Edgar Allan Poe wrote many literary works based on the dark and tragic life events he had experienced. Poe used many of his works, to ease the stresses of his reality. He also did this to express his frustrations and his darker side. Edgar Allan Poe mostly used his life experiences in his characters to express this. For example, he uses “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Black Cat”, and “Annabel Lee” to show the loss and grief of loved ones and life experiences. When Poe was just three years of age, he, his brother and sister were orphans. His mother died because of tuberculosis and around the time of Edgar's birth, his father left his mother. Afterwards, this reflected more in his adulthood, which led him to grieve. Although, this also