Linking edgar allan poe to the
Linking edgar allan poe to theEdgar Allan Poe was an author who wrote dark and sinister stories and poems and whose motives in writing such works were closely related to his life. Edgar Allan Poe has captured the attention of many of his readers, but what is not said is that his life affected his works. His dark and sinister works link the innermost side of Poe to that of his pieces. One of his most famous poems is "The Raven." Woodberry stated in his 1st volume of The Life of Edgar Allan Poe that, "…'The Raven' and 'Ulalume' are in his poetry, the richest of his imaginative work." The poem gives many insights to Poe's life. The poem is about a man in a room all by himself. "Leave my loneliness unbroken!" (Poe) He is then visited by a raven, which says nothing, but "Nevermore." It brings out the thoughts and feelings of the lonely man. This lonely man (the name of the man was never mentioned), is like a mirror image of Poe.
During the time that Poe was rewriting "The Raven" (the original was written ten years before), life was really hard for him.
"He had been for ten years a writer of untiring industry, and in that time had produced an amount of work large in quantity and excellent in quality, much of it belonging in the very highest rank of imaginative prose; but his books had never sold, and the income from his tales and other papers in the magazines when he was not attached to a magazine had never suffice to keep the wolf from the door." (Woodberry 2: 72)
Hard times fell on Poe like raindrops falling onto the ground. The money needed to sustain his day to day needs proved insufficient. He had written many works in ten years and. Although his works were abundant, money wasn't. In Short, Poe had a hard time selling his works and was poorly paid. "'A host of small troubles growing from the one trouble of poverty….'" (Woodberry 2: 103)
"'You speak of "estimate of my life," --- and, from what I have already said, you will see that I have none to give.'" (Woodberry 2: 93) His regard for himself was small. In direct contrast was his regard for his works. "'I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability and evanescence of temporal things to give any continuous effort to anything --- to be consistent in anything. My life has been whim --- impulse --- passion --- a longing for solitude --- a scorn of all things present, in an earnest desire for the future.'" (Woodberry 2: 93) This passion, and desire for the future fueled Poe to write more.
Many of Poe's feelings are portrayed...
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