He marries his very young cousin Virginia Clemm when she was 13yrs old; she dies in 1847 from a long and hard battle with tuberculosis. After one year of his beloved wife death, he tries to commit suicide and has more of a weakness to drink. He was known to be unable to take even a little alcohol without a change of personality. Furthermore in the poem “the raven” the story is basically about a poor guy whose wife died, and who goes insane, accompanied by the hallucination of a raven that comes through the window, sits above the door and crows “nevermore”. Considering the poem the raven was published in January of 1845 and his wife died in 1847 so the poem couldn’t be talking about her death and how he feels.
Both of Keats’ parents died when he was at a relatively young age. When he was only eight years old, Keats’ father, who was a stable keeper, died from getting trampled by a horse, and his mother died when he was fourteen from tuberculosis, which is a bacterial infection that can spread through the lymph nodes and bloodstream to any organ in your body, according to webmd.com. John attended a school, Enfield Academy, who the head master was John Clarke, whose son Charles Cowden Clarke did much to encourage Keats's literary objectives (“Keats”). In 1811, Keats left school to become an apprentice to a surgeon. It did not take him long to realize that this is not what he wanted to do, so in 1814 Keats cancelled the apprenticeship and decided to dedicate his life to writing poetry.
Indeed, even when his career as a novelist was soaring, Hardy, the poet, wrote as a contemporary to Hardy the novelist. Many of his poems, that have been dated, confirm this. Hardy scholars have also tried to find similarities between the themes of his novels and poems. They seem to have overlooked the fact that similar emotions expressed in two different literary genres yield distinct effects, both for the author and the reader. That Hardy found more solace while expressing himself in poetry needs no proof due to his disowning the tag of a novelist and his desire to be remembered as a poet.
While he wasn't a published writer until he was older, Ashbery used writing to help him through life. "Ashbery's practical need to disguise his homosexuality led him to cultivate his taste for ambiguity and indirection" (Kindley 4). From an early age, Ashbery struggled with the fact that he was not normal. His sexuality caused internal strife and confusion, and his escape was to write. As he wrote, he could be whoever he wanted to be, writing about whatever he wanted to write about.
Perhaps one of the most influential was Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was not an easy one, which explains why poetry was so dark and disturbing. Poe’s father abandoned him when he was a baby, and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was only three years old. He was adopted by a couple named John and Frances Allan. Frances was very loving toward Poe, but sadly died of tuberculosis just before he went to college.
However, a little research into past will certainly open the doors to a better understanding of his writing. Abandoned as an infant by his father, Poe lost his mother to tuberculosis at the age of three, and was sent to live with foster parents. There he was raised but never adopted. Also, his relationship with his foster father was quite tumultuous. Shortly after their death, he married his cousin Virginia Clemm, who also ended up contracting tuberculosis and died after a long hard battle with the disease.
Then in 1833 he moved in with his Aunt Maria Clemm. John Allan died a year later. He then married his cousin Virginia three years later. Virginia then died in 1842 (Anderson 9-64). Poe was introduced to death and betrayal throughout his young life leaving him in a very depressed state, and these traits are present throughout his short stories and poems.
He then published his first book Tamerlane when he was only eighteen. Two years later he heard that Frances Allan, the only mother he had ever known, was dying of tuberculosis and wanted to see him before she died, but by the time Poe returned to Richmond she had already been buried (Life). He then joined the army and went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, but before leaving he published another volume of poetry. Poe continued to write and publish many books and poetry. He found a new woman to love, but in 1842 she contracted tuberculosis and died, leaving Poe heart broken again (Life).
He then published his first book Tamerlane when he was only eighteen. Two years later he heard that Frances Allan, the only mother he had ever known, was dying of tuberculosis and wanted to see him before she died, but by the time Poe returned to Richmond she had already been buried (Life). He then joined the army and went to the United States Military Academy at West Point, but before leaving he published another volume of poetry. Poe continued to write and publish many books and poetry. He found a new woman to love, but in 1842 she contracted tuberculosis and died, leaving Poe heart broken again (Life).
Though it is due to his unfortunate life that he was able to write such great works of literature; Poe’s in fortune, misery, and heartbreak were the main the influence on his writing. Poe’s infortune started when he was very young. Poe was the second child of two actors, David Poe and Elizabeth Arnold. When Poe was three David deserted his family and when he was three his mother fell ill with tuberculosis and died; making Poe an orphan. Poe was then sent to live with John and Frances Allan.