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March 27, 2012 The Research is over now it's Time to Reflect
Blog #8

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In my research paper I had gotten a fairly decent paper over all. The weak spots in my paper though that I am able to work on to improve with the next paper I write, are the elements of transitions, expression of the content. I had done well with the content of the body of the paper though. As well as I had done well finding different sources for information for this project.=====

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Researching Edgar Allan Poe, has been quite an interesting thing. This paper his been quite easy so far, the most difficult thing as been trying to get everything done in the time restraints due to the fact that I still have other classes I am involved in and have homework and studying I must do for those as well and I am not merely in just English class with that homework every night.=====

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Edgar Allan Poe had a troubled life, no matter what part of his life he was in. He had been orphaned at the age of two, and then was taken in by a tobacco salesman. I find it fascinating that it is thought that although he constantly wrote of death, he was believed to be terrified of death. I have learned that not all sources are reliable, as well as not all reliable sources are useful.=====

February 15, 2012
The Deadly Swing of the Pendulum

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I had read a conglomeration of stories from my book this week. Each story had a new set of characters, a new situation, and a new location. This was a good book for someone like be that loses interest in a story if the plot is too long, and it takes a while to get to the actual story. Each story was way different. My favorite short story from this time period of reading was "[|The Pit and the Pendulum]," because there was mystery behind why he kept passing out, and the contents of the room. He is a man that is captured for his race and beliefs, and then is saved, after he had quick thinking on his part to get out of the [|Pendulum] situation. I had also read "[|The Cask of Amontillado]," which was about a man seeking revenge, and showing his upper-hand on the situation, poisons the mind, and body of someone in order to get revenge by murdering the man by starvation and dehydration. "[|Murders in the Rue Morgue]," was a short story about murders, that were mysterious until Dupin solved that it was not as mysterious as thought before. In "[|MS Found in a Bottle]," the guy survives, or seems to survive long enough to have an unavoidable fate, death by natural disaster. "[|The Purloined Letter],"=====

February 7, 2012 Blog #4
=Murder and Madness =

==== I have now read "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," and part of "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether." These all have death or madness in common so far. The madness that the Prospero would believe to close his gates is to protect him from the Red Death, and that a man in a house there to help, would then destroy it.==== These stories are powerful, and illusive. The way you think it will end is how it does, but even more emotional. Poe writes of angered, spiteful, and deceptive people. No one, and nothing is safe in life, especially when it comes to a madman. The insanity that the eye of the old man, drove the character to kill him, out of disgust, and madness. It shows the Murder that the Characters Poe writes about in [|A Tell-Tale Heart] and death in [|The Masque of the Red Death]. These are fascinating stories that he tells. "The Masque of the Red Death" tells of the Red Death that kills basically all the people in the land, and it seems as though death itself is the one who comes to take the hopeful prince. In "A Tell-Tale Heart," he kills in the bedroom chamber, and goes insane from guilt, after almost getting away with murder. All of Poe's writing is in a first person standpoint, so it is interesting to think of if these are thoughts that came upon him in a real life situation, or if it is only thought of for his writing.

I have currently read 52 pages of short stories or poems out of the Collective book by Poe.

January 27, 2012 Blog #3
= //__The Cat Came Back__// = In Edgar Allan Poe's "[|The Black Cat]" he tells of his love for a cat that he owns, and for all animals in fact. He comes to find a great love for the cat. Yet he starts to find a dislike for the cat. He starts to let his tempt through. The things expressed by Poe in this story, are that he has an uncontrolled temper and he is upset by simple things. He has expressed that he has no remorse after a deed has been done once. He ended the life of his greatest friend, because he didn't want to have him around in his time of misjudgement. He had been intoxicated, and not very well controlling about his emotion. He brutally stabbed out the eye of the cat, Pluto, in cold blooded harm. Later to hang it to death. When he is finally forgetting his act, another cat comes to replace it. Yet this cat, is not exactly the same as the original black cat, but has many similar things. In the end of the story the new cat has made up for all the wrong-doings of it's master. And got to see the fall of a sinner. " a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it - if such a thing wore possible - even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God." This stood out to me because he in a way sees he has sinned in the eyes of God, and that he may not be forgiven for it, yet in the end of the story, he indeed forgives himself for the acts he has made. Which to most people would seem quite unforgettable, and like he may be heartless. So the fact that he worries about God's forgiveness, and already has his own is questionable about who he finds with higher power.

January 20, 2012 Blog #2
//__**The Poems Of Poe**__//

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In my Book, I have no one character, because it is a collection of stories and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe. In each of the poems and stories I have read so far, there is a different development to each his characters for the piece of writing. The poem that had stood out the most to me is called [|Bridal Ballad]. This was one of his earlier works of poetry form his career. A very happy Edgar Allan Poe is expressed in this poem, and it shows start of the relationship with Lenore, and how it started out very blissful. Although expresses different emotion further into the poem. Also in Poe's poem [|The Raven] he expresses the emotions towards Lenore, although he seems very hostile towards Lenore, he seems to also miss her company, for he is alone in the house. The feelings behind this poem are very angry, isolated, and remorseful. He never expects this event, as he is the main character of this poem, and he seems mentally unstable for he is having this vision of a raven that is talking to him, taunting him about his ended relationship. Many of the poems express great emotion, and can be questioned for the reasoning behind why he is expressing and feeling the ways he does. Edgar Allan Poe has written many stories and poems and his poems can be found in a list. The poems that are written by Poe can be found [|here.]



I will be studying Edgar Allan Poe. I will be reading __The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.__This is a collection of different stories and poems throughout Poe's time writing. You can find more about Edgar Allan Poe at [|this website]. I will be looking to reading the works of Poe because of his style of writing because of the gothic style and he is slightly questionable for his mental stability.