4. Edward Munch
Born in Norway in 1863. His mother and
sister both died of tuberculosis when he
was very young. His father and brother
died a few years later. He studied art and
worked on his paintings in Europe.
Throughout his life, Edward was affected
by the deaths of all the people he loved.
He got part of one of his fingers blown off
from a gunshot. By the end of his life, he
had extreme anxiety and was put in a
mental hospital.
5. Edgar Allan Poe was born on Jan. 19 1809 in Boston,
Mass. His father left his family when he was only 1
year old, leaving his mother alone with Edgar, his
older brother William, and baby sister Rosalie. His
mother then died a year later. Edgar was adopted by
the Allan family in Richmond, Virginia. Edgars new
father disciplined him harshly and Edgar left in 1815
to study in Scotland. He returned in 1816 and got
engaged to Sarah Royster. He left to study at the
University of Virginia for a year and she left him and
married another man. Poe then lied about his age and
joined the Army in 1827. He left the Army in 1829
with his first published book of poems and acquired
the inspiration for many more. A few years later Poe
(26) secretly married his 13 year old cousin Virginia.
She died 7 years later of tuberculosis. This also
influences many of his poems and stories.
Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Masque of the Red Death is a fictional short story written by Poe in 1845. It
describes a disease that spreads across a kingdom killing whoever it infects in
horrendous, painful ways.The king decides to ignore the disease and locks up
his castle to keep it out.The Prince then throws a masquerade ball and an
uninvited guest shows up. He is dressed in a red funeral cloak and wears a
bloodied mask of a dead man, he looks like a person infected with the disease.
The prince is furious and attacks the man but then falls dead. When the rest of
the guests attack him, they rip off his cloak to find no man beneath it. They all
die instantly.The Red Death has won.
The Masque of the Red Death
7. Written by John Williams for the movie JAWS. John Williams was born
Feb. 8, 1932. He started playing music very early in his home because his
father was a jazz musician. He has studied music at numerous
universities. He has composed hundreds of songs and has been the
primary composer of numerous movie sound tracks such as Star Wars,
Indiana Jones, JAWS, E.T., Jurassic Park and Fiddler on the Roof.
Jaws Theme Song
8. Paul Celan as born Nov. 22 1920 in
Romania. Everyone in his family was
a German speaking Jew. At the
outbreak of WWII, his family was
captured and put in a forced labor
camp. Paul was only there 18 months
until he escaped to the red army, his
parents however, did not escape and
died in the camp. This has Greatly
affected Celan’s poetry.
Paul Celan
9. The Fugue of death is a poem Celan
wrote to describe the horrors of living in
a concentration camp. He describes the
guards forcing the prisoners to dig
graves for one another. He uses
repetition to show the fears they face
every day. He uses a lot of symbolism in
his poem as well.The black milk they
drink is symbolic of the poor conditions
they live in and horrible food they have
to eat. Serpents the guard keeps in his
house are symbolic of evil or he devil.
Fugue of Death
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