Edgar Allan Poe s The Cask Of Amontillado - 2477 Words

The mid 1800s’ was a time where dark romantics flourished in North Americas when many American authors like Edgar Allan Poe wrote dark short stories like â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† about the world around him. Dark romantics focused heavily on nature like all romantics did, but it had more of a darker approach to nature. Dark romantics helped develop gothic style writing, the gothic style was like the darker romantics, but it also delved more into the supernatural and in to the mind of the characters. Poe was known as one of the best at gothic fiction. He took parts of his life and put them into his stories giving them emotions. Edgar Allan Poe’s works had gothic style by his use of the theme of death, the supernatural and the use of a†¦show more content†¦In 1829 he published his first collection of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems starting his writing Career (â€Å"Edgar Allan Poe Biography†). He joined the army and got appointed to attend Wes t Point. He later got kicked out of west point and focused fully on his writing (â€Å"Edgar Allan Poe Biography†). He moved in with his aunt and fell in love with his 14 year old cousin. They got married in 1836 and moved back to Richmond (â€Å"Edgar Allan Poe Biography†). The end of his life is something of a mystery like straight out of his books. After his wife had died his heath declined greatly, but he continued writing (Edgar Allan Poe Biography). On October 3 1849 he would found in Baltimore in great distress being taken to the hospital he later died of mysterious causes, his last words where â€Å" Lord, help my poor soul†( â€Å"Edgar Allan Poe Biography†). Even though his life was a very tragic one but without it he would have never written as intense of stories and poems as he did and his life would probably not be remembered like it is today. Death is all around us, everywhere we look we run in to death and its cold hands. Poe as a person kn ew a lot about death with a lot of people who he held dear dying. This in turn made his gothic stories center around death. In most of Poe’s stories the theme of death is present bringing fear and horror to the reader. We see this in one of his short stories â€Å"The Fall of The House of