Nature.. One of my first encounters with it.

As I walk through the woods hand in hand with the two men that at this point in my life are the only men in my life, I am dreading it. The wet soggy mud that sticks to the bottom of my pretty white shoes that my mother bought me disgusts me. How do people do this for fun? What is fun about nature? How can my father and brother really find this fun? The farther I walk the bigger fit I start to throw, screaming and crying is doing me no good and the bugs and rain are getting to me. What do I do? How do I get out of here? Woods all around me I cant see anything but trees and mud. Crunching the leaves step by step I come up with a plan. I sit down in the middle of the mud and bugs and wetness. I refuse to get back up. I am stuck there. My mind refuses to let me move. Finally, with great force I am picked up and carried the rest of the way through this nature walk. I dry my tears and begin to listen to the conversation around me. "Look its a squirrel!" " Dad can we camp out here!?" "Look I found a hiking stick" , I start to enjoy the walk more and more. Its so peaceful and calming. No one to bother you, just you and mother nature, bonding to say the least. Maybe this isn't so bad. Maybe I will come back. I want to tell my mom about this. Suddenly the white shoes are not a big deal anymore. I have just made a new friend.

from the beginning..

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in January of 1809.  Poe was only with his parents for a couple short years before they both passed and he was a foster child. As a child Poe's foster father sent him to the best boarding school and later proceeded to go to the University of Virginia.  In 1827 Poe moved to Boston and enlisted into the US Army. His first set of poems were published that year.  In 1829, he published his second set, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. None of which gained public attention.


Poe began to sell short stories to magazines, and, in 1835, he became the editor of the  Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. He married his cousin Virginia in 1836. Over the course of the next 10 years Poe edited a number of different literary journals. During this time he established himself as a poet, a short-story writer, and an editor. He published some of  his more known  stories and poems including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Raven." After Virginia's death from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe began to struggle with depression and alcoholism.  On October 2, 1849, he was found semi-conscious and died four days later of acute congestion of the brain. His case was later reopened and shown that he could have suffered from rabies.  Today, Poe is remembered as one of the first American writers to become a major figure in world literature.

The Poe Museum

I wanted to share with everyone and website that has tons of interesting stuff about Poe. It is the Poe Museum website.You can take a look at some of his most famous work, also you can read about the Poe Museum, where it started, and when, etc. You can read about him and it also has some death theories! Tell me what you all think? http://www.poemuseum.org/about.php

Welcome! Glad you decided to join us! Here we will look into Literature At Its Finest by Edgar Allan Poe.  We will look at different pieces Poe has written and compare them and their styles.  We will talk about things we like and don't like in the different pieces.  I hope that you enjoy Poe as much as I do and we can really dig deeper into some of his work!