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Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Influence of Women on Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was a nineteenth century writer who, inappropriate most of his peers, wrote stories that were morbid and the macabre. It wasnt until later his death that it was revealed why this was so. Poe stories center on the otherworldly and macabre, do sure his true emotions would assign through his words. He was not a believer of covering fire up the truth as he saw it exclusively to appeal to the faint hearted. During this succession of Poes almost perpetual down slope until his death, tuberculosis was winning the lives of many American people. It killed just about 10,000 people per day, out of these thousands wild Poe lost many love singles to this ravenous disease including his biologic mother, his brother and his angel upon the earth, Virginia Clemm (his married woman and cousin).\nThis idea of women being angels began at an early age concomitant to his mothers death, when Poe was age three, and it left him passing vulnerable. This is where it is believe d Poes infatuation with women and his belief of their angelic characteristics came from. All through feeling Poe courted women, sometimes more than superstar at a time, this is why in many of Poes literary pieces he speaks of women or the sorrows of love. On the other hand Poe wrote of death, disease, and miraculous occurrences either side by side or fork from his romantic pieces. Some of these supernatural pieces were some(prenominal) more ad hominem for Poe such as The predate and The Fall of the House of Usher. Although both poems reflect his personal liveliness in some bureau The Raven is a much more accurate characterization of his personal experiences.\nThe death of Virginia Clemm, his cousin - and later wife - was one of the most difficult deaths he had to endure. Her death led to a termination of hard drink and staying up all hours to take over her enroll, sometimes however sleeping on her grave to be closer to her. This period of despair and disorienta tion followed the intromission of The Raven. Although The Raven�...

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