Edgar Allen Poe's Life

Death, suspense this is what Edgar allen Poe had become of a writer.Mr. Poe was a writer who wrote books like the Tell Tale Heart, The Black Cat and The Strange Case of M. Valdemar, but what are the thoughts that provoke Mr Poe to write such things of death and mystery.There are many reasons of his personal life that give him the imagery to right stories for instance, his rough childhood, his alcoholism, and the deaths of women in his life.Mr. Poe´s stories sometimes have more reality than fiction. Childhood is supposed to be a fun learning period in life, however Edgar Allen Poe's childhood was tragic.His childhood very well could have been an outlet for his writings.Mr. Poe´s father named David Poe jr had left Edgar his 2 siblings and …show more content…
Poe would coe home drunk from the “pub” or bar.Another such book with alchohalic beverages would be The Cask of Amontiado.In this story there is a party and many people are drunk on fine wine including a fine taster named Fortunado who was extremely drunk.As an act of revenge a man named Montressor planned to kill him in the catacombs of his home.He told Fortunado of a new brew he had perchasted called Amantiodo.He lured him into the catacombs and walled him up so nobody would find him.Purhaps this was a showing of how he seamed to be clostrophobic which he uses in many of his stories.The final showing of his alchohalism could be him drinking to cope with the pain of the loved ones he lost, many of the ones he had lost would be the women he loved.However the mind altering affects of the beverages would bring him to write such terrible tales of …show more content…
Allen died also of tuberculosis when Poe was still living with the Allen family.As Frances was dying his foster father was having affairs while she was slowly dying because Tuberculosis was a slow killer.The death of his foster mother defffinatly impacted his life in a negative way.However the most impacting death Edgar Allen Poe faced was the loss of his wife Virginnia who get this also deid of Tuberculosis, it seems as if he is being totured by the likes of death itself.After Virginnia died edgar went into a deep depression, he even went to the lengths of writing a poem called Annabel Lee.Edgar Allen Poe really couldn’t escape death just like in the Masque of the Red Death. Edgar Allen Poe wrote many dark stories and poems but, behind the writer is a whole different mystery even more mysterious than Murders in the Rogue Morgue.His writings were influenced by his past and present death after death loss by loss Edgar Allen Poe wrote stories to express his feelings.In conclusion Edgar Allen Poe’s wwriting was influenced by his rough childhood, his alchohalism and the deaths of women in