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Edgar Allan Poe By: James Williams In every story conceived from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, a scent of his essence had been molded into each to leave the reader with a better understanding of Poe's life. Poe displayed his greatest life's achievements and his worst disappointments in a series of stories created throughout his whole life. It is the goal of this research paper to reveal symbolic facts about his life and define these hidden maxims in a way that is easy to understand and beneficial to the reader. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts ("Poe, Edgar Allan," Encyclopedia Britannica 540). Poe's parents were David Poe, an actor based in Baltimore and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, an actress born in England, also based in Baltimore (540). Upon birth, Poe had been cursed. Shortly after his birth, Poe's father abandoned the family and left Poe and his mother to fend for themselves. Not long after that, the cruel hands of fate had worked their hor!rid magic once again by claiming his mother. In 1811, when Poe was two, his mother passed away, leaving him with his second depressing loss (540). After his father's cowardly retreat and mother's sudden death, Poe was left in the capable hand of his godfat
New York, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987: 121-145. In 1847, Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis and in doing so added one more name to Poe's list of lost loves ("Poe, Edgar Allan," World Book Encyclopedia 591). His characters' profiles possess biographical insights into his loved ones' lives. Poe is a genius in the fact that he can captivate a reader with his true-to-life stories and then explains himself through allusions and hidden maxims. (Buranelli 38) Despite the tremendous agony Poe felt over Virginia! Clemm's death, he still passed a sigh of relief over her passing. And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, a wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabel Lee; so that her highborn kinsman came and bor!e her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea. In one particular case, Poe wrote a passage in his story of "Marginalia" that could only apply to a person such as himself: I have sometimes amused myself by endeavoring to fancy what would be the fate of any individual gifted, or rather accursed, with an intellect very far superior to that of his race. "Edgar Allan Poe, The Dark Genius of the Short Story. Along with writing about his style of writing, Poe also included autobiographical elements in his stories. In 1848, Poe explained his theories on the universe in his well-known piece, "Eureka" ("Poe, Edgar Allan," World Book Encyclopedia 592). Poe also used his memory of past events and places to set the backdrop for his pieces of literature.
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