Edgar Allan Poe was a great poem and short story writer, who's work is usually very dark, mysterious and sad. An example of this is "The Raven". "The Raven" is about a man sitting in his room when a bird appears and says "nevermore". The man slowly starts to realize this has a darker meaning as he asks the bird about his dead family and all the bird reply's is "nevermore".
In Poe's life many of his family died which is probably why his writing is so dark. It seems mean to say this but in the end it seems good what happened because it influenced Poe to write such fantastic stories.
Poe was found on a street in strange clothing and later died in the hospital. It seems to match his poetry which was always mysterious for him to die like this.
It does sounds a little mean to say that it's a good thing that Poe experienced many deaths and betrayals in his life, but I agree. This influenced Poe's writing, and this stories have quite the impression.
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It's definately evident that the main influence for his works was the death and heartbreak he expierenced in his life. It seems, especially in the raen that Poe has been haunted with the idea that death may be the end, with no afterlife. But not only was it the fact that there was much death in his life, but also the fact that death was reoccuring in his life as if chasing him.
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