how edgar allen poe`s life intersects or parallels his work

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19 April 2007

How Edgar Allen Poe`s Life Intersects or Parallels his Work

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American poet , short story writer literary critic and editor . Edgar Allan Poe was a leader of the American Romantics and founder of detective and crime fiction genres . Thesis Life troubles and grievances , desperation and anxiety had a great impact on themes and settings of his works unveiling hardship and sufferings experienced by the author

His life was full of grievances and desperation reflected

in most of his poems and short stories . Since yearly childhood , poverty and lack of money was the main problems faced by Poe . Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19 , 1809 . Both of his parents died very soon leaving three children (his father died in 1810 and his mother died in 1811 (Silverman 7 . Poe was grown up in the family of John Allan prosperous Scottish tobacco merchant , in Richmond . Poe had numerous quarrels with his guardian John Allan , and was hurt by his refusal to adopt Edgar Poe . Thus , Poe took his middle name Allan (Davidson 28 . Poe was not a happy child because his step father did not love him and did not take care about him . In the poem Alone ' he writes : From childhood 's hour I have not been / As others were / I have not seen / As others saw I could not bring / My passions from a common spring (Poe 2007 . In 10 years , after learning that John Allan 's health was quickly failing , Poe called at his Richmond home in mid-February in a last bid to regain Allan 's favor . Again , Allan refused to adopt Edgar Poe (Davidson 47 . Family relations , violence and oppression reflected in many of his works . In the poem Silence , Poe writes : Some human memories and tearful lore / Render him terrorless : his name 's "No More (Poe 2007

Most of his early works were based on the theme of poverty , economic crisis and unemployment . The household was poverty stricken , he himself was not in very good health part of the time (Allen n .d . In 1838 appeared Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ' the longest tale , where the secret theme is the terror of whiteness . Poe 's first collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque , appeared in 1840 . Poe was a keen observer of economic relations . As the foster child of John Allan Poe grew up speaking the language of commerce . Dinner conversations in the Allan household ranged from the perils of price fluctuations to the economic consequences of political instability in Europe . Living with relatives in poverty , Poe wrote Folio Club ' story , The Visionary In "The Tales of the Folio Club " the narrator , a disaffected member of the club , unflatteringly describes the members as "quite as ill-looking as they are stupid (Edgar Allan Poe n .d . This literary collection reflects his world views and society he was a part . Some critics (Hayes 38 ) admit that poverty was not a...