Assignment Paper No.10
Paper No.10
Name: Ravji Jalondhara
Roll No. 28
Enrollment No. 2069108420180024
Paper No. 10 (American Literature)
Assignment Topic: EdgarAllanPoe as a Short Story Writer
Batch No. 2017-19
Email Id: ravjijalandhara@gmail.com
Words: 1633
Submitted to: Department of English MKBU
About Edgar Allan Poe:
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Poe repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for Poe. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money.
Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time that his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with the anonymous collection Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. However, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and he ultimately parted ways with John Allan.
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
• Shorts Stories by Edgar Allan Poe:
"The Angel of the Odd" (1844) Comedy about being drunk
"The Balloon Hoax" (1844) Newspaper story about balloon travel
"Berenice" (1835) Horror story about teeth
"The Black Cat" (1845) Horror story about a cat
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) A story of revenge
"A Descent Into The Maelstr�m" (1845) Man vs. Nature, Adventure Story
"Eleonora" (1850) A love story
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) Talking with a dead man
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) An old house and its secrets
"The Gold Bug" (1843) A search for pirate treasure
"Hop-Frog" (1845) A midget seeks revenge
"The Imp of the Perverse" (1850) Procrastination and confession
"The Island of the Fay" (1850) A poetic discussion
"Ligeia" (1838) A haunting supernatural tale
"The Man of the Crowd" (1845) How to follow someone
"Manuscript Found in a Bottle" (1833) Adventure at sea
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1850) The horror of the plague
"Mesmeric Revelation" (1849) Conversation with a hypnotized dying man
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) A detective story
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1850) A comedy with a moral
"The Oval Portrait" (1850) A tragic love story
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1850) A torture chamber
"The Premature Burial" (1850) About being buried alive
"The Purloined Letter" (1845) A detective story
"Silence - A Fable" (1838) A dream
"Some Words With a Mummy" (1850) A mummy speaks
"The Spectacles" (1850) A great little comedy about love at first sight
"The System of Dr.Tarr and Prof.Fether" (1856) Inside an insane asylum
"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1850) A murderer's guilt.
• Genre:
The genre of Poe’s works, their plot structure, type of narration, word choice, imagery, devices with the help of Poe creates and heightens the effect of suspense and horror. Works such as “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” serve as vivid examples of Poe’s effective horror creating technique.
When the story opens, we are confronted with a gloomy atmosphere. When his eyes fall upon the House of Usher he says, “A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” and he is further horrified by images he sees of the house in the tarn. Here, Poe succeeds in creating a sense of fear and suspense in our minds. There is also a use of colour imagery which creates an impact on our senses and feelings made by the shades of light. Poe paints his gloomy settings with four main colours: Black, Red, Grey and Yellow.
Edgar Allan Poe, an important writer and a poet, during the Victorian Gothic period is credited with producing many tales of mystery, and terror. Poe’s first collection of short stories “Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque” was published in 1839.Poe’s imaginative writings within several different modes of discourse show how Poe both followed yet departed from a variety of literary approaches and genres.
In ‘Poe and Gothic Tradition’, Benjamin Franklin Fisher begins by placing Poe among Anglo-American Gothic novelists and then provides close readings of several of Poe’s Gothic tales to show how he manipulated and challenged the conventions of gothic fiction and horror. Also best known for his tales of mystery and macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of short story and is considered the inventor of detective fiction genre.
• Literary Theory:
Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked did a criticism and allegory, through he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art. He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.To that end, he believed that the writer should carefully calculate every sentiment and idea.
• Psychological Dimensions:
Poe’s story "The Tell-Tale Heart" first published in January 1843. It is a gothic story which involved the psychology of man that how psychology operates and it draws man to become devil. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sense (sanity), while describing a murder he committed.
“TRUE! --Nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” – This is the starting of the story.
Throughout the reading of story, reader can understand that there is a factor of Psychology, that how its operate and how it inspires human to do some deed. Here reader can apply psychology of that servant that the Vulture eye of Old man, leads him to do murder of an old man.
