Final Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe are in some ways similar, but most people think of them as polar opposites. Emerson was a profound thinker, pondering the relationship between man and God, while Poe was an alcoholic, who many believe destroyed his brain and ruined his thinking apparatus and that was why, he had feelings of absurdity and morbidity in his poems. Poe always had a sense or some kind of feeling of darkness or evil in his works. For example, in The Raven, the narrator finds himself slowly losing his mind after a bird flies into his chamber and constantly repeats one word. This is the absurdity many people believe to have pondered Poe. Poe had a rough life from an early age, which is probably why he picked up