Some people may think that authors don’t have a reason to write, but the truth is most authors have a back story. For example, Edgar Allan Poe’s life was one like no other. His works were reflected in his life by his alcoholism, the death of his loved ones, and relationship of Poe with the rich. Many would say alcoholism played a key role in Poe’s writing. Once Poe got into college, alcohol became a problem causing him to go into debt. Poe quit school less than a year later. A couple years after that, to quit drinking, Poe joined “Sons of Temperance” in effect to stop drinking, but didn’t succeed. In Poe’s words, it was “perversion”, meaning “the act of doing something even though you know you should not do it.” (“Edgar A. Poe’s Life”) Poe
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This is the meaning behind “Premature Burial”, one of Poe’s works. He wrote this work to express his fear of being buried alive, because of drinking alcohol, but he still continued to drink. Many of Poe’s friends told Poe to drink so he can “cope with his problems”. In modern day times, people “drink away their problems”, which could be the worst choices one could ever make. Alcoholism plays a key role in many stories written by Poe. In “The Black Cat”, another story written by Poe, he expresses himself through a character in the story. What takes place in this story is the effect of alcohol on one’s life. The decisions being made is all affected by alcoholism and shows that the main character is destroying his life by the decisions being made. Poe truly reveals his inner-self throughout “The Black Cat”. Another story Poe reveals alcohol abuse is in “Hop Frog”. The Hop Frog, representing Poe, is allergic to alcohol as well. The King making Hop Frog a main entertainment, just like people in Poe’s time triggered Poe to become a public embarrassment by forcing Poe to drink alcohol, becoming the only way for Poe to cope with his problems. The main problem between Poe and alcoholism was he knew alcohol was …show more content…
Poe lost his mother at age two, and then continued to lose his step-mother in his teens. Poe then lost his step-father five years after his step-mother. Since he grew up without much of a mother figure in his life, he had a change of mind growing up. Poe finally found a love in the insane asylum, Sarah Royster, who overtime died while in the asylum of tuberculosis. Sarah was known as Poe’s last true love. When she died, this is when his life started degrading. In one of his works written in 1827, “A Dream within a Dream”, he talks about holding grains of sand within his hands which he uses to compare all the loved ones in his life. He says the harder he grasps onto the grains of sand, the more sand falls out, just like his life with his loved ones. He holds on tight to his loved ones like the sand, but they slowly slip away into the dirt. In “The Oval Portrait”, written in 1842, Poe uses an artist to represent himself. The artist paints a portrait of his wife, the best piece of work, and when he finished the last touches, the wife dies. This was believed to be correlated with Sarah Royster since she was known as his one true love. Poe uses the portrait to describe how not to let any prized possession go. He says this was his best painting, referring to his best love, Sarah Royster, and he could never let it go. Another story of a wife dying written by Poe was in “The Black Cat”, written in 1843. The man representing
This is the meaning behind “Premature Burial”, one of Poe’s works. He wrote this work to express his fear of being buried alive, because of drinking alcohol, but he still continued to drink. Many of Poe’s friends told Poe to drink so he can “cope with his problems”. In modern day times, people “drink away their problems”, which could be the worst choices one could ever make. Alcoholism plays a key role in many stories written by Poe. In “The Black Cat”, another story written by Poe, he expresses himself through a character in the story. What takes place in this story is the effect of alcohol on one’s life. The decisions being made is all affected by alcoholism and shows that the main character is destroying his life by the decisions being made. Poe truly reveals his inner-self throughout “The Black Cat”. Another story Poe reveals alcohol abuse is in “Hop Frog”. The Hop Frog, representing Poe, is allergic to alcohol as well. The King making Hop Frog a main entertainment, just like people in Poe’s time triggered Poe to become a public embarrassment by forcing Poe to drink alcohol, becoming the only way for Poe to cope with his problems. The main problem between Poe and alcoholism was he knew alcohol was …show more content…
Poe lost his mother at age two, and then continued to lose his step-mother in his teens. Poe then lost his step-father five years after his step-mother. Since he grew up without much of a mother figure in his life, he had a change of mind growing up. Poe finally found a love in the insane asylum, Sarah Royster, who overtime died while in the asylum of tuberculosis. Sarah was known as Poe’s last true love. When she died, this is when his life started degrading. In one of his works written in 1827, “A Dream within a Dream”, he talks about holding grains of sand within his hands which he uses to compare all the loved ones in his life. He says the harder he grasps onto the grains of sand, the more sand falls out, just like his life with his loved ones. He holds on tight to his loved ones like the sand, but they slowly slip away into the dirt. In “The Oval Portrait”, written in 1842, Poe uses an artist to represent himself. The artist paints a portrait of his wife, the best piece of work, and when he finished the last touches, the wife dies. This was believed to be correlated with Sarah Royster since she was known as his one true love. Poe uses the portrait to describe how not to let any prized possession go. He says this was his best painting, referring to his best love, Sarah Royster, and he could never let it go. Another story of a wife dying written by Poe was in “The Black Cat”, written in 1843. The man representing