American literary critic, editor, poet, and author Edgar Allan Poe also wrote short stories.

He was an American Romantic Movement member. However, Edgar Allan Poe is most  frequently connected with Gothic stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Masque of the Red Death" since he is one of the most enduring writers in American literature. Poe's contributions and influence to Gothic literature cannot be disputed, but his influence on American society is just a significant. Even after his death more than 160 years ago, fans of American literature, film, and pop culture continue to draw inspiration from Poe's poems and stories. He was also one of America's first short story authors, and he is frequently credited with developing the genre of investigative fiction. Also acknowledged are Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to science fiction, which is still popular today. In addition to other technical topics like cosmology and encryption, his writings had a tremendous influence on American literature. His best-known Gothic works dealt with death and decay, untimely burial, reanimation of the dead, and bereavement. He was one of the most well-known and significant American authors of the nineteenth century and the first to try to launch a writing career. Poe's work was greatly impacted by the things that went on in his environment.

It's impossible to dispute Poe's influence on western civilization. Everything from cartoons and comics to major television programs and motion pictures have been affected by his writings. Despite, Poe being most frequently associated with his short tales and stories, he saw himself as a poet first, and several of his poems have had a significant impact on American culture. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which was published in 1841, created the model for the detective narrative that would be utilized time and time again by innumerable authors: an apparently baffling crime that is, of course, solved by a cunning, talented investigator with above-average intelligence. Poe's influence on Gothic literature cannot be disputed, but his influence on American society is similarly as significant. Even after his death more than 160 years ago, Poe's stories and poems continue to have an impact on pop culture and writers in the United States. The primary goal of this essay is to evaluate Edgar Allan Poe's significant and fundamental contributions to western culture.

Poe's poem "The Raven" is among his most popular stories. Poe "uses Repetition, Alliteration, Internal Rhyme, and Onomatopoeia to address a man lamenting the death of his love and he is soon plagued by a raven," according to the site article "The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Theme and Analysis." According to the same source, "The Raven is not a symbol of a lost lady but a symbol of death and always has been a symbol of death" (2017). There is no doubt that Poe's troubled personal life had an effect on the poem's dismal and frightening tone. Poe said that before actually composing a single word of "The Raven," he carefully considered issues like length and versification, according to Stevens in "Advice from the Crypt" (2012). One of Poe's most well-known poems, because of how well The Raven makes use of literary clichés, it is still taught in classrooms today. One of Poe's other well-known works is his collection of short stories.

Edgar's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is one of his most well-known and significant works. Poe: His Life and Legacy, his autobiography According to Meyers, Auguste Dupin is "Poe's most interesting fictional figure" and "[solves] difficulties by means of pure disembodied intellect," which makes him special (1992). Dupin is illustrated as a person who "exercised remarkable cleverness in detecting the crime" and one "in full control of his reasonable faculties" (1992). Despite the fact that mysteries were not a new literary genre, Edgar was the first writer to inaugurate a character who figured out the mysteries by examining the facts of the case, according to the web page "Edgar Allan Poe Invents the Modern Detective Story" (2017). Poe reimagined the detective story genre and created characters with the wit and complexity to crack codes and unravel mysteries with his own intelligence. The same source also discusses how Poe foreshadowed features that later authors would use and develop further in "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (2017). For instance, "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made Sherlock Holmes, a figure with quirks comparable to Poe's Dupin, popularize the detective narrative" (2017). Despite not being as widely called Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Dupin is noteworthy since he served as the model for the well-known contemporary investigator. Poe's writings had an impact on not only other earlier works but also on contemporary literature and society.

Since several of Poe's well-known works are popular in the United States, their effect on modern society is frequently discernible. Steven, in the book "Advice from the Crypt," refers to Poe as "one of the early authors (some would even argue the inventor) of both horror and detective stories, and as the composer of some of the most frightening poetry in the language" (2012). The famous Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and the first "modern detective" tales were both influenced by Poe's fictional detective story collection about Auguste Dupin. Poe's detective tales provided the mystery genre with inspiration, yet even now, people are still frightened by his depressing and horrifying poems and short stories. Steve Meslow provides examples of Edgar Allan Poe's continuing influence in his magazine article "Pop Culture's Undying Edgar Allan Poe Obsession," including the John Cusack-starring film "The Raven," Poe's literature aspects use in comic books of the Batman, the recreation of "The Raven" in an episode of "The Simpsons," and many more (2012). Because Poe's popularly known stories are "packed with macabre, feverish imagery that explodes off the screen" and "his writings are old enough to be in the public domain, so any filmmaker can adapt any of his stories for free," according to Meslow, people are infatuated with them (2012). Poe's writings have been referenced, recreated, and read countless times because of their continued fascination with readers. Poe lived 200 years ago, but his effect may still be clearly recognized in contemporary culture.

The Romantic Movement, which originated in Germany and expanded throughout Europe and Russia, included Edgar Poe. The movement and the development of American literature happened almost simultaneously. Poe had a significant impact on American literature's shift toward a more philosophical and metaphysical tone than it had previously experienced, particularly in light of Germany's dark Romanticism. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the Romantic era was the rejection of reason and intelligence in favor of feeling and intuition. Poe highlighted that didactic and philosophical elements did not have a place in art, both in his analytical convictions and his creative output. The setting of a romantic story is frequently a foreign place, at an obscure time in the past, or both. He created new universes to enable his audience to focus exclusively on the notions or environments that his work was packed with so that no parallels to modern themes would divert their attention.

Edgar Allan Poe was among the most prominent writers of the 20th century, and his influence on western civilization and modern literature can still be felt today. Poe, a literary pioneer of his day, drew from his terrifying personal experiences to create his distinct literary works and writing style. By introducing a range of novel perspectives, techniques, and ingredients, he transformed storytelling. He then used these innovations to create absurd or humorous stories that audiences still find interesting today. Poe's writing served as an inspiration to other writers and sparked the imaginations of readers with anything from smart detectives to terrifying creatures. Poe's difficult and unfortunate circumstances all had an impact on his depressing and macabre style, which is still revered and significant today.