Edgar Allen Poe

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repeated substance abuse and the loss of the women he loved, are evident in the stories that he wrote. Edgar Allan Poe Pg.1 On January 29, 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 ...

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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 ...

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