How Edgar Allen Poe’s Work Relates To His Life When people have negative experiences in life, many need to express their feelings about them. Some may choose writing as their outlet of choice. One writer who expressed their feelings about certain subjects in their life through writing was Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe’s life was dark and he chose to write about his problems and sorrows through short stories and poems. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories relate to his life and include the themes of madness and paranoia, revenge, and alcohol abuse. Paranoia And Madness Poe often wrote about paranoia and madness in his stories and poems. Poe experienced madness in real life. After the death of his wife, Poe went mad and only lived for another …show more content…
Poe experienced the craving for revenge in real life. After being sent to college by his father, John Allan, Poe realized that he didn’t have nearly enough money to pay for anything, even though his father was completely able to give him the amount he needed. Poe ended up trying to gambling to raise money and ended up delving so deep into debt that he was burning his furniture to keep warm by the end of the first term. Poe was very angry with his father for not providing him with enough money and wanted revenge upon him. Sadly for Poe, he never granted revenge upon his father. This is most likely why he wrote stories about characters getting revenge on others. The stories of “The Tell Tale Heart,” and “The Cask Of The Amontillado,” are stories written by Poe that relate to revenge. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” Poe writes about a person that kills an old man. His reason for doing so is because of the old man’s eye which he describes as the “eye of a vulture.” The person ended up killing the old man due to him wanting revenge on the “vulture” eye. Poe most likely wrote about this tale of a man killing another older man, due to him wanting revenge on his father. Additional information from the story that strengthens this connection is that the old man is wealthy, evident by the narrator saying that he had no desire for his gold, just like his father. This story symbolizes Poe’s desire to get revenge upon or to even …show more content…
Poe definitely abused alcohol within his lifetime. During the final days of Poe’s life, he was found intoxicated in a bar. After this, he was sent to Washington College Hospital. He died there surrounded by strangers. His fiancee and mother-in-law only found out about what happened when they read about his death in newspapers. Poe’s abuse of alcohol led him to drink himself to death in a bar or at least end up in a bar where is intoxication led him to die by other means. The stories, “The Black Cat,” and, “The Cask Of The Amontillado,” written by Poe, are about the subject of alcohol abuse. In “The Black Cat,” Poe writes about a narrator who used to love animals. In the story, he is now going insane and abusing all of them along with his wife. The narrator mentions that he suffers from “intemperance,” or alcoholism, and that this caused him to, “offer,” his wife, “personal violence,” meaning that he abused her and that he “not only neglected, but ill-used,” his pets. Since the narrator was drinking, these events can be attributed to his alcoholism. “The Black Cat” makes a statement about why drinking can cause harm to others besides yourself by showing that it can cause people to abuse others. “The Cask Of The Amontillado,” also is centered around the theme of alcohol abuse. In, “The Cask Of The Amontillado,” the narrator, Montresor, lures another character, Fortunato, into his catacombs where he then bricks him up in a wall.
Edgar Allan Poe, the remarkable, 19th century writer, who had an appalling life. Poe became extremely famous for his terrifying works of literature after he passed away, but it was Poe’s tragic life that influenced his writing(Edgar Allan Poe). From childhood all the way to adulthood, Poe experienced terrible things in his life that would mentally scar any person. This is shown in three of his most famous writings by having those experiences that he encountered from childhood to adulthood reflect on the different qualities that are shown in works of literature.
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.
Even though Poe was completely addicted to alcohol, many times, he tried very hard to fight against his alcoholism. Right after his first long drinking experience, during college, he tried to stay away from it (Black, Jamee A. 3). His drinking times were intermittent and he stayed abstain from alcohol for months in some of those periods (Poe, Drugs and Alcohol 8). Promises were made and repeatedly times he said that would never drink again. As one side of Poe tells him that he should stop with alcohol, the other side tells that he should drink to relief his emotional pains and usually he followed this last side once is a lot easier to deal with it (Black, Jamee A. 6). In 1847, Poe’s get extremely hard into drinking, one of the worse times during his whole life, after the death of his young wife Virginia (Hennelly, Mark M. 1). After this event he could stop drinking alcohol anymore (Poe, Drugs and Alcohol 14).
