Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic His most recurring themes : death (its physical signs) the effects of decomposition concerns of premature burial the reanimation of the dead, mourning Dark romanticism genre Wrote : horror satires humor tales hoaxes He used irony and ludicrous extravagance "Metzengerstein" - the first story that Poe is known to have published Poe reinvented science fiction responding in his writing to emerging technologies such as hot air balloons in "The Balloon-Hoax" He used themes specifically catered for mass market tastes. Disliked didacticism and allegory "Works with obvious meanings cease to be art." "Quality work should be brief and focus on a specific single effect. "
Generally free use of conversational language, humour, vividness, concreteness of description, topical subjects, general intention of improving society by exposing its vices and follies. Jonathan Swift: combined parody, with its imitation of form and style and satire in prose; technique to create fictional speaker (Gulliver), utter sentiments which intelligent reader recognises as self-satisfied, egoistical, stupid. Master of understaded irony. Gulliver’s Travels (greatest of satires). Fashionable guise of travel book, ship surgeon, fantastic locasions, liliput island (pompous habits of liliputs satirised). The Battle of the Books – mimics the style of excitable journalism in a debate on the relative merits of the ancients as against the moderns in literature, fought between Bee and Spider. A Tale of a Tub – personates a madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”.
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