Many literary works of a great deal of contemporary writers express their familial backgrounds and experiences throughout their literature. For example, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, illustrates her struggle and strife as a young girl growing up in an abusive household. As for Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank was written to expose what her life was like during the Holocaust and how she was in hiding for close to two years.
Edgar Allan Poe lived a hard life, which is reflected in his. Its dark and gloomy settings along with often depressing topics mirror his difficult times. That is generally the proposed reason why many of his short stories & poems seem to assert a great degree of blood and death. Especially since many of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven" in particular, are marked by deep sadness over the loss of a loved one. "Poe gave these fantastic tales a dark, compelling sincerity" (Levert 59). Many of his poems are also about sadness over a lost happiness. They tell of how time has not been kind and the past was much better than the present. "It is a sadness that began in Poe's childhood with his father's desertion and the death of his m
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His horrifying words deal with sin and crime, grim fatality, death and survival after death (Gale 9). Still on the down side of things William Henry Leonard Poe died in Baltimore after twenty-four years rendered so in part by alcoholism (Gale 3). Over a time span of fifteen years Poe wrote many poems for contest, newspapers, and magazines; he wrote some collections as well. A third death that troubled Poe was the death of his foster father John Allan who died in 1834. He spent mot of his time around other men; women were not a big part of his life. Hungry and disappointed Poe returned to Baltimore to live with his widowed aunt, Maria Poe Clemm, who was already caring for Poe's brother William, an alcoholic. Poe did all of this before he had fully entered manhood. The first poetry Poe had released came shortly after. In "The Lake", Poe hints of suicide as an escape from earthly worries. In this, he makes great use of effects and rhyme. Creditably enough John Phelps Fruit, author of "the Mind and Art of Poe," believed that in "Al Aaraaf" Poe intends to teach….
In "The Lake" described the pain experienced by someone who has lost a loved one to the grave:
In youth's spring, it was my lot
To haunt of the wide earth a spot
To which I could not love the less;
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pine that tower'd around. other-a dark sadness that continued throughout his life" (Gale 3).
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