Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher reads like a concentrated experiment in atmosphere: a short story that refuses to be small, folding psychological pathology, architectural metaphor, and sonic lyricism into a single, inexorable collapse. Poe does not so much tell a tale as stage an experience — one in which language, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” reads like a virtuoso exercise in controlled obsession. In a compact, theatrical narrative of no more than a few hundred lines, Poe engineers an atmosphere so resonant that the poem’s central motifs—loss, memory, and the unanswering voice of doom—saturate the reader long after the final refrain. It is less a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a study in compression: a few pages of prose that map, with surgical precision, the anatomy of guilt. Unlike long Gothic romances that luxuriate in setting and backstory, Poe offers a single, claustrophobic motion — the narrator’s descent from confident rationalization into seizure-like confession — and trusts that … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is often taught as the archetype of the short, perfectly executed revenge tale; read closely, it is also a miniature philosophical probe into pride, performative identity, and the moral elasticity permitted by first-person confession. In under 3,000 words Poe stages a slow, elegant murder that doubles as a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The New Renaissance Mindset 