Influences On Edgar Allan Poe's Life
Edgar Allan Poe
Although Edgar Allan Poe endured many hardships and suffered many losses throughout his life, he resorted to his passion of poetry to help him cope with the loss. He lost his mother to tuberculosis and his father abandoned him and his siblings when he was just a young boy. Poe was too young to be influenced by the death of his mother at the time it occurred, but later reflections in adulthood led him to grieve for how much better his home life would have been if he had never had to live with a foster family (wiseGEEK..). All of Poe’s experiences are reflected in all of his works; including, poems, short stories, and tales.
Edgar Allan Poe was taken in by a wealthy tobacco merchant, John Allan and his wife, Frances Valentine Allan on a farm in Richmond soon after the death of his mother. As for his brother and sister, they were sent to other families throughout the country. …show more content…
His mother’s death by tuberculosis, would be a common source of death of the loved ones later in his life.
As Edgar Allan Poe grew older, he wrote on the back of Allan’s ledger sheets showing that he had little interest in the tobacco business. By the age of thirteen, Poe had written enough poetry to publish a book, but Allan was against it (Edgar Allan Poe Museum..). Allan wanted him to become a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe wanted differently. He had dreams of becoming a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet, Lord
Although Edgar Allan Poe endured many hardships and suffered many losses throughout his life, he resorted to his passion of poetry to help him cope with the loss. He lost his mother to tuberculosis and his father abandoned him and his siblings when he was just a young boy. Poe was too young to be influenced by the death of his mother at the time it occurred, but later reflections in adulthood led him to grieve for how much better his home life would have been if he had never had to live with a foster family (wiseGEEK..). All of Poe’s experiences are reflected in all of his works; including, poems, short stories, and tales.
Edgar Allan Poe was taken in by a wealthy tobacco merchant, John Allan and his wife, Frances Valentine Allan on a farm in Richmond soon after the death of his mother. As for his brother and sister, they were sent to other families throughout the country. …show more content…
His mother’s death by tuberculosis, would be a common source of death of the loved ones later in his life.
As Edgar Allan Poe grew older, he wrote on the back of Allan’s ledger sheets showing that he had little interest in the tobacco business. By the age of thirteen, Poe had written enough poetry to publish a book, but Allan was against it (Edgar Allan Poe Museum..). Allan wanted him to become a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe wanted differently. He had dreams of becoming a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet, Lord