Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

That home, known today as the " Poe Cottage ", is on the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name " Reynolds " on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring.

The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.

For example, it is now known that Poe was not a drug addict.

In fact, " Metzengerstein ", the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.

T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.

Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe

No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate.

The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.

The dorm room Poe is believed to have used while studying at the University of Virginia in 1826 is preserved and available for visits.

Poe failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed he had been drunk.

Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia ( as well as his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe ).

Poe, a critic himself, believed that terror was a legitimate literary subject.

This edition omitted Longfellow's poem because, Poe believed, it was plagiarized.

A childhood sweetheart of Poe's named Sarah Elmira Royster believed the poem was written with her in mind and that Poe himself said so.

It is believed Poe and Osgood first met in person when introduced by Nathaniel Parker Willis in March 1845 when Osgood had been separated from ( but not divorced from ) her husband.

Poe was very popular with the masses and it was widely believed that he would be a sure winner if he ran for president.

Poe believed that all literary works should be short.

Discussing the latter works, Vianu noted that they reminded one of Shakespeare's late romances, while Şerban Cioculescu believed them to have been indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

The star which prompted Poe to write " Al Aaraaf " was believed to foretell disaster or that humanity would be punished for breaking God's laws.

He believed that if future poems by Poe were as good as some of his best lines in " Al Aaraaf ":

The roses were believed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm, all three of whom were originally interred at the site.

Poe rented the house early in 1843 and is believed to have lived there for about a year or less along with his wife Virginia and his aunt / mother-in-law Maria Clemm.

Though Poe later published a self-censored version of the work he believed he should be judged solely by how many copies were sold.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.

Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages.

Several months passed and pleas to Allan were ignored ; Allan may not have written to Poe even to make him aware of his foster mother's illness.

They may have been expecting verses similar to the satirical ones Poe had been writing about commanding officers.

Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In " The Philosophy of Composition ", an essay in which Poe describes his method in writing " The Raven ", he claims to have strictly followed this method.

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

Poe may have been inspired, at least in part, by a prior journalistic hoax known as the " Great Moon Hoax ", published in the same newspaper in 1835.

Poe may have been inspired to focus on the purposeful impersonal torture in part by Juan Antonio Llorente's History of the Spanish Inquisition, first published in 1817.

" Poe is also considered to have been influenced by William Mudford's The Iron Shroud, a short story about an iron torture chamber which shrinks through mechanical action and eventually crushes the victim inside.

According to statements on her official forum, Poe started work on a third album, but details are sketchy and several years have passed since the first announcement.

Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay " The Philosophy of Composition ".

Poe had written a review of Barnaby Rudge for Graham's Magazine saying, among other things, that the raven should have served a more symbolic, prophetic purpose.

Poe may also have been drawing upon various references to ravens in mythology and folklore.