what is Edgar's technic of writting im most of what he wrote and what would be the conclucion of it.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2002

Answers

Poe used many paradoxes in his works.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2002

thank you, but i need a term paper on his technic, if you know anything else or if you know where to find it please let me know.im getting out of time. thank you

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2002

check this website, www.freeessays.cc/db/43/sxg274.shtml, i amd doing a project on Poe as well, and looking for his style in writing so if u have anything, consider this a swap

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2002

To say that we admire Mr. Poe's style, abstractly considered, is more than we can say and speak truly; neither can we perceive any particular beneficial tendency that is likely to flow from his writings. This, of course, is a mere matter of opinion, and we may differ, in saying so, from many. At the same time, the possession of high powers of invention and imagination--of genius--is undoubtedly his. His productions are, many of them, in Literature, somewhat like Martin's in the Fine Arts. His serious sketches all bear the marks of bold, fertile genius. There is the dark cloud hanging over all-- there are the dim, misty, undefined shapes in the back-ground. But amid all these arise huge and magnificent columns, flashing lamps, rich banquetting vessels, gleaming tiaras, and sweet, expressive faces.

-- Anonymous, November 24, 2002

Edgar Allan Poe started detective fiction. He was the first person to ever write detective fiction. He had a free style way of writing. In his detective novels he used a technique called ratiocination. That means that he used reasoning instead intuition. The way that Poe writes is in his stories if you read them and pay close attention to the plot and narration they are much easier to understand.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2003

sir or sirs whomever it may regard santa clause and edgar alan poe are privately secretly engaged and i would like to inform you of edgar's personal defects he is dead however through the useage of black magistrate i have concieved a child and thereof will be born the son of edgar and he will be a miniclone and will hump my laser and i will say "no miniedgar do not hump the laser" and he will try to eat my BLACK CAT mr whiskers and i will say "no miniedgar do not eat mr whiskers we pet mr whiskers" thank you i appreciate your time and effort wasted on me because i am actually a large 40 yr old male with nothing better to do with my time than to pull stupid pranks like this have a nice day

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2003

the answer to my prayers is edgar allan poe he will rise up and vanquish the unworthy filthy humans who regard this meek planet as their home he will strike with a vengeance of a plague of tuberculosis for the end is near grab your children and flee fast and swift disregard your mastubatory rituals and sexual misconducts do not spank the monkey, flog the dolphin, beat your meat, or any thereof otherwise, if you are immune to tuberculosis then i suggest eating a nice healthy apple pie with vanilla ice cream however if you are not immune then you should run quickly though you are safe nowhere for edgar knows and sees all he is among us run for your lives AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2003

Poe is writer who doesn't really have clue what he is talking about. He just copied all english writers u know americans they are a set of dumb bastards

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2003

i thinkhis technicof writing is free verse. He speaks threw his heart. He uses his sences to write. Unlike other writers that just imagine..He writes his feelings on paper..

-- Anonymous, April 12, 2003

as far as i read his work " the pit and the pendulum "i think that poe is a specific writer in horror where he really succeded in introducing words expressing death and blood in a strange way

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003

Than you for the Free verse answer I needed confirmation

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2003

edgar uses a very satiric humor, he is very deceptive in all his writing, he is the first writer to associate the gothic tale with such a high degree of symbolism

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2003

I have read some of the answers and among them there is one criticising Poe's technics of writing. I will just put a question to that "critic": Has that person ever read Poe's tales? Poe had an intuition for Physics and Cosmology and her propositions were proved after many years. All those thoughts that tortured him as they should worry any thinker can be clearly read in his writings. Read Eureka and assimilate Poe's theories about the universe with: "The cask of Amontillado" "The pit and the pendulum" and "The whirpool". Pay special attention to his theory about the origin of the universe, the Big-Bang, the Big-Crunch and the renaissance of the universe. Don't you think that descending into the whirpool can be compared with the passage to another universe when the black bottom is seen while circling around like the spiralling worms he mentioned in Eureka. And isn't it a newly born person that who survived what was supposed to be a certain death (I mean: being trapped into the Maelstrom)? Can you connect his theory to "The Pit and the pendulum"? Going round and round the dark pit only to find that if the main character had not tripped over he could have fallen into the deep black hole that had been set by the Inquisition to execute him. After having escaped death for the second time when the sharp blade of the pendulum was nearly cutting his flesh, he faced the terrible situation of watching the walls of his cell moving, enclosing him, when suddenly a white light meant his salvation. The Inquisition had been defeated. That is exactly the same idea considered in "The whirpool". Facing death, the Big- Crunch, to get "originated" again. The pendulum symbolises Time, clearly paced by the swinging of the rod, Time unavoidable. Poe in Eureka wrote about the hope he had to believe that the plot of God, the universe, that finite cluster containing other clusters, would undergo these stages of Big-Bangs and Big-Crunches, again and again, quoting him "for ever...for ever...for ever..." In "The cask of Amontillado", there is no salvation to the wrong doer, but Montresor appears as th judge putting and end to the one thousand evil deeds os Fortunato. Fortunato derives from fortune, Poe states that the universe, as a plot from God, cannot admit evil things, negative ones, the universe is positive and everything in it has been programmed. Montresor takes Fortunato to the depths of his palace, they go down, down, into the black caves where the remains of his ancestors are piled up: mankind awaiting in the darkness, till, following the moto of the Montresor's coat of arms "Nobody will assail me without punishment", he decides on the death of Fortunato, slowly building a wall to entombe him. The narrator states at the end of the tale that nobody has ever interrupted the peace of Fortunato, and we, readers, understand that the "judge" is still there watching. Can you elict a religious bias in the story? The eternal battle between the good and the bad, trimphing the Good. Don't you see the same sequence of darkness and light in this last tale, too? Well, Nicole, I hope you'll get some idea.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2003

