Edgar Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. He was born to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. His parents were traveling actors, so he didn't really know them. By 1811, his father had abandoned the family; Poe was two years old at the time. That forced Elizabeth Poe to raise Edgar, his elder brother Henry, and his infant sister Rosalie alone. Things seem to get worse for Poe. On December 8 1811, Elizabeth died of consumption (today known as tuberculosis). Later news arrived that David Poe had died days later from the same disease. All of the three Poe were split up. Edgar was then adopted by the family of John and Frances Allan. Poe then made his foster family's name his own, becoming Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar was more attached to his foster mother, Frances, instead of his foster father. Poe enrolled in at the University of Virginia in 1826. However, Poe suffered from a bad gambling addiction, which put in a two thousand dollar debt. Poe's foster father refuse to pay. .
Poe then ditched the Allans and decided to move to Baltimore with some relatives. Then there came a big twist in Po's biography, he fell in love with his thirteen year old first cousin, Virginia Clemm. Virginia soon became Edgar's wife. However in January 1842, Virginia began to bleed from the mouth, which is a symptom of tuberculosis. Five years later, she died from the deadly disease. The same disease that killed his parents and his older brother had also taken his beloved wife. Poe was so trouble with grief that people thought that he was gone go in insane. However Poe denied it-"I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched." He later said-but his wife's death sent him into a downward spiral of drinking and depression from which he could never recover from. Edgar Allan Poe's severe alcohol abuse combined with the unsupportive family played a large role in the development of Poe's unique writing styles.
When picking a topic for my research paper. ... I started to think about my interests is reading literature, and I decided to write about my favorite author Edgar Allan Poe. This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. ... Edgar Allan Poe deserves more credit than any other writer for his transformation of the short story to art. ... Edgar Allan Poe was a writer who is known for giving literature and eerie and bizarre twist. ...
Every story that was conceived from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe contained a part of himself on each page. ... In this research paper I will reveal facts about Poe's life and define hidden meanings throughout his works. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... After John Allan and Poe had a huge fight over Poe's gambling addiction, Poe joined the army under the alias of "Edgar Allan Perry- (Britannica). ... Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7th, 1849 (Britannica). ...
It is the goal of this research paper to reveal symbolic facts about his life and define these hidden maxims in a way that is easy to understand and beneficial to the reader. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts ("Poe, Edgar Allan,"" Encyclopedia Britannica 540). ... After John Allan and Poe had their quarrels over Poe's gambling addiction, he joined the army under the alias of "Edgar Allan Perry- ("Poe, Edgar Allan,"" Encyclopedia Britannica 540). ... Also in 1843 Poe published one his greatest works, "The Tell-Tale Heart- ("Poe Edgar Allan,"" Encarta E...
Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... The main concern of this paper is to explore the reasons behind all these dark, coarse and dreadful imagery appeared in Poe's stories, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. ... Then he is ado...
