Influences In Edgar Allan Poe's Life

Edgar Allan Poe, born in 1809, is a critic, mystery and short story writer, but most importantly a poet. Edgar’s troubled life greatly influenced his works. As a young boy, Edgar loved to compose poems for his loved ones. But as he grew older, Edgar started to experience pains and tragedies in life, causing him to abuse on opium and alcohol. These were scenes behind the years of Edgar’s dark writings.

Edgar Allan Poe is born on January 19, 1809, and the son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Joe, Jr, an actor from Baltimore. Edgar Allan Poe has a background that not many people experience in their lives. His background is one of many writers that goes through tradjic time. According to Poe Museum(2017) Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, but within his first three years both of his parents died. He was then taken in by two other guardians, Frances Valentine Allan and John Allan, a wealthy tobacco merchant. Poe’s brother and sister were living with other families at this time (p.1). However, in 2011 Augustyn claimed that “He was later taken to Scotland and England (1815-20), where he was given a classical education that was continued in Richmond” (p. 100).

Struggling with debt, David Poe turned to the drink, left his wife, and died of Tuberculosis shortly thereafter in 1811. The same year, Edgar Poe lost his mother to the same disease as his father. A wealthy Richmond family named the Allan 's took Poe in and raised him as their own (although never formally adopting him). As a young child, Poe enjoyed a spoiled life and expensive education, learning many languages and reading literature from an early age. According to his teachers and tudors, Poe excelled in literature of every kind. While living in England for five years, he looked to a schoolmate’s mother named Jane Stanton for love (Meltzer 27). Her death by tuberculosis, devastated a young Poe who became unhappy and depressed. At sixteen, Poe attended the University of Virginia where he studied the modern and ancient languages of French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin (Meltzer 34). After a year, however, Poe’s relationship with his foster parent, John Allan, had quickly decayed. Poe gambled and wasted Allan’s money while in school. After returning to his home, Poe severed ties with Allan completely by leaving the Allan home permanently while Allan promised never to finance Poe or his education again. Poe left, alone, for his birth city, Boston. The absence of loving parental figures characterized many of Poe’s future writings.

Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 to David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins - both of whom died before their son was three. Edgar went to live in Richmond, Virginia with John Allan, a wealthy tradesman, while his

Poe and his foster mother, Frances Allan, grew closer and developed a strong bond, but by 1829 she died of Tuberculosis. His grief caused him to leave his military post to visit her funeral. Two years later, Poe’s older brother also died of Tuberculosis. Years later in his life Poe gets secretly married to his cousin named Virginia.

He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point but was soon expelled for lack of obedience. Again, he had nowhere else to turn. Poe remembered having an aunt in Alabama and soon made plans to live with her. In moving in, he became smitten with his cousin, Virginia. Virginia was many a number of years younger than Poe but fell madly in love with one another.

During his first year at the University Poe found himself with large gambling debts after using Allan’s money. After Poe realized that the money John allan had given him wasn't enough he tried to gamble and meet the gap in school payments. After gambling to make up the difference for school, Poe realized that he was in debt and after asking the Allans for financial help Poe found he argued with the allans a lot more than usual . Poe went to the United states military academy of west point however he was dismissed before taking a degree. Poes adventures in schooling and gambling eventually pulled his life further away from the Allans.

Since birth, Edgar Allan Poe faced the harsh realities of life. After his father left the family and Poe’s mother passed away when he was merely three, Poe was forced to move from his home, Massachusetts, to another family in Virginia. Later, Poe gambled to earn enough money to join the University of Virginia, but when he returned home his fiancee was engaged to marry his neighbor. Poe joined military school but was kicked out, and after married his cousin who died eleven years later. These traumatic events shaped Poe as a man and writer, and caused his macabre writing style.

It is apparent to the reader that the characters in Poe's short stories and poems have connections to people in his life. Edgar Allan Poe used a unique, dark, and mysterious way of writing to convey meaning in his stories because of those connections. Nearly all of Poe’s writings ended in tragedy, but they all did not begin that way. Poe was an inspiration

However, because there was conflict over his literary ambitions, Poe received very little financial support from John Allan. During this time. Poe started to gamble and had created for himself a lot of gambling debt, that John Allan refused to help him with and Poe was unable to return to school. Edgar Allan Poe published a Volume of poems, Tamerlane, and other poems just before he enlisted in the Army in 1827 and within two years of joining became a U.S.Amy Sergeant Major. Edgar Allan Poe decides to leave the Army and attend West Point. While he was a student at West Point, he published a second volume, “AL Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems”. Edgar Allan Poe was physically weaker and older than many of his peers. He often felt uncomfortable and out of place, so he spent most of his time studying romantic poets. He played pranks on his peers which led him to be dismissed from school in

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 was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 1809. His father David Poe Jr. left the family early into his adolescence and his mother Eliza Poe died of tuberculosis when Edgar was three years old. Separated from his siblings William and Rosalie Poe, went to live on a farm with John and Frances Allan, a successful couple in the tobacco industry in Richmond, Virginia. Edgar and Frances seemed to get along really well, but Poe never seemed to bond with John. He preferred to write rather than earn money, Poe was known to write on John's business papers.When Edgar was waiting for his answer for West Point he lived with his grandmother and his aunt Mrs. Clemm. He finally got his answer and was able to attend West point as a cadet. His time there

As many litterateurs will be quick to point out, there are many connections between the author’s life and his resulting works. However, a common false theory among persons is that Poe’s works are a total indirect biography of his life. By skimming samples of a few of his works, one can easily evince that this speculation is fallacious.

Poe’s family lived in Boston, Massachusetts where his parents were professional actors. When Poe was three, his parents passed on, and he was raised as a foster child in Virginia (Hester and Segir 175). His foster parents were John and Frances, who sold tobacco. Poe’s foster parents took him to the top boarding school in Chelsea until summer season in 1817 (Hester and Segir 175). Later on, he joined Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School located in Stoke Newington, then a district school, which was a few miles away from his house. In 1826, Poe joined the University of Virginia. Although Poe was talented academically, he was forced to drop out of college when his foster parents were unable to pay his tuition fees (Flores 211). In school, Poe had a gambling problem which made his relationship with his foster parent John to deteriorate. Poe was forced to move to Boston in 1827 where he joined the United States Army. There he began his first collection of poems titled “Tamerlane, and other poems” which he managed to publish the same year. So, due to his passion for poems, Poe managed to publish another series of his poem titled “Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and minor poems” (Flores 211). Both of the books did not do well in the market and neither did he get public commendations as he expected. However, his service in the Military saw him enrolled at the United States Military Academy to continue with his education. Poe did not have

Poe had a childhood just like anyone else but that doesn’t mean it was a good one. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. HIs biological parents were professional actors. His mother passed away due to tuberculosis shortly after his father walked out on the family. (poets.org) Him and his siblings were orphaned after finding out that their father had passed away the same way their mother did. Poe was put into foster care and was separated from his siblings. His foster parents were John and Frances Allan who lived in Richmond,