could be his mother, and it's about how he is going insane wondering about the afterlife. Most stories that Poe wrote are all about death
When Poe was growing up he was very poor and when he asked his foster dad for money he didn’t give him any. Poe wrote a short story called Eldorado. Eldorado was about this land of gold and how nobody could find it and whoever tries to find it dies. He probably wrote Eldorado towards his because he was looking for money and he didn’t give him any. Throughout Poe’s life he was very poor.
Poe was an alcoholic which made him very paranoid. “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” was about him being really paranoid. In the Tell Tale Heart he was going mad because he thought the old man was a threat. In “The Black Cat” he was very paranoid about the cat liking his wife so throughout the story he killed his cat and his wife. Poe also wrote “The Cask Of Amontillado” which could refer him wanting to drink.
Poe wrote a lot of stories that relate to his life. He couldn’t keep his feelings inside so he wrote get them out. Death, money and his drinking has all affected his writing.