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   The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

   Poe also uses teeth as a symbol. ... Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography.
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   Edgar Allan Poe and music

   The song "The Casket of Roderick Usher" by Finch references the character from "The Fall of the House of Usher" on the album Say Hello to Sunshine (2005) and the song "Reduced to Teeth" would appear to be a reference to "Berenice." ... Edgar Allan Poe
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   Hop-Frog

   Poe often used teeth as a sign of mortality, as in lips writhing about the teeth of the mesmerized man in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" and the obsession over teeth in "Berenice". ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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   Metzengerstein

   He often used teeth as a sign of mortality, as in lips writhing about the teeth of the mesmerized man in "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", the sound of grating teeth in "Hop-Frog", and the obsession over teeth in "Berenice". ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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   Berenice (short story)

   As the narrator looks at the box which he may subconsciously know contains his cousin's teeth, he asks himself, "Why... did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end, and the blood of my body become congealed within my veins?" ... Teeth are used symbolically in many of Poe's stories to symbolize mortality.
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   The Man That Was Used Up

   "The Man That Was Used Up," sometimes subtitled "A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign," is a short story and satire by Edgar Allan Poe. ... Limbs are screwed on, a wig, glass eye, and false teeth and a tongue until the man himself stands "whole."
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   The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

   (Even the teeth of the natives are black.) ... "A Brief Biography" in A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe.
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   The Pit and the Pendulum

   Such anxiety is ironic to the reader, who knows of the narrator's implicit survival: the text refers to the black-robed judges having teeth "whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words", showing that he himself is writing the story after the events have happened. ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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   The Cask of Amontillado

   Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family slogan Nemo me impune lacessit from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in The Last of the Mohicans (1826). ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe
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    The Business Man

    Like "The Man That Was Used Up", another of Poe's satires, this man is essentially hollow and worthless. ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,
• Edgar Allan Poe and music,
• Hop-Frog,
• Metzengerstein,
• Berenice (short story),
• The Man That Was Used Up,
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,
• The Pit and the Pendulum,
• The Cask of Amontillado,
• The Business Man