Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

What is your story? Edgar Allan Poe was the author of numerous amounts of short stories and poems. He is one of the most unique and creative authors throughout history. His stories are all unique because he incorporates aspects of his rough life into the majority of his writings. He gets his ideas from his actual life and turns them into magnificent stories. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the article “Edgar Allan Poe” within the encyclopedia Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, it informs us about how his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe and father, David Poe Jr. were both professional actors. Growing up, Poe had to deal with many tragedies within his family. Even as he became an older gentleman, he

When he was three years old, his mother passed away of tuberculosis and at this point in his life, his father had already abandoned him. He was then adopted by John Allan and Frances Keeling Valentine Allan. Poe formed a good bond with Frances Allan, but struggled to form a good relationship with John Allan. In 1829, two years after joining the United States Army, he received news that Frances was ill of tuberculosis and she passed away before he could make it home. Then, in 1834, Allan passed away and in his will, he gave money to all his relatives except for Edgar. In the article “Edgar Allan Poe” within the encyclopedia “Authors and Artists for Young Adults,” it describes how in 1847, Poe’s wife, Virginia, passed away of tuberculosis, the same disease his mother passed away from. All throughout Poe’s life, he lost many of the people that were closest to him. Having this many deaths in one’s lifetime is traumatizing and can cause someone to become very depressed. All of this death in Poe’s life has caused him to incorporate themes of revenge in many of his short

That is about a younger man who murders an older man because of his eye. His eye bothered him to the point of causing him to murder him. The young man did not tell anyone about the crime until the police officers questioned him, and then he confessed everything to the officers and told them where he hid the body. This relates to Poe’s life because he has seen that there is so much death that it does not phase him, but when people ask him about it and begin to dig deeper into the subject, that is when they find out the real truth. In all three of these stories, they all have a similar theme of revenge and murder, but it all relates to Poe’s life and how he wrote the majority of his stories in a perverse state of mind. Just as Rea says in her article about how he has perverse state of mind when she goes into details about wanting to hurt, to kill, or to bury someone because of an unbelievable desire” (Rea 307). Edgar Allan Poe’s writings were greatly affected by the deaths of his family