Poetic Prose Of Edgar Allan Poe

The life of Edgar Allan Poe is not a tale of ease. Poe’s life was full of personal and fiscal disaster. These disasters help to mold some of the most ominous and intellectually challenging poetry ever written. For the short duration of Poe’s life, he was seen as a literary critic rather than an author. To the modern generation his unbeknown status seems bafflingly inconceivable, considering his now acclaimed publications. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing was very much dictated by his life. The mournful tone of Edgar Allan Poe’s life created his literature; death and all his friends narrated Poe’s life. Edgar Allan Poe shows his life’s constant despair through his poetry and short story writings.

Edgar Allen Poe was married to Virginia Poe when she was only thirteen years old. They were the happiest couple in the Poe family, they were always laughing and singing together. All this rapidly changed when Virginia became sick, she was later diagnosed with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a well known disease to Poe, as many of his loved ones died from tuberculosis, so he knew that his love would not live for long. Upon the diagnosis of Virginia's disease, “Poe began to drink more under the stress of Virginia’s illness.”(CSI: Edgar Allen Poe) He would spend hours at taverns attempting to drink his sorrows away, but alas it did not work, it only caused the poet to become an alcoholic. His heavy drinking habits prove that he would very likely died from alcohol as his consumption level was far too high.

Edgar Allan Poe was known for suspense in his poems giving a feature of a dark feeling and passion for love. In his most prominent poem, Annabel Lee mainly expresses the love affection the narrator has as they were younger up until the day she died, which impacted him tremendously. His life was full of ups and downs involving women whom he had fallen in love with. In the poem Annabel Lee he expresses the strong love he and his beloved Annabel Lee, although she is pronounced dead his love for her, will never die. The poem also mentions that she died due to a wind but originated from the angles envying her. This poem reflects on Edgar Allan Poe life since he has gradually been with numerous women in his lifetime. In essence, Edgar Allan Poe and the poem of Annabel Lee share a common aspect of women's presence in his life which impacts his poetry.

Edgar married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, whom Edgar had been living with. Virginia was only thirteen when they got married. Ten years after their marraige, Virginia died from the same desease as his mother, tuberculosis. Meloncoly became Edgar.

When Virginia Clemm and Poe got married, for the first time Poe was very positive about his life. “Edgar was living as well as he ever had. The salary he earned.. Allowed him to provide for Virginia and her mother. His health improved, and he stopped drinking. His family had enough to eat.. He made a good impression on the familiar streets of Richmond” (Streissguth 48). Poe’s reputation grew in a positive way. He became well known and famous for his poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809. Poe’s parents were struggling actors. His father deserted him, and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was three years old. Young Edgar was taken in by a wealthy tobacco exporter by the name of John Allan, from whom he took his middle name. Most of his early life was lived in Richmond, Virginia, with the exception of a five-year period when the Allan family lived in England. His life in England was described as rather uneventful. Poe, even in his early years, had a proficiency for writing poetry. When he moved back to Virginia, Poe grew attached to young girl in his neighborhood named Sarah Royster. They frequently visited,

An exceptional poem can move the reader to a new consciousness. It becomes more than words pieced together to make a rhyme, and evokes true emotion that is palpable. One of the most influential authors that contributed to this experience was Edgar Allan Poe. His work is almost immediately recognizable due to his common motif that is both melancholy and mysterious. Much of his writing concerns love and loss, such as in his poem “Annabel Lee.” The essence of this work is endless love and the death of a beautiful young girl. It is thought by many that most of his literature mirrors his actual life, which was riddled with heartbreak and sorrow. It is evident from the mood and setting of his writing that he dealt with a lot of

On the literal level the poem starts off with Poe’s persona remembering his love, Annabel Lee. Many years ago the persona and Annabel Lee were both children

his life have found their way into his poetry. This is evident throughout his works, including

At the age of 27 Poe married his cousin Virginia who was 13. After only a short time of marriage Virginia became ill and eventually died. After Virginias death Poe pursued many women. He eventually became engaged to Elmira Shelton, his 5th attempt to remarry, just before his death. (NYTW,

Poe was unconscious for several days and died in the hospital on Sunday, October 7, 1849. His death was mysterious and there were many urban stories to his death.

Edgar Allan Poe had married his fourteen year-old cousin, whom died ten years later at the age of twenty four, from Tuberculosis (Ljungquist N.P.). After Virginia died, Poe became lost, alcoholic, drug addicted, and debauchery (Szumski 20). “Under the adroit cover of the special mechanism he had constructed, Poe could unveil his inner, introverted self

Together the themes, mood, figurative language, rhyme scheme, and rhythm help create the amazing work it is known to be. In my opinion, this was a very powerful poem containing a compelling message. The reader has to face the dejection and sadness of Poe’s life. Personally, I thought that this was going to be a very boring and uneventful poem, but after reading between the lines it made me realize how deep and genuine the overall meaning behind “Annabel Lee” truly is. I thought Poe did a very good job writing this poem, and he made it very intense and intriguing for the reader.

He took his new family with him, and arranged a wedding for him and Virginia. They lied about her age because she was only twelve at the time, and he was twenty-six. The couple loved one-another no matter what the age difference. They would play games and sing. He even taught Virginia algebra and how to play the flute. While they were singing one evening Virginia had a near death experience when blood vessel ruptured in her throat. After this, the couple continued to live happily until Virginia got Tuberculosis in 1842. She was singing one evening and coughed up blood. During this time Poe continued to take care of her, even carrying her up and down the stairs for meals. He started to write The Raven which was him practicing her death. He then went insane with this because of how many times he practiced it. He wrote it next door while he could hear her dying in the room next to him. He then wrote Annabel Lee to forever immortalize her. After she died, Poe did not want to live anymore, but he didn’t believe in suicide. He would get drunk because of this, and the thought that he was like John Allan which haunted him the rest of his life. He did start to drink before her death, but it was not until

Poe married his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836,she was only 13, then in 1837 they went to New York there he published the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym his only novel. In the summer of 1846 he moved with his wife to a cottage in what was a rural area in Bronx N.Y; she died there of tuberculosis in January of 1947.On October 3, 1949, in Baltimore a stranger found him delirious and in need of medical attention, a few days later he died at the age of 40 from unknown causes.