What Is Edgar Allan Poe's Death

Edgar Allen Poe led an interesting life in the early to mid-1800s, though his parents (David Poe Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Poe) died when Edgar was at the age of two, he was taken in by a John Allan who was in the business of exporting tobacco; His Sister, Rosalie was taken by William Mackenzie and his wife, while his brother Henry was left in Baltimore with his grandparents. Though Edgar Allen Poe was taken in by John Allan, they still had their disputes, primarily about Edgars’ debts that of which revolved primarily around gambling, which ended up in him being forced to withdraw from the University of Virginia after less than a year and later intentionally getting himself court-martialed and discharged from the Army and West Point Academy in
By 1845, Edgar left the New York Mirror and joined the Broadway Journal where he eventually became one of the owners until publication came to an end for it in 1846. Virginia Poe Died in 1847 of tuberculosis, which began the end of Edgar Allan Poe. Shortly after Virginia Poe died, Edgar fell ill, though he never fully recovered. In 1848, Edgar became engaged to Sarah Whitman, only for the engagement to be called off because of Sarah Whitman’s family having issues with the relationship between her and Edgar. Later in 1849, he was once again engaged to be married, his bride to be was Sarah Elmira Royster, his childhood sweetheart. Unfortunately in 1849, while he was found blatantly drunk on the streets of Baltimore, he was hospitalized and died of Delirium Tremens, which is a severe form of alcohol withdraw, which ultimately ended his life at the age of forty years old. He was buried in Westminster Burying Ground, in his grandfather’s lot. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was a difficult journey that shows through in his literary works and writings; the theme, topics and overall moods that appear to be present in his poems and short stories tend to relate to his overall life
Her death could not have come as a surprise to Edgar, it was a long and brutal path of financial desperation. By the time that he wrote “The Raven” he most likely had the thought in his head that either Virginia was going to die soon because of her illness or because of his impending failure to be able to finance her medical treatments. Though he had found a method of monetizing his popularity as a literary critic and writer through joining the lecture circuit and speaking about poetry and critical reviews across the cities of America, it still did not provide enough monetary funding to support his