Edgar Allan Poe Everyone Sees And Is Dark

When someone hears the name ‘’Edgar Allan Poe” they think of a poet, they think of his work, they think of his darkness. People can dismiss the fact that there is a reason behind his dark emotion, but if someone looks at his life they would understand why he wrote about his 'lost Lenore.' He has a persona around him that everyone sees, and is dark "the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction." (biography.com)
'Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second child, his other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie would grow up to teach writing at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of

Poe, heartbroken, lasted a few months in the Allan mansion because of increasing hostility towards his Godfather until Poe finally stormed out of the home with a mission to become a great poet and to find adventure. He accomplished the first objective by publishing his first book Tamerlane when he was at the young age of eighteen, and to achieve the second goal he enlisted in the United States Army. Two years later he heard that Frances Allan, the only mother he ever had, was dying of tuberculosis and wanted to see him before she died. By the time Poe returned to Richmond she had already been buried. Poe and Allan briefly reconciled, and Allan helped Poe go to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Before going to West Point, Poe published another volume of poetry. While there, Poe was offended to hear that Allan had remarried without telling him or even inviting him to the ceremony. Poe wrote to Allan detailing all the faults Allan had committed against him and threatened to get himself expelled from the academy. After only eight months at West Point Poe was thrown out, but he soon published yet another

He served as editor of Burton’s and then Graham’s magazines while continuing to sell articles to Alexander’s Weekly Messenger and other journals. In spite of his growing fame, Poe was still barely able to make a living. For the publication of his first book of short stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, he was only paid with twenty-five free copies of his book. He would soon become a champion for the cause of higher wages for writers as well as for an international copyright law. To change the face of the magazine industry, he proposed starting his own journal, but he failed to find the necessary funding.
In the face of poverty Poe was still able to find solace at home with his wife and mother-in-law, but tragedy struck in 1842 when Poe’s wife contracted tuberculosis, the disease that had already claimed Poe’s mother, brother, and foster mother.
Always in search of better opportunities, Poe moved to New York again in 1844 and introduced himself to the city by perpetrating a hoax. His “news story” of a balloon trip across the ocean caused a sensation, and the public rushed to read everything about it—until Poe revealed that he had fooled them