Sunday, 4 September 2016

POE 25

5 Quotes
“I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.”

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” 

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw” 

5 Motifs
Animals: Raven / Black Cat
Evil Eye (Eyes)
Death
Dreaming
Heart (Romanticism)


5 Characters
possess psychic communication, psychotic personality, double personalities
Barnaby Rudge / Grip the Raven (Dickens)
Arthur Gordon Pym
Lady Madeline
Tamerlane
M. Auguste Dupin (Detective)
Madame Eugenie Lalande
Annabel Lee (the unattainable woman - beauty, desire and posession)

5 Locations
desolate, ghostly, eerie, untimely, remoteness, indefiniteness,
ambiguous but removed from the reader's mundane environment. Unfamiliar.
Castles
19th Century America
The Afterlife
The House of Usher
GRAVEYARDS/Cemeteries

5 Pieces of Info
The Mystery of his Death + The Mystery Mourner
Alcohol and Drugs
The Mother Complex
REYNOLDS?
Disputed facts!



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