Edgar Allan Poe – Life And Works Are Very Much Related
Poe felt very lonely and abandoned during his life.
Everyone he loved either left him or died, and he felt helpless. When he was just two years old his father left the family due to alcoholism. Later his mother died from tuberculosis after a performance.
When he grew older he married his 13 year old cousin Virginia Clemm, while he was 26 years old. Poe was poor and had no good jobs because he continually ruined opportunities for success by quarrelling. Though no one knows for sure, several incidents suggest that Poe suffered some kind of mental illness, and he did have a drinking problem.Poe was one of the first on a long list of American writers that felt the need to drink. Poe liked to write, but he also tried to make money from his works, though he didn’t get much. He wrote many short stories, like the Premature Burial, the Fall of the House of Usher, the Tell Tale Heart, and the Cask of Amontillado. Though he wrote many more, mostly all his stories moods were depressing (melancholy), eerie, dark and gloomy, and some of his themes were “death is inevitable”.
Many of his stories or poems also took place at midnight, like the Raven. He also wrote about his fears, for example, it is obvious that one of his fears was for someone he loved to be buried alive because he expresses it in some of his stories, like the Fall of the House of Usher, The Premature Burial, and a few others. Poe also wrote horror stories and short stories with insanity and madness. Since he lost many people he loved, he wrote poems like Annabel Lee that expressed how painful it was to him to see someone close pass away.
Poe’s life and works are very much related. His writing was connected with his life. During his life, he lost many people he loved, and he also wrote poems about his lost loves. He feared being buried alive, and wrote many stories linked to that, and even many more about death. In his stories, he expresses the theme “death is inevitable”. When Virginia Clemm broke a blood vessel in her throat, Poe tried to keep her alive for 5 years, but then she died.Poe couldn’t keep her alive because she was dying, and you can’t escape death.
Poe had no stable world, which was probably why he was able to write such tales of love and death; and why he couldn’t live a normal life. His writing made a big connection with his life. It tells us how he felt, what his fears were, and also the kind of person that he was. If he was a madman, we don’t know, though the story of his life and the stories he wrote may make you think that.