Review: OK, so it's called "great literature"--I still don't want to fill my heart and head with these products of a sick mind.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
Poe, in one of his letters, says that it was his wife's vacillating between life and death that drove him to drink.He would think she was dying, and then she would recover, only to become deathly ill again. This happened over and over until he was almost out of his mind. His spiritual and mental depression shows in his writing. He was a genius in the use of words, but I still don't want to fill myheart and head with these products of a sick mind. The best example of his literary genius, without the horror, is "The Bells", in which Poe uses the sounds of the words to create the sounds of the bells. I have used this poem in a college reading and writing class.