Wanna get out of WEST POINT? Here's how Edgar Allen Poe did it!

[Brutuskend]

Q: Did Edgar Allen Poe really get out kicked out of West Point for showing up on the parade ground stark naked?

A: Doubt it. His 1831 discharge lists "gross neglect of duty." Story was that Parade uniform was announced as "white belts and gloves, under arms." So Poe allegedly followed instructions precisely.

 

[Brutuskend]

No Poe or history buffs out tonight huh?

 

[Brutuskend]

No one even remotely interested huh?

OK I get it...no one here knows who Poe was....never mind.

 

[Ameesh]

i dont really care for poe, a little dark for my tastes but i do like the one called annabelle?


as for westpoint i couldnt care less, i just thought id post something in your thread cause it was soo empty.

 

[Brutuskend]

Thanks

 

[gopunk]

so he wore nothing but white belts and gloves?

 

[Brutuskend]

Under his arms....

 

[pyonir]

I really enjoy reading Poe. Have his 'complete collection' from Barnes and Noble.

 

[burnedout]

Interesting information. I knew Poe had attended West Point but wasn't aware of the circumstances surrounding his dismissal.

Anyway, in my opinion, Poe was a literary genius.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i didn't know Poe was in west point but i do like to read his short stories.

 

[Brutuskend]

Another interesting bit of Poe history I read LONG ago.

His mother was pronounced dead and subsequently buried in a crypt. Shortly afterwards grave robbers opened the crypt to do what grave robbers do, and she sat up scaring the CRAP out of the grave robbers!!

As was not unheard of at the time, she had been buried alive!!

BTW: This all happened before he was born. Think this may have had something to do with his macabre writing?

 

[DaiShan]

I thought his wealthy step-father bought his way out of millitary servitude?

 

[Brutuskend]

Temporarily reconciled, Allan secured Poe's release from the army and his appointment to West Point but refused to provide financial support. After 6 months Poe apparently contrived to be dismissed from West Point for disobedience of orders. His fellow cadets, however, contributed the funds for the publication of Poems by Edgar A. Poe...Second Edition (1831), actually a third edition--after Tamerlane and Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829). This volume contained the famous To Helen and Israfel, poems that show the restraint and the calculated musical effects of language that were to characterize his poetry.

Taken from this site.