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Assignment: Edgar Allan Poe
Please read the poems in the links and discuss/answer the following questions.
1. What are the settings of the poems? Do the settings of the poems sound/look American? Why do you think Poe has chosen such settings?
2. What is the proposition of each poem?
3. Which issues of the epoch can be viewws in each poem?
4. Can those poems be related to the search for an original American identity?
5. What figures of speech are employed in each poem?
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