Poe VS Emerson Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) both lived in the 18th century but lived completely different lives. When Poe was three years old both of his parents had died and him and his two siblings got separated. Edgar was adopted by the Allan family and was to grow up to be in the tobacco industry but he wanted to be a writer and made that clear. Poe eventually went off to college but became very poor with his debts that he began to gamble and eventually burn his furniture to keep warm. From them Poe’s life was a series of hills that mostly go down. Emerson’s life story is a lot less depressing; his family didn’t die when he was young, he went to Harvard and became a minister. Both Poe and Emerson had
