Poe
Edgar Allen Poe's life experiences, particularly his repeated substance abuse and the loss of the women he loved, are evident in the stories that he wrote. In 1845, Poe's most mystifying poem appeared, The Raven. This was a story that Poe wrote that helped us understand his feelings that were felt due to the loss of his wife(Double Day & Company). The words used to describe the raven in the story make the raven up to be death coming for him. The words such as "so faintly you cam tapping, tapping at my chamber door" show how the raven resembled death which took his wife away and will soon take him. Poe also described his heart ache by describing the ravens eyes as burning through his chest. Alcohol and drugs played a key role in the deep dark setting of this story. Also Poe had a fixation with the name Lanoro but nobody ever found out who she was, but men believe that it was Poe's secret lover after the death of his wife. In the poem Spirits Of The Dead Poe expresses his deepest feelings about his wife and the sense of loneliness he felt. In this poem the words "Thy soul shall find itself alone `Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone" shows how Poe feels his soul is lost and alone and the only thoughts he has is of his wife's gra
ve( Doubleday & Company). Poe also says that at times it seems like he can see the soul of his wife but when he gets close it disappears into thin air. This poem is as expressful as the poem Evening Star which talks about Poe seeing his wife's face in the heavens passing stars. Most of people believe that what Poe writes is just a collection of hallucinations and dreams. The reason that a lot of Poe's work is related to the death of his wife is because his marriage to her was one of the major high points of his life. In the poem To - - it seems that Poes peaks of the beauty of a bride on her wedding day and how she was so beautiful that it hurt her groom, these were feelings he felt on his wedding day. Pg. 2 The famous story The Black Cat ,Poe once again shows part of his many sides. In the story it talks about a man who is sick minded and is an alcoholic and take his frustration of the world out on his cat. The way that Poe is involved in this story is that he to was an alcoholic. Poe had allot of problems due to his drinking, he had lost jobs and lost friends and family members because of it. Although Poe didn't have any pets, he did had allot of frustrations built up in him and had a deep dark soul and used this brutal way of writing as a way of relieving some anger without putting anyone in harms way. Although Poe is known more for his many dark side, he also had a mild philosophical side to. This side of Poe is shown in the story Eureka( Blair Hornberger Stewart). In this story Poe attempted an analysis of the universe to Newtonian principles. Poe had believed that the universe had a mathematical beauty and precision in which one might catch a glimpse of the divine(Blair Hornberger Stewart). This thought of Poes' was o
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