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Pain And Sorrow In Edgar Allen Poe's Life

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Edgar Allen Poe’s life was riddled with pain and sorrow. Poe’s father abandoned him a year after his birth, with the death of his mother soon after. Now a foster child that was never fully accepted by his foster family. In 1836 he married is 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemn, and in 1847 she dies of tuberculosis. Poe’s entire existence had periods of pain and sorrow, and this pain is expressed in his writing style, the following poem describes Poe’s depiction of nature. “But when the Night had thrown her pall,” Poe’s grotesque style of writing is presented by a section of one of his poems, The Lake—To—. The opening line describes the night sky as the lid to a coffin, a lid that confines the soul deep underground, far from freedom. He expresses
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