How Does Edgar Allan Poe's Life Affect His Writing

In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” he illustrates his fear of death. As Poe was writing “The Raven” his beloved wife Virginia was dying. Virginia is represented

In Edgar Allan Poe's lifetime and today, critics think that there are striking similarities between what Poe lived and what he wrote. His melancholy, often-depressing stories are thought to reflect his feelings. There is truth to this, although his entire life was not miserable. In fact, in some of his poems, the good characters are modeled after him. Edgar Allan Poe's writing was affected by many things in his life, including his turbulent childhood, his poverty, and his many tragic losses.

Introduced by tragedies early in his life, Edgar Allan Poe became one of the most successful writers, poets, and storytellers to ever live. Edgar Allan Poe had the intelligence to do anything he wanted to do, however, the pain of losing his loved ones always seemed to drive him towards a pen and paper. His emotions never failed to show through his writings, which helped the story line touch the readers. Poe became very close to several different women but each would die shortly after he came to love them. This only pushed him to write more emotionally. Poe had a natural talent for putting his real life experiences into a fictional story and making it seem as if it were really happening.

Poe’s personal life impacted his writing because he does drink and he is a lonely and mad man and he think’s then writes about death. His book’s are basically his journals. His whole life is about death and loneliness. He tries to escape his sad miserable life by drinking which then turned him into a mad man.

“The Cat, I remember, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house. “ Is a quote from Edgar Allen Poe’s story, The Black Cat. All of the stories/ poems he has written relate to his life in a lot of ways. Examples of such could be love, alcohol, and madness.

Another one of the most famous authors, Edgar Allan Poe, like Richard Connell his background has greatly impacted his writing. January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts Edgar Allan Poe was born to parents with careers with acting, and who unfortunately died when he was three years old. Being raised by John and Frances Allan he was their foster child, at the time they lived in Richmond, Virginia. John was a tobacco exported and Poe was sent to the best boarding schools and then went to the University of Virginia. He academically advanced, but soon was encouraged to leave after one year due to debt. This was because his foster father John, didn’t pay Poe’s debts of gambling (“Edgar Allan Poe”). Poe fell into a great deal of debt and sorrow from

The poem "The Raven" written by Edgar Allan Poe is one of Poe’s most famous poems, renowned for its gothic and melodramatic qualities. Poe uses literally devices to create a mood that pulls you into his world and symbolism that keeps your mind engulfed so that you feel every spine chilling detail you read. The title “The Raven” is a symbolism for a protagonist’s tormenting memories of a deceased woman named Lenore. Lenore’s premature death is the main focus of the narrator’s obsessive thoughts, even when he tries to repress his memories of her, he constantly reverts back her untimely death. On a “bleak December nigh” a raven appears on his window; the raven serves as the central symbol for the grief and memories of Lenore.

An author’s life can impact their writing drastically. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing had certainly been impacted by his life. Poe was born by his mother, Eliza Poe, in 1809. However, his alcoholic father, David Poe Jr., had left him. His mother later died of Tuberculosis when he was still young. Although he had joined the Allan Family, this absence of his parents brought him to be lonely. His foster father, John Allan, raised Poe as if he was his own, but Poe and his foster father tended to argue as Poe became to disrespect him. This brought John a negative outlook on Poe. His father’s doubt made him become stressed and miserable. Poe left his family to become a poet in Boston. He did not make much money

    One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous pieces is ‘The Raven.” “The inspiration to Poe's darkest and most well known poem, written in 1845, was a real raven that was the beloved pet of the writer Charles Dickens who named it Grip” (www.oswego.edu). Although literally, this poem seems that it is about a bird, if you dig deeper, you will realize that it is about a love that is not real. This “woman” Poe talks about is referenced for the first time in the line, “For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.” He uses repetition throughout the poem to talk about Lenore, a fictional character.

Poe has written multiple short stories and poems, he's actually known for only a couple of his works. Poe many unexpected tragedies and shortcomings, these shortcoming greatly influenced his life and his works. He wasn’t as famous during his life than compared to present day. The mysterious death is what most believe that brought into the peoples’ eyes. Through the use of many different literature elements, create a dark gothic feel, sublime moments which easily manipulated the readers as they read his books.

There were many ways in which Poe’s personal life impacted his writing. In fact, these reasons are the explanation for why Poe’s writing style is mysterious and dark and depressing. His writing style is because there was the death of his mother and foster mother, his love for his beloved wife Virginia, also his anxiety and paranoia for the outcome of death.

This poem is a very dark and sad work of literature, there are many instances that the reader must read between the lines and know some background information on Poe before they can really understand what is taking place. Everytime Poe says the name Lenore he is referring to his wife, who passed away from tuberculosis. This was one of the motivators to Poe’s dark and somewhat frightening poems and his other works of literature. In The Raven he sees a spirit in the form of a raven sent to him by the devil, but when Poe first hears and knock on his door, he just thinks it is someone coming to take his life. He is excited by the fear of his life being taken because once he dies he can then see his sweet Lenore again.

Edgar Allan Poe’s horrible, sad early life influenced his writing. When he was only two years old Edgar’s dad left him and the rest of his family. Soon after that Edgars sick mom began coughing up blood and died leaving Edgar alone and orphaned. Edgar was separated from his siblings and raised by his foster parents. One, his step father, John Allan, hated him. All of these horrible tragedies in his early life contributed to him becoming an writer of scary poems including horror and hate.

Time and time again Edgar Allan Poe has captured the imagination and interest of readers from around the world and every generation with his short stories and poems. The creativity that he once instilled has led to the creation of diverse literary genres, earning him the nickname "Father of the Detective Story" among other distinctions. His life, however, has become a bit of mystery itself where the distinction between fact and fiction has become hazy significantly since his death. In order to understand Poe’s writing’s you first must understand the life events that shaped him and influenced his style of writing, thus to see how Poe influenced the world of theater.