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Edgar Allen Poe - Blog Post #14

For this post I read a few poems by Edgar Allen Poe including one short story named "The Oval Portrait." I don't think that Poe's short stories would be good short stories to share in secondary education. I personally find his work not that interesting. I'm not into stories that are horror related. I'm sure there will be plenty of students who will love horror, but I'm not passionate about it. And I think if I'm not passionate about it, then I shouldn't teach it. I would defiantly recommend it to a few students who like horror and want to get into short story horror from the 1800's. But, yeah, I do find it useful to have students read and figure out what Poe was meaning or to try and figure out another meaning. But as I said before, if I'm not passionate about his work how can I expect students to be passionate. I think there are plenty of other short stories and mediums to use to teach that can be good for me to teach as well as students will be interested in reading.

I will say that I do kind of like some of his poetry. I did read a few poems like "Alone," "The Bells," "The City in the Sea," and "Dream-Land." All of them touch on themes of horror, but I do like some of the lines used in his poetry. I think if were to do a poetry unit, I would use some of his poems for it. I would also for sure stay away from his poetry that rhymes. Unless I'm teaching the structure of rhymey poems, I would stick to his other work along with some other contemporary work from other poets. But, yeah, I do like some of his poetry enough to touch on in class.

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