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Whats your favorite work by Edgar Allen Poe???


I'll go first.
My favorite Poem by Poe is in my signature... its called A Dream.



P.S. Sorry if this was already a thread...

hmmm, I haven't read many poe works, although as soon as I finish the crop of books that I just bought I am going to get his complete stories and poems. I would have to say from what I have read... the raven

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night or in a day, In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
ALL that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
ONE from the pitiless wave?
Is ALL that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

For fiction: "The Fall of the House of Usher"

For poetry: "Annabelle Lee"

Nice. A Dram Within a Dream is oneof my favorite poems. The Raven is one of the most popular. There's a website with most of his works on it. I'll try to get that for you guys. :p

Kinda crappy if I do say so myself... Oh well.

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Work.html

"The Cask of Amontillado" is my favorite. I still think about it sometimes though I first heard it over twenty years ago.:)

Annabelle Lee

Masque of the Red Death

As far as his stories go, I think A Descent into the Maelstrom is my favorite. The imagery is so scary to me, it actually gave me a fear of whirlpools. I guess that's why I stay out of the deep end of the pool now.:p

Annabelle Lee is a popular one. I certainly like it regardless.

Yeah, Poe has the talent to get under your skin. My mom won't even read it... lol. If I don't have anything to do, I'll end up reading his stories for hours. They never loose their effect, so its fun to read the one's I haven't read in forever.

I haven't read A Descent into the Maelstrom for a year or so, so I'll read that, amoung others, on my trip to California tomorrow. :p

I actually havent read any of his stories (shock gasp!), but his poems are fantastic. The Lake (see signature) is my favourite.

Really? Not even The Tell-tale Heart??? We read that in school. I loved that teacher :p

If you like his poems, you should love his stories. He has the ability to scare the bjesis out of you. :D

Oh, and just so you know, The Pit and the Pendulum was written by Poe :p

my favorite isnt written ..

Same here. I read it in 9th grade, which was 16 years ago. Eek.

evilreign: Nice avatar :)

Isnt that some sort of "lazer"? like the kind found on a "Death Star"?

hahaha it took me a couple of minutes before i knew what the hell you were talking about :D

Im well aware of that...just because it's one of my favourite movies doesnt mean Ive read the story:p

Quoth the Bee-otch... NEVERMORE

cute... :p

Thank you... We try. ;)

Yeah we do!!!


and your welcome. :D

By we I was inferring my split personality. ;)
However... he doesn't come around very much any more
because.................
because......................

I think that I owe myself money. ;) :D

lol. Thats understandable. Does he have a name??? Please don't say Fred... :D

I love teaching Poe because his stories/poems insert some life into an otherwise "by the book" class. It's also a way for me to suck my innocent students into my sick and demented world.:D

Nice. I wish I had more teachers like you. :(

Creativity and addictions are not all that far removed.
There are many examples of this throughout the ages.
Poe is another example on an all too often tragic list.

I'm going to have to go with Annabelle Lee, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Raven. (suddenly I heard a tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door...you heard me rapping right?)

Get this, when I was in high school we had to write an essay in World Geography about who our hero was from history. Our teacher proceeded to tell us the story of a former student who had written about Edgar Allen Poe. Well, this teacher made his student change his hero because he felt that was a horrible hero, with the opium addiction and what not. At the end of the story he told us that the guy was killed a few years later. Now WHAT does that have to do with having Poe as his hero I ask you?!? Absolutely nothing!!!!!! BUT, according to this teacher, his hero was the reason that all of this happened. What a crock of shit. I gave that teacher hell for the entire year after that.

Are you serious??? Thats so mess up. I hate peolpe like that. Its kind of funny how I got teachers like that all the time at public school, but as soon as I went to christian boarding school, all my teachers became open minded and sane. lol. :D

Good job:D

The Tell-Tale Heart is my favorite.

The Black Cat & The Pit and The Pendulum. The first of Poe books that i read when i was young. And the images it left in my mind remains til today ....

I love the Black Cat and Fall of the House of Usher, but every Halloween night - at midnight and by candle light - I read The Tell-Tale Heart aloud (and act it out) to whomever will listen.

We're usually having a partry. Always goes down big.

We read an analyised The Cask of Amontillado in my AP English class...damn thats a cool story.

I just picked up the complete stories and poems of edgar allen poe, all 832 pages of it:D

I had some colections of Poe, and recently I brought a book called "Complete Works of EAP", about 800/900 pages. It's the best way ti gave all of his works.

i like the black cat. if you havent read it its about a man who tries to kill his one eyed cat. instead he kills his wife with the axe he had for the cat. he burries her in the wall in the cellar. the police come and he almost gets away with it. thing is he put the cat in the wall to by accident the cops hear it and tear the wall down and discover his wife. i did a book report on it i got an A.

in going through my stored books i found a hardcover copy of Tales of Mystery and Imagination released by the Heritage Club.

nice book .. comes with a slipcase ... its a reproduction of something released in 1941


i have another one of these - Homer's The Odyssey

I love The Raven and annabell Lee (sorry for spelling) but i also like Eldorado(again sorry for spelling)