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Edgar Allen Poe was a great author. He wrote many great short stories and literary works. In his writings, he used a variety of literary elements. It is key in a great author to use these elements in the way he did. Edgar also had a very interesting and troubl ....

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.... Death’ is an allegory in which Death is one of the dramatis personae.” ‘In The Fall of the House of Usher,’ the tragedy is so far from being either gratuitous or a matter of capricious volition that both family and mansion are foredoomed to destruction’” (Buranelli 74). He had a difficult childhood and lived a very disturbed, lonely and sad life. Poe was the second of three children. He had a brother and a sister. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 19, 1809. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold and his father was David Poe, Jr. Poe’s mother died two years after his birth on December 8, 1811. Edgar went to stay with the Allan ....