To Ms. Pita---thanks for an enlightening view, the kind of thing I come to Q&A for. I have yet to finish reading "Eureka," but your answer inspires me to have another go at it.

-- Anonymous, May 16, 2003

though many people frown on his work he really is a wonder i mean he dedicated his life to an emotion that people hope they never feel and gives all of us what terror and mystery really is and the scary part is that in some weird way he lived all the stories firsthand that all of these actions were so real to him he knew exactly what to write and is not just telling a short story but reccounting an actual event

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2003

Mr. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer ahead of his time. He applied current day grammar theory with scientific reasoning. Yet many forget that as all men at that time sought out a classical training. Hebrew and Greek were among French and Latin that was taught to Poe. He could put many seminar trained pastors to shame with his knowledge of the bible, not simply with the vulgar forms that where in latin and english. After the death of his very young wife, his poetry ceased to concentrate on anything else other than what happens to loved ones after they die. Was there justice in the world, or the next? Was there a God who was taking care of his dear departed soul mate? You may wish to leave religion out of your own lives, but Poe found he could not, must not, if he was ever to have peace of mind that if souls exist, surely someone watched over them. If he had lived much longer, I believe this fear in him would have grown more encompassing of his themes. There is a worse fate that dying and becoming nothing, dying and living an existence in a phantom realm. Poe meeted out justice and he forged a new belief system in order to ease his mind. When shall I see Lenore? Nevermore? Nay, Nay, do not let it be nevermore.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2003

He was a free, writing author, he had such as diverse impact in the modern literature. I like his way of writing because he write fiction.

-- Anonymous, June 19, 2003

The very fact that the original question set up for debate on this site is SPELLED INCORECTLY (as good an idea as this is), concerns me.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2003

oops i mean correctly (my bad)

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2003

edgar alan poe is a crazy man so his writing style is kind of between his own feeling and his imagination.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 2003

Edgar Alan Poe is famous for his technic in his stories by not using flashback but chronological order to create suspense and keep the audience moving. Wanting to know what will happen next. This way of writing is very different can analize in many aspect. To say one way or another is just wrong. This work and talent are beautiful. There are alot of meaning and analizing to his wrong. There is no wrong answer.

-- Anonymous, October 30, 2003

i think he beats off than writs abouyt what he was thinking

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2003

Philosophically, Poe was the type of writer, like many of the great writers, who challenged the set poetic verse of the time. His free verse, liberal way of writing is like that of Walt Wittman(forgive my spelling) exept not of the same genre. Poe wrote of love and combined it with a theme of darkenss which is understandable givin the harshness of losing so many loves. Despite the fact that Poe did the aforementioned and Wittman a whole different genre of the working class Americans(i.e. I Hear America Singing) and historical poetry (Midnight Ride of Paul Revere)he, like Wittman, Dickinson, and other great writers challenged the "right" way of writing and the critics of the time to create his own free verse gothic love type poetry in which he spoke of lying in his love's tomb, killing his love(some belive that The Raven suggests this), being burried alive--somthing that happened alot in the 19th Century since they couldn't really tell if you were dead and many people had a pulse so weak that it appeared that they were dead--and somthing Poe feared. If you were to look at The Raven--one of his best, in my opinion--then you will se he doesn't use a set ryming pattern such as ABBA or ABA but rather his own. Sometimes ever other line will rhyme and somtimes every line will rhyme. The same can be said in Annabell Lee(probaly my faviorte because of the rythm and alliteration) in which he doesn't use the set pattern that poets "should" of used. Because of the aforementioned he, like all great minds it seems, was not supported by critics untill after he died. We must need understand the hell Poe endured from his childhood to the losing of many loves. If one is to think that Poe's poetry is dark and "psycho" then they are naive and ignorant to his life. And they are naive to the fact that death is not bad for as Patch Adams said, "Why do we fear death?" If you study the life of Poe then you will understand his poetry philosophically.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2003

