Edgar Allan Poe Essay

1. According to the runner paragraph, what characteristics of the sanguine Death make it such a horrible indisposition? * The characteristics of the Red Death that make it such a horrible indisposition are the prof phthisis amounts of blood, sharp pains, sudden dizziness, and the seizure.2. Describe in specific Prosperos plan for escaping the epidemic. * Prosperos plan for escaping the epidemic was to gather a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from his court and keep them within a wall. The courtiers brought massy hammers to dyers mignonette the bolts. Within the wall the people basically rejoiced to keep away from the Red Death.3. What do the ebony clock and its arresting chimes add to the plot? fanny you think of any symbolic value the clock might vex? *4. What symbolic evidence can you find in Poes use of the following? * A. the number sevenB. the use of colors, especially the black and reddened in the seventh room C. the movement from east to west in the sequence of the rooms and throughout the story 5. In your opinion, how does this allusion add a layer of meaning to this story? *6. The want of parental affection, wrote Poe has been the heaviest of my trials. Explain wherefore Poe would make such a statement. *7. What prominent military academy did Poe pick up? Did he graduate? Why or why not? *8. In great detail, comment on Virginia Clemm.*9. Why is much of what we know nearly Poe wrong?*10. Poe is widely known for inventing what type of story?*