Edgar Allan Poe’s life was a sad consistent timeline. Tragedy struck his life, time and time again, making him fall further and further into depression. Poe’s personal adversities ironically played a pivotal role in his extraordinary career, as he lost his loved ones due to tuberculosis. Some of the reasonable factors behind his morbid writing style derived from: his calculation theory, his wife’s death, and his excessive experimentation with alcohol. Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled by new technology, Poe ceased to allow the progression of time to hinder his previous ideas. After his first attempts at poetry, he became tremendously poor and struggled to live on his own, having to burn
