Edgar Allan Poe’s public life and private life differ greatly from each other. First off, according to the second article, “For a man who never had any money or leisure, a man who has been called an alcoholic, a dope addict, and a would-be suicide, his volume of work is amazing!” (3) Well, there is a reason for that. All of those titles were judged by his public appearance. Although you cannot deny that he was very poor, always working, had drinking problems, got involved with drugs, and had a pretty dull life, those were not the pieces of his life that defined him. Through his writings you could see that his was so much more than his flaws. Poe’s heart was golden in many ways. Secondly, the biography video declares that the concept of family
