The Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe

As a child, Poe would watch his mother perform on stage every night. He would be sitting front row watching the beautiful actress commit suicide every night due to her role as Juliet from Shakespeare's famous play. After the curtains closed, Poe’s mother would take young Edgar and go on with her evening (Edgar Allan Poe). Now, as an impressionable young child, Poe would see his mother die on stage and then see her “come back to life”. This led to Poe’s fascination with death. In “The Raven”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”, death is the main component. In “The Raven”, Poe talks about a man who was going mad while trying to forget his love who had just died. The fact that this woman is dead contributes to Poe’s theme of death. Now, this is not the only piece of literature that has to do with a man’s love dying, in the poem “Annabel Lee” Poe

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.

Poe lost his loved ones which made him very depressed. Poe lost his mother when he was very young and his father left him when he was 1 year old. His mother died from the horrible disease tuberculosis. Poe then got a new home with the Allen family a caring family sometimes. Poe’s step mother loved him, but his father did not like him so much as he was very mean to Edgar. Poe’s stepmother sadly died just like his biological mother. Edgar Poe finally moved in with family, his cousin Virginia and aunt to be precise. He fell in love with Virginia and married her he loved her so much, but the time he had her wasn't enough. Virginia died of the same exact

Poe’s childhood trauma of experiencing the death of a loved one carried far into his life – the trauma of experiencing both his birth and foster mothers deaths was later enforced by the death of his wife. Poe’s birth mother, Elizabeth Poe, died when he was young, leaving him to grow up without knowing his real mother. In Poe’s foster family, he had a close relationship with his foster mother, Frances Allan, and he was devastated by the notice of her sudden death. The absence, and loss, of a mother figure throughout Poe’s lifetime contributed to his feelings of loneliness and abandonment. Additionally, Poe’s foster father disregarded his late wife’s request to wait for Poe to return home from military academy for the funeral. Poe returned home to find that his foster mother was instead prematurely buried. The recurring theme of being buried alive is prominent in many of Poe’s works. Eighteen years later, Poe’s wife, Virginia Clemm, died of tuberculosis, furthered the feelings he felt throughout his life due to the death of his mothers. He was especially devastated after Clemm’s death because of their close emotional connection.

"In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed." This quote by Edgar Allan Poe describes his obscure works which have been discussed and criticized in great detail for many years to come. Some readers believe that his works are too dark and eccentric maybe even deathly. Others believe his works to be masterpieces. However, one thing that is not up for debate is the fact that Edgar Allan Poe is a literary genius. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the ratiocinative story and the amateur sleuth and leading contributor to the gothic genre, is the greatest author of the mid-nineteenth century.

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.

The year 1846 marked the beginning of Poe’s decline. He was involved in personal scandals with two female literary “groupies”. When Virginia Poe died in 1947, Poe collapsed. He was found unconscious on a Baltimore street in 1949. A brief obituary reported that Poe had died of “congestion of the brain” (Regan 3). Poe’s turbulent childhood, troubled mid-life, unusual relationships, and hardships were reflected in his various works.

Edgar Allan Poe manifested his life into what he wrote; the melancholic effects from living in poverty and his beloved wife dying, created hints of somberness that emanates throughout his work. Poe was an accomplished writer of many works such as The Tell Tale Heart and The pit and The Pendulum. Poe’s life pushed him to the limits of sanity as well as advancing his creative thinking processes to the fullest. Throughout the years of his young adult life, he suffered hardships that would shape the rest of his career as a promising writer.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most mysterious authors that the world of writing has known. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives".(Bloom 7 ). Many of Poe’s works can be related back to his life. Poe had many problems such as psychological illness, alcohol addiction, and gambling issues. There is also the fact that Poe’s life was full of heart aches such as the fact that everyone that Poe would grow to love would leave him or die. Since Poe’s works are so closely related to his life or inspired by his life struggles one can correctly assume

Edgar Allan Poe has always been known for his depressing and sad writings. I have no doubt that these feelings would follow him into the present day. Poe didn’t have a good family life growing up. His parents were both absent in his childhood, and he was separated from his brother and sister to go off and live with John and Frances Valentine Allan. Poe was always a very talented poet growing up, but his literary passions were not supported by the household he lived in. Being suppressed as a child probably didn’t help his mental health nor did it help to cope with day-to-day life. As a young adult, Poe went to the University of Virginia but he could not afford to pay the

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before (“The Raven”).” Edgar Allan Poe was a dreamer, a writer, a poet, and a critic, but what made him stand out from others was how he dared to be different. Within his writing, he covers the darkness of the human mind and psyche, death, grotesque and diabolical concepts, and many other facets of the macabre. During Poe’s time, these ideas and themes were not well-received and were considered by others to be outlandish or even vulgar. Despite these negative opinions of his writing, Edgar Allan Poe was a daring author who wrote about subjects that had not been covered in his time and influenced many major authors after him, thus greatly affecting American literature.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of all time. His writing is dark and sinister. He wrote of death, murder, psychosis, and obsession. One could only imagine what would bring a person to write such morbid stories. Perhaps, it may be attributed to Poe’s childhood, a past that was sad and far from average. Both of his parents died when he was only three years of age (Shelley). The death of his parents caused a separation from his siblings and he moved to live with his relatives (Shelley). In later years, Poe endured poverty and the loss of his wife-to-be to another man (Clark). Possibly, without those troubling experiences, Poe couldn’t have imagined such eerie and enthralling tales. Some of his most

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet of the romanticism era who has left an immense influence on the literary studies of classrooms today. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 and he died at the age of 40 on October 7, 1849. At eighteen Poe already had a slim volume of verse published while in the U.S. army and he wrote his very last famous piece of work after recovering from an illness and his wife’s death in 1848. He wrote poetry on and off from 1827 to 1848. Edgar Allan Poe’s parents had a definitive impact on his work. The death of his mother at a very young age shows in his poetry because he is in search of a woman adequate to his mother’s memory. Also affecting Edgar’s literature, his father abandoned his family around the time of his mother’s death and died shortly after. Edgar was then taken into the Allen family in Richmond,

Edgar Allan Poe had married his fourteen year-old cousin, whom died ten years later at the age of twenty four, from Tuberculosis (Ljungquist N.P.). After Virginia died, Poe became lost, alcoholic, drug addicted, and debauchery (Szumski 20). “Under the adroit cover of the special mechanism he had constructed, Poe could unveil his inner, introverted self

Edgar Allan Poe once said, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” A difficult childhood and the many deaths he experienced are reflected in Poe’s stories and poems. Edgar Allan Poe, a gothic horror author, led a controversial life which eventually led to his mysterious death.