Edgar Allan Poe writes of death as beautiful and erotic through his poem For Annie, about a maid he once loved named Mrs. Charles B. Richmond. Poe was born January nineteenth, 1809 (biography.com). He was named "The Father of the Detective Story"(biography.com). Edgar Allan Poe has wrote many murder mysteries and one of his poems and short stories genre is dark romanticism (eapoe.org). Poe has been an influence on other writers and poets. Poe hardly knew his parents, his mother Elizabeth Arnold who was a British actress and
David Poe Jr., an actor born in Baltimore. Edgar didn't have a strong relationship with his parents , his father left early as he was a child and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when Poe was only three. After,
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When Poe returned home he found it out to be that his fiancé, Sarah Elmira Royster, had become engaged to another an. Finding out the news, Poe became frustrated and had fled to Boston, Massachusetts …show more content…
For example, in one line Poe speaks about life being like a fever, which makes sense due to a person being warm (body temperature), and when they die they become cool. This may not be humorous now, but in the era in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote his stories, it was comedic then. There is actually a paradox in the poem in which a person must die in order to conquer the fever; "horrible throbbing" symbolizes as the narrators heartbeat and the explaining of the speaker not wanting to be alive. Due to them not wanting to live their life, the naphthalene could have symbolized them killing themselves. Today, death is looked upon as a horrible thing, in For Annie death is portrayed as a relief. The narrator talks of words that say they have drank water that quenches all thirst; an unattainable woman and the only way to satisfy that thirst is to kill oneself. The poem goes from a negative point of view to a positive one by using transition words such as happiness and beauty. Happiness is implied due to the phrase "his heart is brighter than the stars in the sky and glows with the love of his Annie (bunchofwordz.com).
Edgar Allan Poe died on October seventh, 1848. Still to this day the real reason as to why
He passed away is still is mystery of its own. Poe left Richmond and was suppose to be on his way to Philadelphia. Soon someone found Poe distressed in Baltimore and rushed him to Dwier