Learning Experience :Jay Mehta on E. A.Poe's short stories

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            Recently we had guest lecture in our English Department MKBU.  From 18th to 22september we have Dr. Jay Mehta Sir’s lecture on Edger Allen Poe’s short stories. 


              Here, I want to share my experience of learning under him. Basically his subject was Edger Allen’s Short story, which is totally different from Poetic. But, he teach us Poe with use of various examples of poems. His style of beginning of class is an amazing, it catches the attention of everyone in class. In this four days, He has talked about Poe’s  short stories like…


1) The Tell Tale Heart
2) The Black Cat
3) The Fall of the House of Usher
4) The Cask of Amontillado
5) The Purloined Letter
6) The Gold Bug

                 Poe is a famous for his horror, terror, fear, bloodshed, burying lie, macabre and various psychological abnormalities. Poe is master of ‘Tales of  mystery and imagination’. 

 Two types of short story he writes :
1.Tales of horror and terror. 
2.Tales of ratiocination. 

                Element of Fear is in center of all the stories. Psychological analysis with Freud’s theories like over consciousness, OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, PS- Paranoid Schizophrenia, sadism and machoism, Neurosis, Psychosis, Freudian slip means…’It’s never slip of tongue  it’s slip of mind, and many other things like weakness and grey area of human mind .

Characteristics of Poe's Short stories:

-Writer of Diction language
-Autobiographical elements in his writing
- Great creator of suspense in writing
- Inner conflict in characterization
- Balance in head and heart
- He brings the poetic in short stories
- Death and darkness of human mind is major theme 
- Tone of melancholy and sadness
- Singularity of effect
- A skillful artist 

                 And Last Session on Poems and Poets of Gujarati/Hindi  Literature.
Normally He starts his session with reciting poetic lines and writing a quote on board. On the very first day he wrote on board that, ‘ The theories we believe, we call them facts and the facts we disbelieve, we call them theories.’ And then he entered in talk about Father of detective stories ( Edger Allen Poe). And give  A comparative psychological  exploration of selected stories of Poe.

            So This session was very helpful for us.I want to say thank you Our Head of the Department Dr. Dilip Barad Sir for inviting Guest lecturer like Dr.Jay Mehta sir.

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