suppie dude .i have no clue wat his technic is does anybody up in her hehe jk go to west briar ? anyways if ya do write back 2 me @ ??????? thanks yall! and i want 2 say hi to charles hoo (forget the spelling!) who keeps calling me page snell its really annoying! bi

-- Anonymous, November 11, 2003

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM EDGAR IS SICK MAN WHO MARRIED HIS CUSIN. DON"T READ IT IS THE ANTICRIST

-- Anonymous, February 24, 2004

the guy that wrote that above me, is soooooooo rite, you gotta believe it

-- Anonymous, February 24, 2004

He was guilty of depression, which greatly affected his work.

-- Anonymous, March 02, 2004

I won't entertain any of the above opinions on Poe, but to help Nicole find the answer to the question on what technique Poe used in his writing(s), I would suggest reading his seldom read essays. Read Poe's essays, "The Philosophy of Composition", "The Rationale of Verse", "The Poetic Principle", and Eureka. Eureka is widely believed to contain Poe's view on the universe and of humanity's role in it. A professor of mine suggests reading Eureka before reading any of Poe's work; it helps to clarify Poe's views. I am currently doing my masters thesis on Poe and, coincidentally, on Poe's narrative 'technique'--his rhetoric to be precise. Good luck.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2004

Poe is whack!

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2004

Yeah, he's crazy!

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2004

I third that!

Hi Poe.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2004

I have noticed that all of you people who criticize Edgar Allan Poe and his work give absolutely no reason to say why he was "insane" or that his writing is horrible. The only remotely close but not satisfiable answer I've heard is the comment about him marrying his cousin. To give an answer to that one, marrying a relative was not such a weird or, as you put it, "sick" thing back then as it may be today, so it would be wrong of you to compare the traditions and normalities of Poe's day to the traditions of today. Secondly, if I had never read Poe and had just read these comments, I would be a much more for the side of Poe's supporters because they have made an honest and reliable view of their opinions. On the other hand, the ones who criticize have simply said that he is horrible without any explanations to back up their beliefs. I challenge anyone who dislikes Poe's work to actually give a good reason for their hatred.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2004

I think you're asking people who may never have even truly read Poe's work to comment on why they think he's insane. For 'surface readers', Poe may certainly seem insane, but for those who study his work, we know Poe to be an intelligent--and quite sane--writer. I still know some adults who still think The Raven is simply about a "bird" and the Tell Tale Heart is simply about some guy who keeps hearing a heartbeat after he's already committed a murder. If that is all there is to Poe's work, then why read him at all? Might as well read today's headlines. But, Poe's work is much more deeply involved: psychologically, philosophically, socially, and even POLITICALLY. It's up to you to find sophisticated and well-read teachers to pave the way to Poe. Good luck on that one.

On the comment of Poe marrying his cousin, "Sis", as he affectionately referred to her,even then, marrying into the family was considered taboo. I've read criticisms that seem to indicate that he didn't have much support on it, but then no one bothered to stop him either. Keep in mind that Poe had terrible luck with women, having lost just about every woman he ever loved since childhood. It may not be too surprising for him to turn to a much younger girl to marry--even if it is a relative.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2004

Edgar allan poe was a brilliant person. he influenced many wrtiters to write their gothic and horror storis. his life was lonely and tragic and would sometimes put his life into his stories. he was never crazy nor weird. he was just himself. he is awesome and was a great writer.

-- Anonymous, May 31, 2004

What's wrong with marrying your cousin? Mansfield Park ends with cousins marrying why doesn't anyone think it's an immoral book?

سنی اسلام

-- Anonymous, June 02, 2004

poe is a wack job who is really depressed and insane. the only thing that could even possibly convince me that he is not insane is what he wrote in tell tale heart.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2004

poe is a wack job who is really depressed and insane! the only thing that could even possibly convince me that he is not insane is what he wrote in tell tale heart. no joke

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2004

im ull never kno and i forgot to say that he also maried is 13 year old cuz wen he was like 28 or sumtin

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2004

Poe writes mainly about Death and Insanity.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2004