Family
After the loss of both his parents Poe was adopted by this family.
Who is the Allan family?
Father figure that Poe had a negative relationship with.
Who is John Allan?
Two careers that Poe's peers thought he could pursue.
What is an artist & writer.
The most dominant themes in Edgar's writings.
What are the grim realities of his own life?
Poe's poem that is projecting his future loss of his wife to tuberculosis. The story that brought him a lot of fame.
What is The Raven?
Poe's relation to his wife prior to being married to her.
What is a cousin?
The number of children the Poe family had prior to Edgar.
What are zero children?
This caused Poe to go into debt in college.
What is gambling?
The way Poe described women " _____ ______"
What are angelic figures?
Tells the story and tragedies of tuberculosis that Poe had seen in his life from the death of his mom, step mom and brother.
What is the Mask of the Red Death?
Poe's age when his dad left.
What is 2 years old?
The disease that killed both Poe's mother and his adoptive mother.
What is tuberculosis?
First college that Poe attended.
What is University of Virginia?
The short story that only made Poe $14.
What is The Raven?
The short story that Poe had a hard time publishing because it was "too loud". The narrator is driven by his own guilt of killing an old man.
What is the Tell Tale Heart?
The play character that Poe's mother played on the road.
Who is Juliet?
Poe's early love interest that died and he sat at the grave of.
The college that Poe finished his education at.
What is West Point?
Poe's alias.
Who is Edgar Perry?
One of the first detective fiction stories written.
What is Murders in the Rue Morgue?
Edgar's age when his mother died.
What is 3 years old?
The name of the river Poe swam the entirety of.
What is James' river?
The island in SC that Poe was stationed at in the military.
What is Sullivan's Island?
The nicknames Poe gained for being a harsh & brutally honest literary critic.
What is the Tomahawk Man & Comanche of literature?
Poe's last complete poem that explores the death of a beautiful young woman and was written after his wife, Virginia, died of tuberculosis.
What is Annabel Lee?