The geology of the Gulf of Mexico has been reviewed by numerous authors. Two syntheses stand out. Grover Murray's 1961Geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Province of North America summarized classic mid-20th century stratigraphic and structural understanding of the basin.
Edgar Allan Poe is known for his awesomely gruesome short stories like The Black Cat and The Fall of the House of Usher, and for his poems like The Raven and Annabel Lee.
âThe Ravenâ is Edgar Allan Poeâs most famous poem, not only because of its immediate and continued popularity but also because Poe wrote âThe Philosophy of Composition,â an essay reconstructing the step-by-step process of how he composed the poem as if it were a precise mathematical problem.here is also the dramatic juxtaposition of the black talking bird perched on the white bust of Pallas over the chamber door, the velvet cushion on which the narrator sits facing the raven, and the lamplight throwing shadows over the narratorâs soul âfloating on the floor,â at the frenzied climax of the poem.