Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840); I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees - with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium - the bitter lapse into everyday life - the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it - I paused to think - what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? Young Edgar traveled with the Allans to England in 1815 and attended school in Chelsea.
Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe Creepy Edgar Allan Poe. Can you think of a name more synonymous with spine-tingling macabre literature? A master craftsman of prose and poetry alike, Poe dwells in that dark corner of our literary consciousness, along some creaky corridor laden with dust and cobwebs. Even more than a century on, reading Poe still feels like walking a razor’s edge between grim amusement and irrevocable madness. Here is a list of ten of Poe’s best-known tales and poems. Hop-Frog published 1849 A dwarfish court jester serves as the titular character of this fiendish revenge tale. The Facts in the Case of M. published 1845 In the mid-19th Century, the pseudo-science of mesmerism was all the rage in the salons of America’s bourgeoise, and Poe made it the central theme of this gruesome short story. The Black Cat published 1843 The narrator and his wife own several pets. The Murders in the Rue Morgue published 1841 C. The Cask of Amontillado published 1846 The Masque of the Red Death published 1842 published 1839
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF POEMS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE: The Raven, Alone, Annabel Lee, The Bells, Eldorado, Ulalume and more Poe, a great 19th-century American author, was born on Jan 19, 1809, in Boston, Mass. Both his parents died when Poe was two years old, and he was taken into the home of John Allan, a wealthy tobacco exporter of Richmond, Va. Although Poe was never legally adopted, he used his foster father's name as his middle name. After several years in a Richmod academy, Poe was sent to the University of Virginia. After a year, John Allan refused to give him more money, possibly because of Poe's losses at gambling. Poe then had to leave the university. In 1827 he published, in Boston, Tamerlane and Other Poems. Poe then began to write stories for magazines. Poe, however, soon lost his job with the magazine because of his drinking. In 1840, Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, a two-volume set of his stories. The long illness of Virginia Poe and her death in 1847 almost wrecked Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Eerie Richard Parker Coincidence Even Edgar Allan Poe, master of eerie twists and turns, would have been mystified by this mind-boggling coincidence created in part by one of his stories. But let's start from the beginning. In 1838, Poe's only novel was published - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket . Partway through the book, the crew of a ship called Grampus finds themselves with a busted boat and no food or water. They manage to catch a tortoise and strip off its shell, but eventually, in order to survive, the crew draws straws to figure out which of them will be sacrificed to provide meat for everyone else. A creative story - Poe actually called it "very silly" - but here comes the real twist. The yacht wasn't really made for trips around the world, so it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone when it sank in a storm. One man - a 17-year-old named Richard Parker - fell overboard and then made the mistake of drinking seawater to attempt to quench his thirst.
Thinking the Way Animals Do By Temple Grandin, Ph.D. Department of Animal Science Colorado State University Western Horseman, Nov. 1997, pp.140-145 (Updated January 2015) Temple Grandin is an assistant professor of animal science at Colorado State University. As a person with autism, it is easy for me to understand how animals think because my thinking processes are like an animal's. I have no language-based thoughts at all. Most people use a combination of both verbal and visual skills. A radio station person I talked to once said that she had no pictures at all in her mind. Associative Thinking A horse trainer once said to me, "Animals don't think, they just make associations." Animals also tend to make place-specific associations. Years ago a scientist named N. Fear Is the Main Emotion Fear is the main emotion in autism and it is also the main emotion in prey animals such as horses and cattle. Both animals and people with autism are also fearful of high-pitched noises. Fear-based behaviors are complex. References
Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS - The Black Cat | English Shared ANSWER KEY: SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS - The Black Cat the first few paragraphs, the narrator gives us some background information about himself. What does he most stress? He stresses that he is not mad, that he is a common, ordinary, mild-mannered individual capable of reason. 2. Pluto is the narrator's cat. 3. At first, they are very close; the narrator is very fond of the cat. 4. He cut the cat's eye out. 5. He hanged the cat by a rope from a tree and killed it. 6. His house burned down leaving only one wall with a figure of a cat with a rope around its neck. 7. The second cat looked very much like Pluto except it had a white mark on its neck. 8. At first the narrator liked it and was kind to it, but he grew to dislike it and eventually hated it. 9. He had some white on his neck/breast area. 10. He just about tripped over the cat and was ready to kill it with an axe when his wife grabbed his arm and stopped him. 11. He bricked her up in a false chimney wall. 12. The police arrived. 13.
