The juxtaposition of Poe's life and work is most evident in the morbid personalities and melancholy themes of his literary compositions, similar to those of his life. ... Tragically, Jane Stanard was dying from a malignant brain tumor. ... When she died insane on April 28, Edgar was devastated. ... 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." ...

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• Grade Level: High School