined with his innate combativeness as a critic and employee only succeeded in alienating one editor after another. His vicious critical attacks upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other prominent writers of the time outraged the literati. Wherever Poe went, he made enemies and created hard feelings. The spitefulness of his literary demeanor seems inextricably linked to the increasing desperation of his personal situation. He was always in need of money, not only for his sake but also for the sake of his young wife, Virginia, who was dying of tuberculosis. His first cousin on his father's side, Virginia Clemm married Poe when she was only thirteen. He found her childlike innocence and beauty enchanting, and she in turn was devoted to him; their relationship seemed more like that of brother and sister than husband and wife. As his professional life grew more perilous, Virginia became more and more his only source of joy. In a letter to her, he writes, "You are my greatest and only stimulus now, to battle with this uncongenial, unsatisfactory and ungrateful life." On January 30, 1847, that stimulus was removed for good. Virginia was only twenty-five when she died. Poe had lived with the fact of her inevitable death for years, and it haunts his work. The Red Death is a thinly veiled tuberculosis scourge. In "The Oblong Box," a grieving artist lashes himself to the coffin of his dead wife as the ship carrying them both is wrecked by a storm. And despite his claims to the contrary, "The Raven" can be seen as a rehearsal of his own forthcoming grief.
We use Conditional tenses to talk about hypothetic situations in the future, in the past, and to talk about events that would have happened.
a. If we were to be hit by an iceberg, we would die.
b If my cat were to eat a mouse, it would be a predator.
c If I were never to go in the sun, I would be extremely pale.
Explanation:
Conditional tenses communicate hypothetical situations in the past, theories about what might have happened, what happens concerning facts that are always true, and events with a low probability to occur in the future.
The sentences in this exercise are using conditionals to talk about situations in the present or future that probably will not happen.
We use:
the word if + the subject + were to,.... + subject + would + verb in the infinitive....
In formal writing, we can use the subjects he, she, and it with the auxiliary were instead of was and then the verb in the infinitive. For example, If he were to fail his test, he would be sad.
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Out of the listed words, the one that fits the given definition is <em>hesitant.</em> Someone who is hesitant will not instantly do or say something. They will think about it thoroughly, or possibly even overthink due to their fear, indecision, or unwillingness. For example, someone may be hesitant to change their job, because a new job always comes with uncertainties. People always prefer to stay in their comfort zone.
The Canterbury Tales is a cluster of 24 tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer that exceeds 17,000 lines. The Tales is an incomplete work of Chaucer.
The characters of the Tales is a perfectly painted by Chaucer through words.
<u>The statement which is true about the Tales is that the diverse characters of the Tales are unlike the heroes from epics instead the characters are mixture from all walks of social class. They include the Parson, from higher social class to the Plowman from labor class; the Wife of Bath, a needlewoman; the Knight, etc.</u>
I think that it is wrong that People still discriminate between skin color, because, Everyone in the world is the same and have the same feelings. For example George Floyd he was a gentle giant according to the people who knew him and was innocent. Also fun fact this has never happened to a White person (PLZ 100 points)