Poe: About the Man Poe: About the Man Who was Edgar Allan Poe? He was an antebellum Virginian, a journalist, a performer, an amateur scientist, and, as the son of an actress, a social outcast. These factors shaped both the man and the literature he produced. The result was the birth of American Literature. "I am a Virginian." In calling himself a Virginian, Poe identified himself with the state in which he had been reared, educated, and begun his career in journalism. When the actress Eliza Poe died in Richmond in 1811, she had three young children. Poe grew up accustomed to the fine furnishings with which the Allans decorated their homes. Insurance Declaration for Moldavia. "And this maiden she lived with no other thought … Than to love and be loved by me." "To Zante". 6 November 1840. Poe's first fiancée, Elmira Royster Shelton, inspired the poem "To Zante." Elmira Shelton. Poe's first and last fiancée, Elmira Royster Shelton, is pictured here in about 1850, when she was about forty years old. Tales.
Synchronicité Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. « Le voilà, votre scarabée », dit Jung à sa patiente en lui tendant un insecte apparu alors qu'elle racontait son rêve d'un scarabée d'or. La notion de synchronicité se distingue clairement de ces notions cependant. Sur le plan de l'expérience, la rencontre avec un événement synchronistique, à la différence de la rencontre avec un archétype ou une autre manifestation de l'inconscient collectif, a un tel degré de signifiance pour la personne, mais surtout apparaît d'une manière si fortuite et choquante pour le sens commun (malgré le sens qu'il revêt, ou à cause du sens qu'il revêt, pourrait-on tout autant dire), que la personne s'en trouve transformée. Sur le plan théorique, les synchronicités (si du moins on en accepte l'existence) remplissent un tel rôle. Définition, classification, exemple, analyse de la synchronicité[modifier | modifier le code] Jung la définit ainsi : - a) acausalité : l'événement ne s'explique pas par la causalité
Jabberwocky "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Trees for Life - Mythology and Folklore of the Raven A distinct black shape, tumbling in the updrafts of a mountain crag - a raven at play. The 'gronking' call of a raven is one of the most evocative sounds of Britain's uplands. The raven is probably the world's most intelligent and playful bird. In the world of myth, it is a bird of paradox, and something of a dark clown. Its association with playful intelligence is perhaps exceeded by its image as a bird of death. Its harsh call, and its presence in remote wild places and at scenes of death, has earned it a reputation as a bird of ill-omen. An old Scottish name for the raven is 'corbie', which is thought to have been derived from the Latin 'corvus'. This large crow appears again and again in Celtic lore. Arthur, another legendary guardian of Britain, is also associated with ravens. The Celts were a warlike people, and the presence of ravens on the battlefield would have been very familiar to them. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have observed the keen intelligence of this bird.
Discussion Questions for The Black Cat Discussion Questions for The Black Cat 1. Discuss the significance of the following: “There is something unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of man.” The significance of this statement is describing that a dog will always love you in spite of how you treat it. A dogs love is forever. 2. The significance of the cat’s name is that it represents the planet Pluto. 3. He was able to restrain himself by killing other animals and his wife first. 4. He eventually mistreated the cat because the cat bit him and he just couldn’t restrain himself any longer. 5. In the beginning he had a feeling of “why did I kill the cat” but he didn’t mind killing it. 6. The narrator defines perverseness by describing Edgar Allan Poe as a cranky person. 7. He killed everything that loved him and the cat loved him.
The Fall of the House of Usher | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe | Edgar Allan Poe During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks. Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet I really knew little of my friend. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression.