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Emerson leveled attacks at Poe (such as his being "the jingle man") in part because Poe made Emerson quite uneasy when he turned the national belief in individual and imperial self in a strange new direction-inward. Discuss self-fashioned forms of reality, such as dreams and trance states, in Poe's work. Do they lead Poe's characters and readers to larger truths? Do they also confuse those same readers and characters?

People often notice the auditory quality of Poe's writing. How and to what effect does Poe infuse these rhythms into his text?

Toni Morrison has identified The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym as a racialized text. What relationships / patterns do you see between Poe and race in his other works?

Poe is typically identified with the genre of detective fiction. Choose a specific text and discuss how it fits into the detective genre.

Please tell me more about poe?