Introduction
One of the most influential writers in American writing is Edgar Allan Poe. He is frequently linked to Gothic stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue." Poe's contributions to Gothic writing cannot be disputed, but his impact on American culture is also significant. Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poems from the 19th century continue to have a significant impact on American literature, pop culture, cinema, and education more than 160 years after his passing. Oddly enough, despite achieving some level of fame and wealth after his poem "The Raven" was published in 1845, Poe fought valiantly for his literary career his entire life. For nearly 50 years after his death, Poe's work was mainly disregarded in both the Great Britain and the United States. It was only afterward that the French poet Charles Baudelaire started to recognize the mastermind in Poe's work that American gratitude for his work soared. By the mid-20th era, Poe united Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, and Hemingway on American high school reading lists. "Atlantic" author Scott Meslow refers Poe as one of the few writers who has thoroughly permeated America's pop-culture realization and points out that Poe's legacy is evident in films, comic books, cartoons, music, and even computer games.
Writing and detective
Poe is accredited with the invention of both the horror genre and the detective story. His detective charisma Dupin represents an exceptional literary innovation, and one which Conan Doyle always recognized for influence. Stephen King cites Poe as a writer he loved all through his teen years. Karen Harper, who has trained both high school and college English, considers that reading Poe's short stories in print helps her students to apprehend the setting or mood for a story. Nowadays, the mystery and detective story is one of the world’s most noticeable literary genres, with best-selling authors, Sue Grafton, Dan Brown, Janet Evanovich, and James Brown at the front of the style. Nevertheless, before Poe, the mystery category didn't exist (Vines and Davis 2002). As America’s very paramount detective story, Poe’s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," published in 1841, reputed a prototype that would be used again and again by many authors. The happening of a seemingly unsolvable crime, which, of course, is unraveled by a wily, talented detective of above-average intelligence. With his French detective Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, Poe concreted the way for detectives from James Bond to Sherlock Holmes to permeate American culture through novels and, later, through their supplementary blockbuster movies.
Televisions shows and the dark world
Poe’s influence on American popular culture can probably not be denied. His writings have prejudiced everything from cartoons and comic books to feature films and television shows. For instance, In 1990, cartoon show "The Simpsons" vented “The Treehouse of Horror,” in which big sister Lisa recites the full text of “The Raven” to a terrified Bart. The cartoon “South Park” used Poe as a principal character in the episode “Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers.” Numerous of Poe’s short stories, including “The Pit and the Pendulum,” were interpreted into short films starring actor Vincent Price. In 2012 “The Raven,” was released which is a full-length feature film featuring John Cusack. Also, 2013 saw “The Following,” a TV series featuring Kevin Bacon as an investigator on the trail of a Poe-inspired cult leader.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Psychology of Horror
Edgar Allan Poe was evidently a master of Gothic fiction. Before Poe, writers including Charles Brockden Brown (“Edgar Huntley”) and Horace Walpole (“The Castle of Otranto”) had found success in printing spooky stories about dark and mysterious forests and haunted houses. However, it was Poe who raised the horror genre to the next level by concentrating on the psychology of terror, somewhat than just the dark-and-spooky setting of it. In “The black cat” for instance we see the reverse psychology as he progressively changes from someone gentle to a murderer in the story. In the story, we see the soft narrator as a kid with a tender heart as he narrates his story while at the prison. The narrator’s selfless love for animals and his wife could not lead anyone to believe he could kill his pet but the psychological change makes one think so. He gradually changes from a lover of animals and his wife to one who tortures his pet and wife. His terror-fuelled tales can be accredited with manipulating everyone from Stephen King to H.P. Lovecraft, not to comment on the host of horror movies that leaped from the genre (De Laurentis et al. 427).
Music
Even though Poe is most often recalled for his short stories, he is first and foremost a poet, and many of his poems have unswervingly influenced American culture. In his 1846 “Philosophy of Composition” essay, Poe specifics the painstaking progression of crafting a good poem. He asserts that “The Raven,” his most well-known and enduring poem, is as complex as a math trick and analyses how a poem’s meter, rhyme, length, and subject matter all pay to its effect. As indicated by Hicks, et al.(39), Poe’s poetical style had an insightful effect on a slew of 19th-century French poets, comprising Stéphane Mallarmé, who devoted several poems to him. The effort of those French poets, in turn, directly swayed American writers such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Besides, some Poe's poems have been deciphered into songs performed by both Stevie Nicks and Joan Baez. Lines from his poems particularly "The Raven" have been castoff in by musicians. Ranging from Blues Traveler (“Once upon a midnight dreary” observable in the song “Run-Around”) to Britney Spears, who titled her 2011 concert tour “Dream within a Dream” afterward Poe’s poem of the same name. Poe was called in Beatles' lyrics in the song "I Am the Walrus," on the 1967 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. The assembly also gave him the honor of having his image on the iconic album label. Lou Reed's perception album, titled "The Raven," highlighted interpretations of Poe's works by actors, comprising Willem Dafoe and Steve Buscemi.
Film
Poe has himself performed in a Batman comic, as a wild biker with a confidant raven on the handlebars in a 1970 Roger Corman film, and at one point in a Stroh's beer commercial some decades ago. The raven motif has been applied in an episode of "The Simpsons." According to Bhugra (427), the brilliant news for those in the creative arts is that Poe's work has remained in the public domain for a very long time. One primary contest is the brevity of many of his best works, containing "The Tell-Tale Heart." They don't offer themselves easily to eye-length films. Nevertheless, Roger Corman's 1961 "The Pit and the Pendulum" and 1932 movie "Murders in the Rue Morgue" are deliberated among the best adaptations. 1953 animated short "The Tell-Tale Heart" was designated for an Oscar but also expurgated with an X-rating by the British Board of Film Censors. Hitherto, ironically, Poe made about $6,200 from his writing in his lifetime, as noted by Richard Kopley, writer of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries."
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is evident that the Poe’s work in poetry and stories has influenced American culture greatly. A revolution in the writing, film, Television programs, the dark world, and the music industry has been accredited to Poe. His genius way of writing fiction and explaining the psychology of events has greatly advanced American culture.
Work Cited
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Vines, Lois Davis. Poe Abroad: Influence Reputation Affinities. University of Iowa Press, 2002.
Bhugra, Dinesh. "Using film and literature for cultural competence training." The Psychiatrist 27.11 (2003): 427-428.
