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A 7 page paper which examines how Edgar Allan Poe’s life affected his writings. Among the works considered include “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Raven.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: TG15_TGpoelife.rtf
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him at an early age and dictated the course of Poes all too brief life. Because little is known about Poe the man, historians and literary scholars collectively search
for clues in his works so as to satisfactorily answer the question: How did Edgar Allan Poes life affect and influence his writings? It becomes immediately apparent that Poes
life was frequently overshadowed by the specter of death of those closest to him. With every death, it was as if something within Poe died as well, as he
struggled under the heavy burden of a guilty conscience. He tried to numb his pain by drowning his sorrows in alcohol, but that offered only fleeting comfort. Writing,
for Poe, did not simply provide solace but was a way for him to exorcise his inner demons. Edgar Allan Poes literary art was not abstract; it was a
chillingly realistic representation of the artist and his suffering. Edgar Allan Poe was born to actors Elizabeth and David Poe, Jr. on January 19, 1809 in Boston. His father
deserted the family soon afterwards, and Poe developed a deep emotional attachment to his beloved mother, whose premature death in 1811 at the age of 24 left her son with
deep emotional wounds that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of his biographers contends,
"She became... the prototype of all the absent yet unforgettable women in his poetry and fiction, those encrypted yet deathless ladies who excited both dread and longing" (Kennedy 533).
Poes father never re-established contact and his whereabouts remain a mystery. Therefore, he became the foster son of a prosperous Virginia merchant named John Allan and his wife Frances,
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