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A 6 page essay that examines the life of Edgar Allen Poe and how his work may have been influenced by the death of his mother and the early death of his wife Virginia. The writer attributes the morbid and macabre nature of Poe's tales to this influence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Proposed: To write a 6-page essay that examines the life of Edgar Allen Poe and how his work may have been influenced psychologically by the death of his mother and
the early death of his wife Virginia. The writer attributes the morbid and macabre nature of Poes tales to this influence. ______________ Edgar Allen Poe was born on January
19, 1809 to two struggling actors, David and Elizabeth Poe (Life and death). Poes father died first, at the age of 36, and his mother died of tuberculosis when Poe
was just two years of age. She was 24. Poe was adopted by John and Frances Allen of Richmond, Virginia (Life and death). As this indicates, one of Poes first
experiences was the loss of his mother to illness. The trauma of this loss was repeated when his young wife Virginia also died of tuberculosis at the age of 24
(Life and death). While Virginia died in 1847, tuberculosis is a progressive disease and her struggle with it was a long, drawn-out process. Undoubtedly Poe was anticipating her death long
before it occurred. Examination of several of his works demonstrates how Poe was deeply affected psychologically by these losses. His work shows someone who is haunted by the specter of
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss of his mother. In
numerous instances in Poes work, both his short fiction and his poems, one encounters not only a sense of grief, but also one of foreboding. For example, in the short
story, The Fall of the House of Usher, the unnamed narrator answer to the call of an old friend, Roderick Usher, and visits his home. Usher is suffering from a
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