Briefly, Poe said that a short story should:
1. be able to be read in one sitting. Poe defined this as being from one-half hour to one or two hours. Nowadays, with television, radio, playstations and Ipod for alternative entertainment, this may seem like a long time. But the one sitting rule is still a good one, even if that one sitting is five minutes.
2. strive for unity of effect. Poe believed the aim of the short story was to create a mood, an ambience, or as he called it, an “effect.” The effect Poe himself often sought to create was terror or horror. While many writers today completely ignore this rule, you may notice in reading short stories a single effect--nostalgia, sadness, elation, whatever.
3. begin with the first sentence.Obviously. But it means more than that. Poe insisted that the effect should be created from the very first line. His best short stories, such as “The Tell-tale Heart,” attempt to create this effect from line one: “True--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and still am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then, am I mad?” Well, this fella does seem to be one can short of a six-pack. And we know it from line one.
4. have nothing in it that detracts from the design. The story should lead directly and inevitably to the conclusion without excess or digressive material. Get to the point and stay there.
5. aim for truth. Not truth, literally. That is, you can still include events that might not literally occur. Lord knows Poe did. He wrote all sorts of wild stories, and so can you. But he believed that the story should remain true to the way people really act in a given situation, true to the human heart.
• Conclusion:
In this sum up topic we can say that Poe's short story are very interestings deals with horror or gothic to explain pshychological thinking. With these examples of characters, we can say that, Poe’s characters have no morality and human values, but they are presented with evil deeds, monstrous figures and criminal minds. Poe’s most of the tales are psychological, horror, gothic, detective, supernatural, mysterious, they are related to crime and have characters who are abnormal, murderers and suffering from their own mentality.
Works Cited:
contributor, wikipedia. edgar allan poe. 25 octomber 2018. 2 november 2018 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe>.
Giordano, Robert. edgar allan. 31 july 2005. 3 november 2018 <https://poestories.com/stories.php>.
ladhva, sagar. assignment. 30 october 2015. 3 november 2018 <http://sagarladhvabetch2014-16.blogspot.com/2015/10/characteristics-of-poes-short-story-and.html?m=1>.
Name: Ravji Jalondhara
Roll No. 28
Enrollment No. 2069108420180024
Paper No. 10 (American Literature)
Assignment Topic: EdgarAllanPoe as a Short Story Writer
Batch No. 2017-19
Email Id: ravjijalandhara@gmail.com
Words: 1633
Submitted to: Department of English MKBU
About Edgar Allan Poe:
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Poe repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for Poe. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money.
Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time that his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with the anonymous collection Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. However, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and he ultimately parted ways with John Allan.
Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
• Shorts Stories by Edgar Allan Poe:
"The Angel of the Odd" (1844) Comedy about being drunk
"The Balloon Hoax" (1844) Newspaper story about balloon travel
"Berenice" (1835) Horror story about teeth
"The Black Cat" (1845) Horror story about a cat
"The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) A story of revenge
"A Descent Into The Maelstr�m" (1845) Man vs. Nature, Adventure Story
"Eleonora" (1850) A love story
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) Talking with a dead man
"The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) An old house and its secrets
"The Gold Bug" (1843) A search for pirate treasure
"Hop-Frog" (1845) A midget seeks revenge
"The Imp of the Perverse" (1850) Procrastination and confession
"The Island of the Fay" (1850) A poetic discussion
"Ligeia" (1838) A haunting supernatural tale
"The Man of the Crowd" (1845) How to follow someone
"Manuscript Found in a Bottle" (1833) Adventure at sea
"The Masque of the Red Death" (1850) The horror of the plague
"Mesmeric Revelation" (1849) Conversation with a hypnotized dying man
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) A detective story
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1850) A comedy with a moral
"The Oval Portrait" (1850) A tragic love story
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (1850) A torture chamber
"The Premature Burial" (1850) About being buried alive
"The Purloined Letter" (1845) A detective story
"Silence - A Fable" (1838) A dream
"Some Words With a Mummy" (1850) A mummy speaks
"The Spectacles" (1850) A great little comedy about love at first sight
"The System of Dr.Tarr and Prof.Fether" (1856) Inside an insane asylum
"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1850) A murderer's guilt.
