Samantha A. Lawson
Professor Tammy Debrot
English 310
12 November 2016
What Inspiration did Edgar Allen Poe’s Life have on his Writing?
Edgar Allen Poe, an American Romantic writer, was known for his countless versions of literature that fashioned a signature style he would become well recognized for. To cover and analyze all the masterful writings of Poe would take some time, so I have decided to narrow the field by just covering those we have went over this year. Many view Poe’s style as obscure and depressing leaving us wondering what he must have experienced to take him to such a place. Could Poe have used his scornful past childhood and life losses to inspire him so deeply he could pull from the darkness he felt to create such writings. …show more content…
Poe would experience death and dismay various times throughout his lifetime after his parent’s death. These heart-rendering events triggered him great pain and could be the main source for him to use in his writing, developing a knack for describing death beyond comparison. Due to his mortalities driving him Poe honed his aptitudes and wrote using his emotional state in his works. Perhaps he dealt with the pain through his expression of words twisting his misfortune seamlessly into …show more content…
With each event Poe emerges, only to be a little more sinister than his preceding works. You can clearly see the toll that it is taking on him. When Poe writes The Raven, we can see a glimpse of the lunacy that has slowly consumed him. Poe’s long battle with depression and loss has become evidently clear when he writes “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought it’s ghost upon the floor” (Poe, 688). Here is the moment when Poe reveals his past haunts him still and his struggle with coping with their deaths have played in his
Professor Tammy Debrot
English 310
12 November 2016
What Inspiration did Edgar Allen Poe’s Life have on his Writing?
Edgar Allen Poe, an American Romantic writer, was known for his countless versions of literature that fashioned a signature style he would become well recognized for. To cover and analyze all the masterful writings of Poe would take some time, so I have decided to narrow the field by just covering those we have went over this year. Many view Poe’s style as obscure and depressing leaving us wondering what he must have experienced to take him to such a place. Could Poe have used his scornful past childhood and life losses to inspire him so deeply he could pull from the darkness he felt to create such writings. …show more content…
Poe would experience death and dismay various times throughout his lifetime after his parent’s death. These heart-rendering events triggered him great pain and could be the main source for him to use in his writing, developing a knack for describing death beyond comparison. Due to his mortalities driving him Poe honed his aptitudes and wrote using his emotional state in his works. Perhaps he dealt with the pain through his expression of words twisting his misfortune seamlessly into …show more content…
With each event Poe emerges, only to be a little more sinister than his preceding works. You can clearly see the toll that it is taking on him. When Poe writes The Raven, we can see a glimpse of the lunacy that has slowly consumed him. Poe’s long battle with depression and loss has become evidently clear when he writes “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought it’s ghost upon the floor” (Poe, 688). Here is the moment when Poe reveals his past haunts him still and his struggle with coping with their deaths have played in his