Edgar Allan Poe Research Paper

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, some experts said that poe was high on Neuroticism, Neuroticism is one of the big-five high order personality traits, the person with high Neuroticism are more likely to get moody, angry, anxiety, worry, fear, loneliness, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood. This is in my opinion why poe writes about horror, murder and other gothic themes. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was born in Seville in 1836, at the age 21 Becquer is infected by tuberculosis with à growing pessimism, but his patroness and brother help him go through it, and it was in the same year that he set himself à huge goal which was about “Spanish Christian art, combining religious ideals, architecture, and history. However,

One example of the dark feeling theme was, one of his very well known poems, “The black cat”, this poems talks about this man who killed his cat, and then the cat haunts him, this one poem covers two dark feeling at the same time in my opinion these feeling are murder (or more likely guilt of murder) and

Since Poe lost his mother at the age of 2, his adoptive mother died also at a pretty young age and finally lost his when she was 25, in my opinion it isn’t that surprising if he talks about depression and dark emotions, since personnel trauma’s like: “rape, domestic violence, natural disasters, severe illness or injury, witnessing an act of violence and the death of a loved one” can lead to depression, Poe in my opinion could’ve had not only experienced depression but also write about his experience. Becquer was at a moment in his life hit by tuberculosis, and with it his pessimism kept growing but it was only with the help of his patroness and his brother, this part of his life led me to the conclusion that in the case of thought and state of souls they differ, in the way that, Becquer went through pessimism with his family, but Poe got his dark emotions/state of souls because of his