The Many Loved Ones In Edgar Allan Poe's Life

Edgar Allan Poe lost many loved ones throughout his life. Poe lost his mother, his adoptive mother, his wife Virginia, and a young lover; the many deaths of Poe’s loved ones impacted his writing very much. First, in 1829 when Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem Alone it was the same year that his adoptive mother died from tuberculosis. In the poem Alone Poe states “all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—” which means that whenever he had loved someone or something he loved it alone, with no one to love it with him. In addition, Poe wrote the poem Annabelle Lee, Annabelle Lee was about a young couple who loved each other so much that the angels in heaven were jealous of them so they killed the young girl. “The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying