The Impact Of Life On Edgar Allen Poe's Personal Life

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How Poe’s personal life impacted his writing. Edgar Allen Poe was not the brightest kid. His step dad left him and all the women died of the tuberculosis. He was always alone he never had someone to love him because they all died. Poe never had many friends he never was picked for playing games. Edgar Allen Poe wrote 69 poems. That is a lot. Getting $15 a poem wasn’t very much money. However, just to name a few, we have The Raven, The Black Cat & The Gold Bug. These are the most known poems. The Raven is about after death. The Black Cat is about his alcoholism his claustrophobia. The Gold Bug is about Edgar Allen Poe having no money. Poe had a problem with drinking. It made him free fall, like you're drifting from reality. He couldn’t