what is your favorite Edgar Allen Poe short story or poem?

Answer 1

The Raven.

Answer 2

There is no bad Edgar Allen Poe. He was the Stephen King of the past. And all his stuff is as creepy and disturbing as The Pet Cemetery. But if I have to choose, it would be the Tell Tale Heart. The imagery makes me feel as if I was the murderous character in the tale. Eerie. Though the story with the vengful dwarf is equally creepy.

BTW. did you know:
1 He was adopted. Allen: birth name. Poe: adopted name.
2 He died from Rabies.

Answer 3

Favorite Poe poem is The Raven. Few poems can come close to matching its almost musical sounds.

Favorite short story is probably The Cask of Amontillado. It is both humorous, frightening and very well written.

Answer 4

The Cask of Armontilado.
The Pendulum.
The Raven.(poem)

Answer 5

Amontillado! I have my doubts....

In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whose heart-strings are a lute";
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.

Tottering above
In her highest noon,
The enamored moon
Blushes with love,
While, to listen, the red levin
(With the rapid Pleiads, even,
Which were seven,)
Pauses in Heaven.

And they say (the starry choir
And the other listening things)
That Israfeli's fire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings-
The trembling living wire
Of those unusual strings.

But the skies that angel trod,
Where deep thoughts are a duty-
Where Love's a grown-up God-
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship in a star.

Therefore thou art not wrong,
Israfeli, who despisest
An unimpassioned song;
To thee the laurels belong,
Best bard, because the wisest!
Merrily live, and long!

The ecstasies above
With thy burning measures suit-
Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love,
With the fervor of thy lute-
Well may the stars be mute!

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.

If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky.

Answer 6

Hard question ... okay, here I go:

The Raven ... I love to read this aloud

Annabel Lee ... I had to recite this poem in highschool, I love it

The Tell-Tale Heart ... Another one that I like to read aloud

The Cask of Amontillado ... I like the names of the characters Montresor and Fortunato

The Black Cat ... A story told through the eyes of a murderer

Answer 7

That's a hard one. I think I'd choose "The Pit and the Pendulum" because it's a classic example of true horror being something that shows you where your mind can go when it has no input.

Stephen King said, in his book Danse Macabre, that there are three ways to do a horror story - first, you mess with their mind. Second, you startle them, and if all that fails, then just gross them out.

Poe understood this long before King put it in his book, and I think that is why his stories endure as mind-blowing classics even to this day. He was able to convey the true terror of the thing that scares us most - what our minds might do when their only input is what they create themselves.

Answer 8

Annabel Lee

Answer 9

The Black Cat--about a man who goes crazy, kills two of his cats and his wife in revenge.

Hop-Frog--about the ultimate revenge of a person who is bullied.

While most of his popular stories are great, these two are pure in their Poe style and are a little more lesser known.

Answer 10

The Cask of Armontilado

Answer 11

The Raven