The Short-Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

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This Q&A Forum is dedicated to the short-stories of Edgar Allan Poe, who is one of the earliest and one the most influential short-story writers of modern English. He was in fact instrumental in defining the very form of the modern English short-story.

Edgar Allan Poe 's importance as a short-story writer may be seen in his pioneering contributions to the genre, in his theory of the tale, in the rich variety, meaning, and significance of his stories, and in their influence on writers the world over. Poe was a pivotal figure in converting the traditional Gothic tale of mystery and terror into variations of the romantic tale and the modern short story by shifting the emphasis from surface sensationalism, suspense, and plausibility of plot pattern to the "under current of meaning" suggested by the symbolic play of language, the subtle use of style, tone, and point of view, the subconscious motivation of character, and serious interpretive themes. The diversity of his seventy works of short fiction (including some sketches) represents not only a response to the demands of the literary marketplace but also an expression of his own deeper evolving outlook on life and his theory of the short story, especially "the tale of effect." -- Dictionary of Literary Biography

― Heave Ho (Heave Ho), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

how come no one else could hear the heart beating in that one heart story??

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

The narrator believes that the disease had sharpened his hearing (ref:first paragraph) however the events of the story suggest that he suffers from auditory hallucinations and paranoia.

― Heave Ho (Heave Ho), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

More like Edgar Allan Ho lol amirite?

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

have you read 'ms in a bottle'? I didn't understand it. Who was on the ship at the end? was it ghouls? Was the narrator a ghoul too? And did they go down into hell at the very end? I think they were ghouls.

― Simon Clover, Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

how did he get thru the pit and the pendalam without his peepee getting chop off

― parker b, Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

i wrote a short story too:

Magnus dashed into the shower area desperately. He had been stalking one special mech for weeks, and now it was time for him to make his move. Silently he removed his codpiece and slipped into the occupied stall.

The small robot turned to gawk at Ultra Magnus' long staff. "Wheelie say, Ultra Magnus is horny today!" he chirped.

"Damn straight!" the city commander growled and bent the small robot over. "Rear entry commencing!"

Wheelie gasped as Magnus' immense cock entered his small aft. "Wheelie say, never thought you were gay!"

"Shut up and push!" Magnus gasped, moaning. Those rhymes really fired his synapses. He couldn't resist a rhyme of his own. "I'm through with your bum, I'm about to cum!"

Wheelie gasped in between moans, "Then enough of fucking, I'll start sucking!"

It took all of his restraint not to cum, but Magnus calmed himself and pulled out of the small robot's rear. Wheelie turned around, his pinkish cock saluting his commander as he knelt and licked the immense rod before him. "This isn't a joke, your cock's going down my throat!" he sighed, making the rhyme sound extremely sensual.

With such a suave stud sucking his cock, Magnus could hold back no longer. He roared and fired a wad of cum all over Wheelie's face and chest. The tiny robot shut down his optics and savored the feeling as the hot liquid splashed over him.

― bato (bato), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

The crew of the ship were undead people, forced to roam the seas, who hoped to finally die at the North Pole. Poe believed that the North pole was a huge drain into which the water of the the oceans got continously flushed down "into the bowels of the Earth", that's why there was a huge vortex there (like the vortex in a sink). The narrator himself was alive till the end (not undead).

― Heave Ho (Heave Ho), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

how did he get thru the pit and the pendalam without his peepee getting chop off

Eliphantitus my deaf Praker! it was becase the pendulum was situated over his chest.

― Heave Ho (Heave Ho), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.curvecomm.com/teletubbies/po.gif

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 07:51 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps the largest class of rhetorical terms in Poe's works is indeed that of repetition--the duplication of words in a moronic manner. Several examples of which are examined below. All are from the short story The Tell-Tale Heart.

“I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously –cautiously”. (Repetition)

"It grew louder --louder --louder!”. (Repetition)

“And so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.” (Repetition)

"I resolved to open a little --a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it --you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily –until” (Repetition)

“I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head.” (Repetition)

"I moved it slowly --very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep." (Repetition)

Conclusion:

Poe seems to have believed that his readers were Teletubbies, who wanted everything repeated "Again! Again!"

― Heave Ho (Heave Ho), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

hahaha i forgot about that transformers slash

― Lingbert, Saturday, 24 February 2007 06:29 (eighteen years ago)

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― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 26 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

the origins of transformers slash

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

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1:36 I have never laughed so hard in my laugh.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

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― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)