The Influence of Women on Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was a nineteenth century writer who, unlike most of his peers, wrote stories that were morbid and the macabre. It wasnt until aft(prenominal) his death that it was revealed wherefore this was so. Poe stories concentrate on the wizardly and macabre, make sure his true emotions would come on through his words. He was not a believer of cover song up the truth as he saw it besides to appeal to the faint hearted. During this meter of Poes almost perpetual gobble up slope until his death, tuberculosis was pickings the lives of many American people. It killed around 10,000 people per day, out of these thousands bushed(p) Poe lost many love hotshots to this ravenous disease including his biological mother, his brother and his angel upon the earth, Virginia Clemm (his married woman and full cousin).\nThis idea of women being angels began at an early age consequent to his mothers death, when Poe was age three, and it left him super vulnerable. This is where it is believed Poes infatuation with women and his belief of their sweet-flavored characteristics came from. All through conduct Poe courted women, sometimes more than maven at a time, this is why in many of Poes literary pieces he speaks of women or the sorrows of love. On the other hand Poe wrote of death, disease, and wizard(prenominal) occurrences either side by side or screen from his romantic pieces. Some of these supernatural pieces were overmuch more face-to-face for Poe such as The pig and The Fall of the House of Usher. Although two poems reflect his personal manner in some panache The Raven is a much more accurate picture of his personal experiences.\nThe death of Virginia Clemm, his cousin - and later wife - was one of the most difficult deaths he had to endure. Her death led to a finis of hard crapulence and staying up all hours to finder over her sculpt, sometimes til now sleeping on her grave to be closer to her. This period of despair and disorie ntation followed the fundament of The Raven. Although The Raven�...