Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is an author that’s work is timeless. The macabre and violence, the twist and turns, and the bizarre and surprising all can be used to describe his work. His work is able to connect with many readers who enjoy things such as suspense and horror which in my opinion are all things that in most cases are timeless. The hauntings and betrayals. The fear and longing of much of his work can be connected to the reader in some way. In the Fall of the House of Usher people are going mad, the Tale-Tell Heart guilt is rampant and so is murder. The Black Cat is stressful; and depressing and almost makes the reader want to throw the book. And the Masque of the Red Death is creepy and has enough of a twist that you may not see it coming. All and all his stories and poems are timeless treasures that encapsulate fear and enthrall the readers to continue to want more and to read him time and again.

In the classroom his work is old enough that the violence seems tame and the themes of his work can be built into any curriculum. His work is hardly ever too long for readers to not be able to finish and much of the language can be easily read or deciphered. What Poe presents in his work allows educators to mold the words and themes into essays, projects, and even discussions. The amount of published work that Poe has also lends itself to the instructor and the readers as it allows for many options to use as teaching tools for a wide variety of lesson plans and even whole units. His work has been used in the classroom so much that administration approval is hardly needed, and the historical background of his work lends itself to much more than just the English Language Arts classroom allowing social studies, and history teachers alike to take from his work and use it in their own lessons.