Edgar Allan Poe
Jackson Huang
ENG4U
Mr. Andersen
June 3rd, 2014
The Marginal man Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 and died at October 7th, 1849. Author of many famous short stories, poems, etc. and considered part of the Dark Romanticism because of his unique dark, obscure, macabre poems. The one that excels from the other has been “The Raven." Edgar Allan Poe was considered as an outsider at his time because he blocked himself from other, also considered as a degenerate sad drunk and his reaction after his wife died.
Edgar’s father left him, and his mother died at early age. At school, he was considered a mischievous child, and quoting him as “excitable temperament with a great deal of self-esteem” (DiscoverMagazine.com.). Poe always received negative comments. So much that he started to be incredibly defensive “Classmate stated that he was incredibly defensive and did not allow to get close.”(DiscoverMagazine.com). But what can you expect from a child that was abandon by his parent and did not have someone beside to lead him the right way.
Secondly, he was considered alcoholic. He drank every time he was morose, which was almost every time, after all the traumatic experience he has been thru . He believed that it was his only way to escape from the real world. Even in his work place he was renowned as: “chronically melancholic, and acquiring the nickname ‘the man who never smiles’” (DiscoverMagazine.com.). After years of drinking his body, eventually got deteriorated and also leading to death.
Lastly, he fell in love with a women but she was very sick. At that time medications were expensive and Poe didn’t have the money. His acquaintances tried to help him by donating money but he was so proud that reject all of it. After his wife death he was depressed, he didn’t care about anything else. After Virginia’s death he bought a property away from Baltimore, Maryland where he decided to wait until his death.
Edgar Alan Poe had a life full
ENG4U
Mr. Andersen
June 3rd, 2014
The Marginal man Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19th, 1809 and died at October 7th, 1849. Author of many famous short stories, poems, etc. and considered part of the Dark Romanticism because of his unique dark, obscure, macabre poems. The one that excels from the other has been “The Raven." Edgar Allan Poe was considered as an outsider at his time because he blocked himself from other, also considered as a degenerate sad drunk and his reaction after his wife died.
Edgar’s father left him, and his mother died at early age. At school, he was considered a mischievous child, and quoting him as “excitable temperament with a great deal of self-esteem” (DiscoverMagazine.com.). Poe always received negative comments. So much that he started to be incredibly defensive “Classmate stated that he was incredibly defensive and did not allow to get close.”(DiscoverMagazine.com). But what can you expect from a child that was abandon by his parent and did not have someone beside to lead him the right way.
Secondly, he was considered alcoholic. He drank every time he was morose, which was almost every time, after all the traumatic experience he has been thru . He believed that it was his only way to escape from the real world. Even in his work place he was renowned as: “chronically melancholic, and acquiring the nickname ‘the man who never smiles’” (DiscoverMagazine.com.). After years of drinking his body, eventually got deteriorated and also leading to death.
Lastly, he fell in love with a women but she was very sick. At that time medications were expensive and Poe didn’t have the money. His acquaintances tried to help him by donating money but he was so proud that reject all of it. After his wife death he was depressed, he didn’t care about anything else. After Virginia’s death he bought a property away from Baltimore, Maryland where he decided to wait until his death.
Edgar Alan Poe had a life full