I compared the works of Edgar Allan Poe while reading the articles The Real Reason for the Jabs of the genius 
I guessed he might be a conspiracy theorist!
In particular, he seemed to argue that the US Central Intelligence Agency might have been involved in Kennedy's assassination!๐ฆ
I felt his disposition was similar to that of Edgar Allan Poe!
Edgar Allan Poe expresses the sensibility of medieval Europe hidden in America.
Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer very famous in Japan and Korea because of his shocking portrayal of medieval European tendencies hidden in Americans and society!
1849 "Annie" daguerreotype of Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (nรฉ Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 โ October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.[2]
Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe.[3] His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. He attended the University of Virginia but left after a year due to lack of money. He quarreled with John Allan over the funds for his education, and his gambling debts. In 1827, having enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name, he published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife in 1829. Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declared a firm wish to be a poet and writer, and parted ways with Allan.
Poe switched his focus to prose, and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1836, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, but she died of tuberculosis in 1847. In January 1845, he published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his own journal The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), but before it could be produced, he died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown, and has been variously attributed to many causes including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide.[4]
Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.
Edgar Allan Poe so vividly portrayed the unchristian tendencies hidden within Americans and society that the Japanese were enthusiastic about his works!
My assertion may surprise Steve and Joseph, who are devout Christians!
From my personal point of view, Alan Poe portrayed very realistically the non-Christian tendencies still hidden within the American people!
Their ancestors were similar to the Japanese in that they were not originally Christians.
So, the Japanese loved Poe's works for revealing that the ancestors of present-day Americans were not as Christian as the Japanese were!
My dear brothers, Steve and Joseph, claim to be blessed, but Alan Poe portrays Americans doomed in curses and misery!
I felt that by reading Alan Poe's works, the Japanese had discovered the shadow of American Christian society that Americans wanted to hide!
You Americans can't escape the fate of death just like the Japanese!?
I felt that Japanese people always have mixed feelings about the fact that Americans claim to be blessed by God!
This is what I speculated about why Japanese people like Alan Poe's works!
You Americans cannot escape the fearful fate of death like the Japanese!?
It is common for Americans who appear in Alan Poe's works to fall into a miserable and terrifying fate!
As I read Alan Poe's works, I discovered about the non-Christian worldview of the United States, and I was shocked!
It was as if I was able to discover the fear, mystery, and mysticism hidden behind my primitive sensibility and rationality!
Shall we say that we saw the non-Christian sensibility, spirituality, and thinking that exist in common in the inner world of all human beings?
I was surprised that an American described the inner and spiritual world of an East Asian like me in such a shocking and realistic way!
I have read literature written by Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Europeans, but I have never met a writer who described the primitive sensibility and rationality hidden in my unconscious world like Alan Poe!๐ฎ
So, Alan Poe still has a reputation as one of the greatest and most tragic genius writers in Japan and Korea!
Alan Poe's works have formed numerous fandoms in Japan and Korea to this day, and his works are being newly interpreted and recreated.
I plan to write later about his influence on East Asian literature, art, and thought!
It is because my English writing skills are not good enough!๐
I could take no offense to your learning about history. Let such trifles trouble you, Nevermore! The Raven is my favorite work by Poe, but I remember reading 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Pit and the Pendulum' as a child, repulsed by the violence and occult themes, but entranced by the mastery of the language.
'The Masque of the Red Death' has gained a cult following in Japan and Korea.
It is a work depicting the time when the plague was widespread in medieval Europe, and it is still famous as Poe's representative work.
When the Red Death spread, European royalty and nobility all took refuge in Catholic monasteries.
After they went into the monastery, they welded the gate and shut it out forever.
Perhaps they believed they could live happily ever after under the protection of the Roman Catholic Church!
They enjoyed and lived in the monastery with the enormous wealth they had amassed.
They had fun by throwing a dance party in seven different colored rooms. However, no one wanted to go to the black room at the end.
A black room suddenly cast a shadow on the window.
The people enjoying the dance party began to tremble with anxiety and fear when they saw the man who suddenly appeared.
Reading those sentences, I always enjoy the thrill of horror and mystery!๐ฎ
Reading those sentences, I felt that Poe was a genius!
This is because the setting of death, which suddenly appears at the most comfortable and happiest moment for humans, always makes me feel fear, shock, and thrill!
Perhaps reading Poe's English sentences,
I wished I could read Poe's English sentences fluently.
I want to be able to appreciate Poe's beautiful English sentences myself.
'The Masque of the Red Death', I felt, portrayed the foolish end of humans who relied on the Roman Catholic faith!
I remembered that many Roman Catholic saints had died from the plague.
European royalty and nobles hid in Roman Catholic monasteries to escape the plague, but all eventually contracted the plague and died.
I concluded that Alan Poe was criticizing and satirizing the hypocritical and blind Christian faith!
Does this mean that the mere act of praying by relying on the Christian faith cannot save human lives?
I thought
llustration for "The Masque of the Red Death" by Harry Clarke, 1919
"The Masque of the Red Death" (originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball in seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn.
Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the eponymous disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazine and has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price. Poe's short story has also been alluded to by other works in many types of media.
The spread of the Black Death in Europe, North Africa and the Near East (1346โ1353)
The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague)[a] was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of 75โ200 million people,[1] peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.[2][3] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis spread by fleas, but during the Black Death it probably also took a secondary form, spread by person-to-person contact via aerosols, causing pneumonic plague.[4][5]
The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic.[6] The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history.
The origin of the Black Death is disputed.[7] Genetic analysis points to the evolution of Yersinia pestis in the Tian Shan mountains on the border between Kyrgyzstan and China 2,600 years ago. The immediate territorial origins of the Black Death and its outbreak remains unclear with some pointing towards Central Asia, China, the Middle East and Europe.[8][9] The pandemic was reportedly first introduced to Europe during the siege of the Genoese trading port of Kaffa in Crimea by the Golden Horde army of Jani Beg in 1347. From Crimea, it was most likely carried by fleas living on the black rats that travelled on Genoese ships, spreading through the Mediterranean Basin and reaching North Africa, Western Asia and the rest of Europe via Constantinople, Sicily and the Italian Peninsula.[10] There is evidence that once it came ashore, the Black Death mainly spread person-to-person as pneumonic plague, thus explaining the quick inland spread of the epidemic, which was faster than would be expected if the primary vector was rat fleas causing bubonic plague.[11] In 2022, it was discovered that there was a sudden surge of deaths in what is today Kyrgyzstan from the Black Death in the late 1330s; when combined with genetic evidence, this implies that the initial spread may not have been due to Mongol conquests in the 14th century, as previously speculated.[12][13]
The Black Death was the second great natural disaster to strike Europe during the Late Middle Ages (the first one being the Great Famine of 1315โ1317) and is estimated to have killed 30 percent to 60 percent of the European population, as well as about one-third of the population of the Middle East.[14][15][16] The plague might have reduced the world population from c.โ475 million to 350โ375 million in the 14th century.[17] There were further outbreaks throughout the Late Middle Ages and, with other contributing factors (the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages), the European population did not regain its level in 1300 until 1500.[b][18] Outbreaks of the plague recurred around the world until the early 19th century.
I call Alan Poe a apocalypse prophet!
No human can escape the fate of death!