Edgar Allan Poe Cooping Essay

There are many different theories as to how Edgar Allan Poe died, the main two being cooping or a beating. But is it either of those? Poe was found by a bar, unconscious. Then later at the hospital, he was very delirious and was wearing dirty clothes that were not his own. Also, when a person has too much alcohol it causes their liver to start to fail because it can't filter out all of the toxins. Edgar Allan Poe died from alcoholism because Poe was found senseless by a bar, he had struggled with a severe alcohol addiction his whole life, and he easily got drunk. The other common theory to Poe's death was cooping. Cooping was when people kidnapped someone and made that person vote. It could have been cooping because,"...the day Poe was found on the street was election day in Baltimore and the place near where he was found, Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls…"(The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe). Although it wasn't cooping because "...Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls, was both a bar and a place for voting." (The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe) As the quote states the place Poe was found was not only a voting place but it was a bar. Poe could have voted but most likely he was drinking and went outside to get some air or walk home and collapsed just outside the door at the bar. The first reason Poe had died from alcohol was that he had a heavy alcohol addiction. "...eschewing alcohol, which he'd struggled with all his life." (Geiling) As the quote states, he had trouble refusing alcohol in his lifetime. So the night he died the bartender might have kept offering him drinks and he wouldn't ever refuse. In addition, Poe was a …show more content…
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