What Is Edgar Allan Poe's Attitude To Death

Edgar Allan Poe is known as the grandfather of horror in American Literature he was the first one to employ this style of writing. Poe’s “Spirits of the Dead” is a profound mystery just like his other works like “The Raven” “The Pit and the pendulum” and “The Black Cat”. His life was surrounded with despair and loneliness, which gave him motivation and topics for his writings. Unlike most artists Edgar Allan Poe painted his emotions with words, giving us an entry toward his obscure and gloomy life. Edgar gives a glimpse of his emotions in the Spirits of the dead using death as a clear theme throughout his short poem. “Spirits of the Dead” show us how deep and complex his writing is around times of despair, which allows us to interpret his

He struggled with depression and loneliness, deaths, and finally his battle with alcoholism. Throughout his life Poe had an ongoing battle of loneliness and depression due to the lost of his loved ones. Since Poe was young his life has revolved around death the first two deaths were his mother and his wife. Both his mother and wife had similar deaths, demise by tuberculosis. Around the illness of Virginia he wrote two short stories indicating his despair “The Raven” and “Eleonora”. “Sprits of the dead” is a perfect example to show how death was expressed in his writings. In “the Black Cat” Edgar’s character has a love for animals and has a fine collection, throughout the story his favorite companion is Pluto the Black Cat that seems to follow him wherever he goes. After months the animals see a drastic change in their owner, he is falling victim to alcohol leading to the hurting and torture of his animals and wife. The black cat in this story can be interrupted in many ways; the cat can be his own shadow and some how he sees himself struggling with alcoholism not knowing how to react to his own faults. For Edgar his only way out of the depression, he faced was to drown himself in alcohol to end the pain he was