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- Thats spot on! How did you know?
- Say Doctor Brooke, I really need my players on the soccer team to write their paper on Edgar Allan Poe, what's some good advice for them.
- Coach Reed, let me guess, they are reading "The Raven" and "Ligeia"?.
- THINKING ZONE
- (Chuckles) I assigned it to them.
- Well, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most important writers to come out of the American Romantic period. Which was from 1820 to 1860. I shall start with, "The Raven". "The Raven" holds Romanticism traits because the speaker is in the middle of a mental breakdown and begins to talk to a crow as a consultant. At this moment Poe is acknowledging that Nature is always above man and he gives the crow the role of God as the speaker begs for answers from the devilish bird but in the end curses at the black bird. Another trait of Romanticism that the poem holds is the human nature, although dark, the human nature is a man mourning the loss of a loved one who was a woman. This is expressive and relatable as Romanticism also highly embraces the average man.
- Now, many scholars will say that "The Raven" is Poe's best work, which the poem is tremendous for the structure and exploration of potential mental illness of insanity, Poe's "Ligeia" truly explores the dark side romanticism. I don't want your students to be fully aware that the speaker in the story is heavily under the influence of opium. So while his high is peaking, he sees his decaying wife in front of him die and come back to life. These scenes are not meant to be spiritual instead they are meant to be horrific. This is Poe exploring the unconscious mind. We can get lost in our dreams and the speaker gets lose in his opium dream. Poe is bringing to light that society around him is decaying and there is no escape.
- In "Ligeia" Poe is creating a new genre that embraces dark feelings of the human soul and of course death is a recurring theme in Poe's work that represent Romanticism, he embraces death as unfortunately it seems to have followed him his whole life starting with his mother.
- NATURE
- This makes me so sad to know that someone has had such dark feelings even in those colonial times. It seems like Poe was misunderstood individual or maybe the drugs literally drove him insane. Nonetheless, I hope my players on the soccer team do good on your assignment
- If someone mentions that both pieces of work contain grief from losing a loved one and that Poe brings the supernatural to life in both stories, I shall be impressed
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