Negative Effects Of A Terrible Evil By Rebecca Onion

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The author Edgar Allan Poe from the texts “A Terrible Evil": Edgar Allan Poe Writes About His Wife's Illness and Death” By Rebecca Onion and “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe I can infer that Edgar Allan Poe is a negative gloomy person. Moreover, according to the text "A Terrible Evil": Edgar Allan Poe Writes About His Wife's Illness and Death By Rebecca Onion” states, “Being ‘constitutionally sensitive—nervous in a very unusual degree,’ he wrote, he became ‘insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” In other words, besides the fact that Onion describes Poe as being sensitive, nervous and horribly insane. Additionally supporting my claim that Poe is negative since he was unhinged and on edge he consistently had a negative attitude. Secondly, Onion states, “ During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. …show more content…

This ties back to the claim that Poe’s negative outlook and perspective on life affects because the way he sees people and himself changes through his excessive drinking. Furthermore, in the text “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe , he mentions, “ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” Originally meaning Poe is feeling this sense of darkness within him. Then reading this I know this supports my claim that Poe is a gloomy person because in that quote above he consequently shows his depression he is feeling dark and dreaming dreams so bad , that he feels no one has ever dreamed before. Poe is describing his dreams as un normal almost as unreal also showing his

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