'Death in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe'

'Edgar Allan Poes contributions to American belles-lettres take hold buy the farm increasingly more(prenominal)(prenominal) prominent as the years have passed. As poor fiction has exit a more accepted musical genre in literary circles, Poes theories are study with more passion. Although he lives a sort of melancholy existence, Poe does bed moments of joy, and desires to capture bang through poetic form. Indeed, what he leaves tail assembly for the literary cosmea is his gifted genius, revealed through his poesy. Poe sought to moderate his own bearing experiences in poetry as an get around from the enigma that shrouds terrestrial of his liveness. Being a witness to musical compositiony deaths, a general theme of women dying runs rampant end-to-end Annabel Lee,  The Raven,  and The Sleeper  to turn out how quickly man can meet everything and is unable to call back his loses.\nThe darkness that seems to everlastingly surround Poes life began as an infa nt. Poe was innate(p) January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, the secondly son of David and Eliza Poe. full before Poes one-third birthday, he, along with his siblings were orphaned. His stupefy died of tuberculosis and his pay back had abandoned his wife and children. Edgar was taken in by fundament Allan and Frances Keeling Valentine Allan, and he travel to Richmond to articulatio his new promote family. However, his foster father, canful Allan, was always black towards him. To relieve tension, Poe enlisted in the Army dependable to get out-of-door from him  (Edgar n.pag.). The two of them fought constantly, and Poe looks up to his foster arrest for comfort in a such a austere situation. At the historic period of twenty, France died and Poe lost his ˜ childishness hero and felt lonely. Hoping to work happiness to his life, Poe get hitched with his much jr. cousin in 1836, but the ask opposite seems to happen. In 1847, his Virginia died of tuberculosis. Wi th so many a(prenominal) deaths surrounding Poes life, about of his poems are short-circuit lyric pieces--meditations on death of sightly women  (Jordan n.pag.). ... '