Культурология. Горелова А.В - 29 стр.

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had no true claim to Allan’s money, name, or protection. In fact, his was а home
where they did not have to take him in; they could close the door against him.
Although Poe had done well in his studies he was unable to continue at the
university.
Another Failure. In his despair and frustration, Рое decided to become а
soldier. Не quickly advanced in rank and responsibility, and after two years he
was accepted by the United States Military Academy for training as an officer.
Again, however, Рое’s relationship with Allan, as well as his own pride, brought
failure to а hopeful enterprise. When Allan refused to give him the financial
assistance he requested, Рое purposely disobeyed orders and refused to go to
classes so that he would be discharged, from the Academy. This ended his
career in the army.
That was enough for John Allan, he refused lo take any further
responsibility for the boy his wife had found. It had all been а mistake, and
Allan accepted the error. Рое, he announced, could go his own way from that
time on. And so, at the age of twenty-two, Edgar Allan Poe arrived in New York
City.
Не found jobs of а sort — in fact, for а time he was а successful editor
and literary critic — but he found few friends. His pride probably made many
people feel unfriendly toward him. And he may have been convinced that he
never could belong to the world of people who were correctly born and had
families and proper names. Also, his tendency to drink too much at times and
the effect this had on his behavior, together with а bitter, cutting tongue, made
him difficult to like.
The World Within. So he retreated into himself, into а world that few
people ever experience and none before him had ever revealed. We have his
writing as evidence of this process of retreat. Рое revealed, probably more than
any other writer, his own thoughts and feelings - his mind, heart, nerves,
passions, hates, and madness. The world he created is like some beautiful cave
filled with fanciful illusions that become real and believable through Рое’s
skillful writing. Не leads the reader into this world through some of the most
wildly imaginative and musical words ever conceived.
Рое's stories and poems — The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque
of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold Bug, А Descent
into the Maelstrom, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Telltale Heart, Lenore, The
Raven, The Bells, and others — contain characters and situations that are not
now, and never were, а part of the real world. The characters are not persons you
might meet: the plots couldn’t happen. But the memory of some experience we
have refused to accept may make it appear to be part of the frightening truth we
may be desperately denying. We know this: all of us are attracted by horror, but
few dare submit to it as Edgar Allan Poe did.
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