Edgar Allan Poe wrote many famous suspenseful short stories and poems like The Tell Tale Heart,The Raven and the Black Cat. Poe’s tragic life affected his writing in a variety of ways. He had a life filled with constant depression and sadness. Events in his life that affected his writing were his family and loved ones, alcoholism, and poverty. First of all, Poe’s family impacted some of his writing.
How Life Has Affected Edgar Allan Poe’s Work Edgar Allan Poe, was not famous for writing happy and cheerful poems. Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s life, he was surrounded by constant fatality from the death of his parents leading up to the final moments of his dear wife Virginia and it was expressed in his poems and fictional writings.
Now that you understand personification and anthropomorphism, let’s focus on how you can include personification in your own writing. Personification is intended to create an image in the reader’s mind. It is meant to connect the reader with an object that is not human. As with all figures of speech, you first need to determine your tone.
As we can see many of his famous sellers all end in a tragedy just like his life. It’s also not very hard to make connections for character to his folks. In his short story The Masque of the Death, Poe addresses his main point or the theme of the book as well. This book also connects with some history, has exciting and frightening characters, and explores some psychological elements. Poe looked to his imagination and his life stories and created them into tales we all love and enjoy.
Have you ever felt sad or upset? Edgar Allen Poe did in his life and it was shown in his writings. Poe created a poem called ‘El Dorado’ which was about a man looking for a city of gold and kept looking but grew old as the hills, so he wasted his life looking for money but never found it. He also wrote a short story named ‘The Oval Portrait’ and it was about a man staying in a castle who found a picture and it had a caption talking about how the man painted his wife in which he was so obsessed with drawing her that he didn’t even notice she was dieing. In ‘El Dorado’ and in ‘The Oval Portrait’, they each had their own theme and in those, the story can be compared to his life.
Poe’s personal life impacted his writing in many ways such as death of loved one's, alcoholism and symbolism in his stories. Poe was his own worst enemy, when he was about to be successful he sunk his own ship. The death of Poe’s loved ones had a huge impact on his writing. The pain and loneliness That come with death impacted poe a lot.
Personifications can make the object more meaningful and completely change the meaning with human characteristics. It adds depth to the story and changes the way you see an object. Ray Bradbury uses Personifications really well and it adds depth to the story and helps you think critically to what you just read. Maybe the ¨happylife home¨ is not so happy, maybe it is a lonely sad house.
Edgar Allan Poe was a gothic literary writer who lived in the early 1800’s. Edgar was praised for writing unique and original stories and poems on disturbing topics like suffering and death. Examples of these stories and poems include “Eleonora” and “The Raven” which are both about a man lamenting over the loss of his wife. These two tales are very similar but show a rare insight into the mind of Poe and how much his life affected his melancholy writing.
For example, the author uses personification in the sentence which states, “. . .bits of paper danced between the parked cars.” By using personification the author helps the reader to infer the scenery as empty, abandoned, and a run-down, deserted area. Also, the author uses a simile in the sentence, “His father’s words like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem. . .” The author describes the character as a big, loud man.
Though Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories like, The Cask of Amontillado, to his poems like, The Raven, Poe’s shows his writing style to use physical imagery and connotative syntax to show ,imagery in his writing. Throughout his life, Poe had always lived through the most chaotic and evil of time. His parents died while he was 3 years old. After his parents died, he lived with another family member who never accepted him as their own son. Later on in life, Poe had served in the military and at that point he started writing poems.
Learning about how all of the people that he loved, and cared for died will show just about anyone that it was not an easy life for Poe. A critic once said that Poe wrote and knew that any type of love had to come with loss (Kennedy). This showed a lot about Poe’s life as everyone that he loved he actually did lose. This made it a lonely life that made him very depressed. In his poems, Edgar Allan Poe, portrayed that his loneliness has came from the love, and loss of his most important people.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author; he mainly focused in genres such as short stories and poems. Poe didn’t have much of an academic background in literature but, he excelled in it. Some people believe that his success was mostly due to the fact that his life was very sad, filled by a series on misfortunate events, such as being an orphan, suffering from poverty and being constantly surrounded by death. In his works, Poe portrays narratives that are characterized by their mystery and macabre. The topic of death was ever present in his work, constantly describe with dark moods and somewhat terrifying settings.
