how could edgar allan poe's genius be both a blessing and a curse?
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a blessing because of the enlightenmet (being who we're talking about, that's an odd word to use\na curse because the darkness of his books made genius look like madness
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He was one of the most prolific poets of his day.  He could make language do things many others could not.  The beauty in his words lives on.  His poems are as meaningful and understandable today as they were in the 1800's when he was writing them.  Much of his work has proven to be timeless.
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Thanks Curious1 !!!\nMore specifically the remedy is redemption of sin throught Jesus Christ.\nLook around you, ALL of the worlds' problems are caused by sin.  Even natural disasters are the result of "the curse" caused by SIN!
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It is like most other ancient books – a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly – all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good – some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural – all the cruel and barbaric laws – and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.
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edgar allen poe, never more
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The sum of human experience is finite and share many commonalities. So it is possible to say things in such general terms and yet with some level specific hints that it can pass off as a fortune reading. With people wanting so much to believe in something and hoping for something, that it is easy for opportunists to exploit it.
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Check out Edgar Allan Poe. He was real "gothy".
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It is neither magic or evil. It is however extremely dangerous, and has no spiritual standing. \nWho is qualified to alter the will of God?\nBefore you place yourself under the influence of a card reader ask yourself what your attachment is to the reading and what is the readers attachment.\nGod is struggling every day to rescue souls who have been misdiagnosed by incompetent spiritual doctors.\nMake sure you show respect to God before you seek a reading.\nGods food is truth.\nTell him you dont think he is reliable.\nHe will understand.
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...maybe something a little vague but powerful? It's been so long since I read Hamlet.\n\n    It is sometimes said that man makes his own fate. This is perhaps true of Hamlet and Claudius in the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. Both men had some degree of control over their fate, and the fate of others. That they chose not to recognize it is proof of both their self destructive personalites and the genius of playwright William Shakespeare.
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God is the source of creativity.
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Stephen King, to name a biggie. Check out Bartelby.com, I think, and some other sites. Just type in "Poe's influence modern authors" and see what you find. MLA sites have some good stuff, too.
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i prefer writing found poems.anybody like edgar allan poe?
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Yes.\n\nhttp://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/poe/poe_ind.html\nhttp://www.internal.org/list_poems.phtml?authorID=5\nhttp://www.pambytes.com/poe/poe.html\nhttp://www.geocities.com/plt_2000plt_us/englam/poe.html\nhttp://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/index.htm\nhttp://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Work.html
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Robin_Thor has a good understanding about this literary giant and this is to let him know that we appreciate a good effort. \nWell itsamystery, hopefully you are rested up from your Spring Break because if this is an assignment that needs to be turned in I am afraid that you have some work to do.\nIn gratitude to you for your question I will answer you with 'my start' into this work which if not for your question I would still be outside on the patio.  \n\nHere goes a swell beginning:\n\n.\n\nWhy, Death Be Not Proud\nIn “Death Be Not Proud” the protagonist literary presenters are chosen teenagers for the reasons that the importance of this poem is to have a definite and positive impact on younger students and young adults alike across the world.  For it serves as guide for the confrontatious attitudes necessary in the face of, emotional, physical and spiritual adversity.  To forge a better social function among us that will inevitably present to our younger generations. These are all here and within this poem and which all support the theme of this magnificent writing.  In  “Death Be Not Proud” is found a generational social cohesiveness that is necessary for a functional society’s survival, and which is so well prayed by John Gunther’s 1947 memoirs.  \nIt is a penned offering intellectually and emotionally secured as a memoir to his son whose ultimate youthful death by a brain tumor at the age of seventeen is eminent. Gunther draws from his heart and from John Dunne’s 17th century “The Holy Sonnets: X” in producing this writing.  It is a poem, in which Gunther argues that ‘death should take no pride in what it does, as it is ultimately powerless to prevent the resurrection of all humanity.’ It can be presented at a literary discourse for educational purpose or as a play on a stage.  \n“Death be not proud, though some have called thee / mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,\nFor those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,\nDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.\nFrom rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,\nMuch pleasure:  then from thee much more must flow,\nAnd soonest our best men with thee do go,\nRest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.\nThou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,\nAnd dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;\nAnd Poppy or charms can make us sleep as well\nAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? \nOne short sleep past, we wake eternally,\nAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.     John Donne\nIt is a versified oratory free-verse poem with melodic tone, chant, and supple plea/defiant texture composed about young Johnny Gunther.  About his attitudes and strife for living in the face of a natural and inevitable defeat.  It is the presentation of the life of Johnny’s family and their recourse to every medical possibility known at the time, taken from an elegy of a long time past, converted from a poem of love and not a poem of mourning. And even unto an eternal spiritual search for the healing of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit of their son by John Gunther and his wife.  About their tessellated forms draught from their experiential abilities within such frames of human suffrage.  In explicit honesty are laid bare the pains and struggles of a family trying to delay the ultimate inevitable end for a son that is as brilliant as Johnny.  From the radical surgeries to strictly controlled diets in endless effort to save his life by a determined harmonious familial union in the face of adversarial reality as they live on for life’s sake. All while in defiance of any honor attributable by mere mortals to death’s demands. \n\nhttp://www.cs.rice.edu/ ssiyer/minstrels/poems/796.html  \n\n\nJose
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Just chance, but they've provided for some fun.\n\nThe first provided the basis for one of my favorite bits of graffiti (discovered on a carrel in Yale Univesity's Sterling Memorial Library):\n\nDyslexics of the world, untie!\n\nThe second is the basis of a wordplay (a sometime sermon illustration and basis of a number of stories, probably apocryphal) -- how do you read "godisnowhere"?  Some see "God is nowhere"; others see "God is now here!"
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It certainly seems to be.\nAfter all, how else could they convince people that such a poorly written book of fiction was inspired by a  divine and perfect being?\nLaughable!
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered the "father" of the mystery story genre. Among his best stories are "The Gold Bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," "The Purloined Letter," and "The Black Cat." He also was a master of horror stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Cask of the Amontillado." Enjoy his stories. He is amonjg the greatest of all American writers.