Something Unexpected by Edgar Allan Poe Poe wrote several stories about being buried alive, with "The Untimely Burial" and "The Cask of Amontillado" being the most popular. Edgar Allan Poe "was one of the seminal American poets and short story writers of the nineteenth century", he was an influencer for writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jules Verne. Poe lost both parents as a child and grew up with an adoptive family and also lost his adoptive mother early on. He lost many of his loved ones throughout his life, including his wife, shortly after he got married. All these losses had a significant effect on him and influenced his stories ("Edgar Allan Poe - Biography"). “The Barrel of Amontillado is a well-known literary piece by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's many losses are said to have influenced many of his short stories in some way. The dramatic irony in Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” is a strong feature of his poetry and reflects the poet's personal feeling about isolation in death. We the readers are exposed to dramatic irony when we are shown Montresor's plans for Fortunato. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" is a story of revenge on the outside, but on the inside it is something deeper. His stories are dark and sometimes, as in “The Cask of Amontillado,” deadly. Poe's main goal in “The Cask of Amontillado” is revenge, but when examined more closely, the irony present foreshadows the end result for Fortunato. In “The Barrel of Amontillado” Montresor plans to take revenge on Fortunato for “the thousand injuries”. Revenge leads to Fortunato's burial alive, the true reasoning remains a mystery, but this story proves that things you do can always come back... middle of paper... OHost. Network. March 22, 2014."revenge." Merriam Webster. Merriam-Webster and Web. March 26, 2014. Schilb, John and John Clifford. "Thematic clusters of literature". Making Discussions About Literature: A Compact Guide and Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2005. 273-279. Print."Spanish wines, Production process in the cellars of Bodegas Robles." Spanish wines, production process in the cellars of Bodegas Robles. Np, nd Web. 26 March 2014. The editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica. "dramatic irony (literature)." Encyclopedia Britannica online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 20 March 2014. "verbal irony." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com and Web. March 20. 2014.