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EDGAR ALLAN POE1809 - 1849Quoth the predate, NevermoreEdgar Allan Poe DarknessDark what is dark? It is defined in the dictionary as Darkadj 1.Being without light or without much light. 2. not a light in annotate 3.Gloomy. 4. Being without knowledge and culture 5.Secretive darklyadv Dark-ness n.dark2n 1.Absance of light Darkness esp. night 2. A dark or deep colour in the dark 1. In secrecy. 2. In ignorance.Dark is a major part of Edgar Allan Poes work. Take for example The pitfall and the Pendulum The main character is locked in a dungeon with no light to see his surroundings. I quickly unclosed my eyes. My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed. The blackness of eternal night encompassed me.(Edgar Allan Poe, story and structure Canadian edition, The Pit and the Pendulum pg.357 line 33.) Take also for example The Mask of the Red Death. The seventh room was black. But in the western or black chamber the effect of the fire light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the b lood tinted panes, was ghastly and extreme It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the west wall a gigantic quantify of ebony. These are just examples of literally darkness with no light. There is also the literary darkness Like in the Tell Tale Heart, the manhood murders his employer He shrieked once once only. In an n instance I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heave bed over him... the old man was deadI took for the concealment of the body. The night warned, and I walked hastily, but in silence , first as I dismembered the corps. I cut off the head and the legs and the arms. The Raven the man is mourning over the lost love Lanor. When a raven comes only to torment his already tired soul. With those words of pain Never to a greater extent. On this home by horror haunted ramify me truly I implore is there is there balm in Gilead? tell me tell me I implore Quoth the raven never moreIn conclusion it is said that the greatest writer either write a bout sex or death and Edgar Allan Poe is one of the greatly misunderstood writers of our day due to the lack of information on him and his life.