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Edgar Allan Poe's A Soul With Sorrow Laden

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A Soul with Sorrow Laden Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 1809. He is a famous American writer, poet and critic. I believe that his poems reflect his tragic and sorrowful life. Starting with the loss of his parents when he was only 3 years old. Then he lived with John Allan, which was not a very good relationship that he had to escape. Moreover, the death of his beloved wife had the most impact on him and his poems. Poe was genius sense he was a child, he could express his feelings through writing which I think was the main reason that made him such a great poet. The majority of his poems showed his anger to life that when I start reading it I could imagine how much Poe was mad at that time. Full of mystery with sad eternal music deals with the darker parts of the human nature. Also, the influence that death made to Poe's heart made him create …show more content…

For example, in sonnet to science he personified science as if it is the immortal daughter of the ancient time "science! True daughter of old time thou art!" In addition, he uses repetition in many of his poems to show the clearness of his ideas like in one of my favorite poems "the raven" the word nevermore "qouth the raven, "nevermore." repeated many times which passes negative emotions to my heart that I felt the pain of the narrator and how much he misses his dead lover Lenore. The tragic things covered Poe's heart and mind with a gloomy perspective for life, but it couldn't hide the charming love for love that was in his personality, and made him write such a beautiful lines about love like in Tamelane " I saw no heaven – but in her eyes". "Annabel Lee", a romantic and tragic poem ends up with the death of the man's lover "Annabel Lee", he wrote it a few months before his death, which is a strong proof that Poe had a tender heart that made him die in the end because of the longing to his

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The loss of his wife deeply impacted him. The second main impact on his writing was his alcoholism. When Poe was 20 he began to excessively drink which then led to losing many jobs. Furthermore, he became extremely depressed which explains the death and darkness to his stories.

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He needed the stuff we have in modern day called a safe chamber and a place to have someone watch over him so he didn’t try to do so many deadly and sad things in his life. Sometimes life hits like a truck and makes you feel worthless like Poe did, but he would have made his life better if he tried to become better and happier with his life rather than keep looking back into his past. Imagine if Poe had a happy life and if he had happy poems how different we would think of him and all that he does. He has impacted the poem community heavily and it has changed our mind perspectives. The way sad poems affect us makes us think of different ways it can be interpreted.

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Edgar Allan Poe's life almost definitely influenced his literary works especially how melancholy his poems are. From reading his poems he speaks about the loss he had experienced in life, especially with his first wife, Lenore who he loved very much and whom was devastated of her death. In the poem "The Raven" he speaks to the raven, asking him if he could help him forget about his wife's death. The only thing the raven says to him was "nevermore" it began to drive Poe mad, he began cursing the raven by saying that he should be able to forget his wifes untimely demise.

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