How Did Edgar Allan Poe Impact Society

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer with a very tragic and sad life. His writing was deeply impacted by his difficult life. Poe was known for his short stories and poems filled with horror and suspense. Although Poe is very famous nowadays, throughout his life he was not known as the famous writer he is today. Poe had an unstable family, suffered from alcoholism and most of his life he dealt with poverty.
One way Poe’s life impacted his writing was his unstable family. He dealt with the loss of his mother, and his wife Virginia. He also lost his brother. Poe’s wife, mother, and brother all died of Tuberculosis. Poe wrote about his mother’s death in the poem Alone. The poem explains how he is not like other kids and explains that he couldn’t cherish his loved ones. His loss of Virginia was expressed in the poem Annabelle Lee. The story tells how he falls so deeply in love with Virginia that the angels become envious so they take her …show more content…
His alcoholism was a major issue in his life. He drank to ease his internal pain but, it caused him to lose many jobs. His alcoholism is shown in the short stories: The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado. The Black Cat tells how the narrator becomes an alcoholic and abuses his cat and wife. The Cask Of Amontillado tells about the narrator tricking the other character to get revenge. The overall story symbolises his alcoholism.
Poe being an alcoholic led to a life filled with constant depression, sorrow and disappointment. Lastly, Poe’s life impacted his writing with his constant battle with poverty. Poe struggled with poverty throughout his entire life. He had lots of debt and was always in search of money. When he was in debt his foster father would not help him financially. This strained their relationship even more. The poem Poe wrote that symbolized poverty was called Eldorado. Eldorado was a poem about a man who yearned for money his whole life and died searching for