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Edgar Allan Poe: Drinking
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Poe loved puzzles and boasted in his editor's columns about his ability to solve any cryptogram. In what ways does this story reflect this fascination with puzzles, particularly word games? What do Poe's puzzles say about the nature of language?
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Poe arrived in Philadelphia with a patchwork resume reflecting a man whose career consisted of starts buoyed by optimism and terminations clouded by peevish fits. That record would continue during his tenure in Philadelphia.
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The literary critic Daniel Hoffman has argued that Poe, by making misery and horror the subject of his literature, subjects these phantoms to his control and ... enjoys some dominion over them (93-95). Based on your interpretation of this story, would you agree with Hoffman's argument? Why or why not?
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