Death And Darkness In Edgar Allan Poe

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Hailey Weinberg
Ms.Powell
English II Honors Period 6
31 March 2014

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Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s whole life had been surrounded by death and darkness, and through his poetry, readers too felt that darkness. Poe wrote all of his works during the 1800s, in which there were few battles or wars that could influence the bleak sense to his poetry. Although the war of 1812 occurred early in his life, it was mostly the tragic family and home life he had endured that made his stories so frightening and suspenseful. The loss of his many loved ones like his mother and his wife put Poe in a very bad place mentally. Maybe he thought he was bad luck or suffered a curse? These tragic events are believed to be one of the many reasons he is such an incredible and studied author. Being famous during the American Romantic Movement many of his poems express darkness, death, and how harsh life can be. Many of his other works express the truth in dreams and how people’s dreams are used to escape from their miserable lives, but once awakened from the dream one is stuck back i...

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