r melancholy, with lips moving in indistinct curses'" by the Reverend Rufus Griswald to "fallen angel who remembered heaven" by Baudelaire (Asselineau 11). Asselineau believes:
             These divergences are indeed perfectly justified and stem to a large extent from the constant contrast between the real and the Ideal (the capital was his) in Poe's own life and from the consequent duplicity (in the etymological meaning of the word) of his personality (12).
             Never the less, despite all the discrepancies, his life was clearly not one of complete happiness. Many would argue that Poe's life of sorrow is what made him the great writer he is considered to be today.
             In his stories he illustrates how the absence of beauty is the essence of evil. In "The Tell Tale Heart" when the old man's eyes is closed he would not be killed because his eye is not considered ugly. That is why each night the man goes into his room to see if the eye is open.
             I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights-every night just at midnight-but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his E
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