Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an innovator in many ways. He was one of the first American authors that tried to write for a living instead of doing it on the side and this was big despite his financial troubles since it set an example for other authors whose true passion was writing and writing alone.  Besides from his lifestyle he was an innovator in his writing; he created a whole different type of short story that didn’t exist or wasn’t prominent beforehand. His stories were Romantic stories, so they protested something that was an issue and often times they tended to be traditional things or things that have always been done a certain way. One example of this is how in The Fall of the House of Usher he’s trying to say that maybe incest isn’t the best way to keep the blood line “pure” and that’s a practice that had been going on for hundreds of years beforehand. Poe showed another method of protest through writing that was peaceful yet entertaining. His stories often required you to just get loose and go with the flow for a little bit and pretend that his story is like a historical account or something. If logic was used in a lot of his stories, the scenarios would be very unlikely and coincidental, but with a little plot work it made sense. His stories also entertained the reader enough that they would really like them and to a person seeking it, it would reveal a much deeper meaning. Poe was an author that had much deeper meanings in his short stories and poems than what it first appears to be and that protested taboo practices in subtle ways. He was an innovator and a man authors still look up to today. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer to be respected.