• Genre:
The genre of Poe’s works, their plot structure, type of narration, word choice, imagery, devices with the help of Poe creates and heightens the effect of suspense and horror. Works such as “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” serve as vivid examples of Poe’s effective horror creating technique.
When the story opens, we are confronted with a gloomy atmosphere. When his eyes fall upon the House of Usher he says, “A sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” and he is further horrified by images he sees of the house in the tarn. Here, Poe succeeds in creating a sense of fear and suspense in our minds. There is also a use of colour imagery which creates an impact on our senses and feelings made by the shades of light. Poe paints his gloomy settings with four main colours: Black, Red, Grey and Yellow.
Edgar Allan Poe, an important writer and a poet, during the Victorian Gothic period is credited with producing many tales of mystery, and terror. Poe’s first collection of short stories “Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque” was published in 1839.Poe’s imaginative writings within several different modes of discourse show how Poe both followed yet departed from a variety of literary approaches and genres.
In ‘Poe and Gothic Tradition’, Benjamin Franklin Fisher begins by placing Poe among Anglo-American Gothic novelists and then provides close readings of several of Poe’s Gothic tales to show how he manipulated and challenged the conventions of gothic fiction and horror. Also best known for his tales of mystery and macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of short story and is considered the inventor of detective fiction genre.
• Literary Theory:
Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked did a criticism and allegory, through he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art. He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.To that end, he believed that the writer should carefully calculate every sentiment and idea.
• Psychological Dimensions:
Poe’s story "The Tell-Tale Heart" first published in January 1843. It is a gothic story which involved the psychology of man that how psychology operates and it draws man to become devil. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sense (sanity), while describing a murder he committed.
“TRUE! --Nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” – This is the starting of the story.
Throughout the reading of story, reader can understand that there is a factor of Psychology, that how its operate and how it inspires human to do some deed. Here reader can apply psychology of that servant that the Vulture eye of Old man, leads him to do murder of an old man.
Briefly, Poe said that a short story should:
1. be able to be read in one sitting. Poe defined this as being from one-half hour to one or two hours. Nowadays, with television, radio, playstations and Ipod for alternative entertainment, this may seem like a long time. But the one sitting rule is still a good one, even if that one sitting is five minutes.
2. strive for unity of effect. Poe believed the aim of the short story was to create a mood, an ambience, or as he called it, an “effect.” The effect Poe himself often sought to create was terror or horror. While many writers today completely ignore this rule, you may notice in reading short stories a single effect--nostalgia, sadness, elation, whatever.
3. begin with the first sentence.Obviously. But it means more than that. Poe insisted that the effect should be created from the very first line. His best short stories, such as “The Tell-tale Heart,” attempt to create this effect from line one: “True--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and still am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then, am I mad?” Well, this fella does seem to be one can short of a six-pack. And we know it from line one.
4. have nothing in it that detracts from the design. The story should lead directly and inevitably to the conclusion without excess or digressive material. Get to the point and stay there.
5. aim for truth. Not truth, literally. That is, you can still include events that might not literally occur. Lord knows Poe did. He wrote all sorts of wild stories, and so can you. But he believed that the story should remain true to the way people really act in a given situation, true to the human heart.
• Conclusion:
In this sum up topic we can say that Poe's short story are very interestings deals with horror or gothic to explain pshychological thinking. With these examples of characters, we can say that, Poe’s characters have no morality and human values, but they are presented with evil deeds, monstrous figures and criminal minds. Poe’s most of the tales are psychological, horror, gothic, detective, supernatural, mysterious, they are related to crime and have characters who are abnormal, murderers and suffering from their own mentality.
Works Cited:
contributor, wikipedia. edgar allan poe. 25 octomber 2018. 2 november 2018 <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe>.
Giordano, Robert. edgar allan. 31 july 2005. 3 november 2018 <https://poestories.com/stories.php>.
ladhva, sagar. assignment. 30 october 2015. 3 november 2018 <http://sagarladhvabetch2014-16.blogspot.com/2015/10/characteristics-of-poes-short-story-and.html?m=1>.
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