Edgar Allen Poe was one of the great writers of this world. He created several poems and short stories of a dark and dreary setting. His imagination was incredible. Edgar Allen Poe did not have a normal life. Bad luck and heart ach seemed to follow him until his death. His writing style was very different than other writers' style. His most famous
The life of Edgar Allan Poe is not a tale of ease. Poe’s life was full of personal and fiscal disaster. These disasters help to mold some of the most ominous and intellectually challenging poetry ever written. For the short duration of Poe’s life, he was seen as a literary critic rather than an author. To the modern generation his unbeknown status seems bafflingly inconceivable, considering his now acclaimed publications. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing was very much dictated by his life. The mournful tone of Edgar Allan Poe’s life created his literature; death and all his friends narrated Poe’s life. Edgar Allan Poe shows his life’s constant despair through his poetry and short story writings.
Edgar Allen Poe was a very troubled man throughout his life, but all these events affected his writing deeply and uniquely. Poe lost the people near and dear to his heart which of course made him very depressed. Poe was battling alcoholism during the middle years of his life, a hard battle for him to fight in his situation of poverty.
According to the CDC, over 88,000 people die every year due to the excessive use of alcohol in the United States. Now this proves that alcoholism is a very serious and common issue in our country. Poe’s death to this day has been thought of as a great mystery, most believing he died from either alcohol or rabies. According to several sources saying that Poe was sent to the hospital after being to drunk, not being able to tell doctors the names of his family members/where he lived, and the fact that his cat, Caterina, was proven to not have rabies, I believe he died from alcohol.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1890. He was an American romanticism author, poet, editor and literary critic. He studied languages at the University of Virginia and married his thirteen year old cousin. Poe having lived a troubled life and losing his parents to tuberculosis at a young age, wrote many sad and morbid stories containing themes such as death, murder, insanity, paranoia, sickness, and tragedy. “The Tell- Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” all contain some or all of these said themes.
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 often used depressed tones and imagery to create a dark kind of feeling to his work. The death of Edgar Allen Poe’s young wife put a bitter resentment in the writer. He felt like he was cursed and that the heavens stole his joy and claimed that the angel envied their happiness. Poe was accused of rumors and scandals his whole life, afflicted with depression, pinned down by phobias and horrific fantasies, and his writing reflects the madness in every lover’s heart. (Harris 60) In many of Edgar Allen Poe’s writings, he used gothic elements to express his pain and revealed the darker side of human nature.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”. A quote from one of Edgar Allan Poe’s more famous stories The Tell Tale Heart. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing is still famous to this day. Not only his writing but his life. He is known for having a difficult life and writing about it in a not so obvious way. Through all his poems and short stories there are little hints everywhere that relate to his life. Depression, insanity and Tuberculosis were all common topics from Poe’s writing that related to his life.
Substance abuse plays a role in more than one of Poe's works. In the black cat alcohol drives the narrator to rip out his cats eye with with a pen and then hang the cat in guilt of what he had done. The narrator was a kind hearted man who loved animals and would do nothing to hurt them until he started to drink. He became an angrier person, always getting enraged with the people and creatures around him and his personality changed for the worse. Substance abuse changed him and drove him to be a different person than he really was. After killing the cat he felt little to no remorse for the deed he had committed and went back to his drinking and partying.Eventually his drinking led him to kill his wife, substance abuse changed him into a
This essay will discuss the themes in Poe’s writing that mirror his personal life and, in addition, the fear and supernatural motivators for his characters. First, I will discuss Poe’s background and explore how he became best known as a poet for his tales of mystery and macabre.
Edgar Allan Poe’s life works are a reflection of who he is may it be crazy, depressing, or frightening. His background is what makes him a unique writer, all the horror he writes about is real and he has faced. He takes the main idea from his own life and adds details to describe how he feels making his story realistically horrific because it is real. Many authors just take ideas out of their brain which is great but writing book and poems from your own life, things that really happen is taking it to the next level making it exciting and
Edgar Allan Poe created many short stories that reflected the horrors and sadness in his life. Two short stories that were influenced by his past are “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Edgar Allan Poe lived a very depressing and sad life which influenced him to create a unique voice in his writings. While Edgar Allan Poe was little both of his parents died leaving Poe with a foster father to take care of him. He was able to attend college for only a couple years then had to drop out due to debt. His father was displeased and refused to pay his debts due to Poe's alcoholism and gambling problem. Many loved ones died in Edgar Allan Poe’s life contributing and helping create his dark stories. Poe struggled with depression and resulted into alcohol which is also seen in some of his writings. Edgar Allan Poe creates a unique voice in his short story by using setting to develop the conflict, common theme, and characterization.