The gothic atmosphere of this school provided him with many details he was later to make use of in his fiction. ... Yet she seems to prophesize her destiny, as only Poe would have it: "I am dying, yet I shall live." ... After her death, her tormented father lays her in her grave and "laughed with a long and bitter laugh as I found no traces of the first, in the charnel where I laid the second, Morella." ... Although Poe admired Virginia greatly and admits to having passionately loved her, many feel that a hint towards his feelings for her may be found in "Morella," in which the author wrote:...

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