The Impacts Of Edgar Allan Poe's Life

Edgar Allan Poe’s last words before he died were, “Lord, help my poor soul.” Edgar Allan Poe didn’t have a very good life. He struggled with depression and a bipolar disorder. Poe’s life affected his writing by how he lost many people, his childhood, and how he struggled with mental illnesses. When he wrote, he wrote how he felt and put those feelings into words Poe lost many people during his life including his mother. Poe took these deaths to heart and he was hurt by the deaths. When Poe wrote, it was mostly about death, sorrow, and grief. On Pbs.org, it states, “Throughout his life, Edgar Allan Poe lost the woman he loved, including his mother.” The article, “The Deaths of The Woman in Poe’s Life” Poestories.com by Robert Giordano tells us that Poe

This shows us how Poe’s childhood also affected his writing. Not only from his loved one passing but also from growing up. Growing up and adulthood had affected Edgar Allan Poe’s writing. Edgar’s writing was affected by his life such as childhood and by Joy Fishman helps support our claim. The article states “According to Poe, who often focused on death and loss in his works, ‘the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world'’” (The Philosophy of Composition). This helps show us how the loss of many people in Poe’s life affected his writing. Poe had few loved ones and when they passed he chose writing to help. Poe’s writing was affected by the death of his few loved ones. Growing up Edgar Allan Poe didn’t really fit in and he lost many people. In his poem Alone he says “ From childhood’s hour I have not been as others were”(