长期以来，人们一直以为爱伦·坡是怪诞小说和唯美主义文学的奠基人之一，其实，早在１９世纪初期他已奏出了现代主义的先声。他在作品中运用非理性主义的诊断法，透视出了被荒谬现实所扭曲的人格：他们的孤寂、恐惧、烦恼、绝望等心理意识，恰恰是２０世纪现代主义作家笔下的“现代人”精神病综合症的病兆。因而把坡的作品放在现代主义的范畴下加以分析，探讨它们之间的联系便显得尤为必要 For a long time, people always thought that Allan Poe was one of the founders of grotesque novels and aesthetic literature. In fact, he had already made the first impression of modernism as early as the early 19th century. He used the irrationalist dialectics in his works to visualize the personality distorted by absurd reality: their psychological awareness of loneliness, fear, worry, despair is precisely the “modern” psychosis of modern 20th century writers Symptoms of the syndrome. Therefore, it is especially necessary to put the works of Poetry under the category of Modernism and analyze the connection between them