Edgar Allan Poe wrote many famous poems and in most of the poems that he wrote, had the reoccurring theme of death. Many of these poems include: “The Raven,” ”Lenore,” “Annabel Lee,” “The City in the Sea,” and “Eldorado.” Poe uses death so often in his poems because he had a very difficult life. He lived in poverty his whole life after college and all of the women he loved died of tuberculosis (Poe’s Life: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?). Shortly after his wife, Virginia, died he wrote his most famous poem “The Raven.” This poem is filled with symbols of death and the overall tone of the poem is extremely morbid. In his poem, the narrator speaks of his lost love, Lenore. Poe also wrote a whole poem dedicated to this woman, this poem was, “Lenore.”
