I think this due simply to the fact that we all have a darker side within, whether we like to admit it or not. We all wonder about death and want to know what it is like, because we are all going to die. We just don’t like to show it for fear that people will look down upon us. He became so well known for this very reason, his writings gave people an idea of the dark side. Of

I guess he really wasn’t crazy, or who am I to say anyways? I mean we thought men were crazy when they said that the earth wasn’t flat, or when they claimed that man would walk on the moon, and even that one day every person would have a computer in his home. He was actually just doing his job, he was an author so of course he wrote stories, most of which spark people so greatly that even today they criticize him. So how can we call him a crazy man, rather he was a genius, he was the first to openly write about death, and he was the best at it. He knew how to capture the reader’s attention, and drive them nuts with certain ideas that he posed. Whether Poe wrote of death because of depression, disease, personal losses, insanity, or simply because he may have been the only man bold enough to face the one thing that everyone fears, he will always be famous for fascinating stories of death.

And this is what has made people so interested in Poe for all of these years, and unless we can ever escape death and fear, it will continue to draw people in.

In one of Poe’s poems he wrote by this very idea. He wrote about what he lost, or what he could not have. In “The Raven” a bird repeats “nevermore” over and over to all of his questions about his dead lover. He repeatedly asks the bird questions and still gets only one answer. Here he is dealing with death as a loss, and it was the loss a very beautiful woman. But for him beauty was defined differently than it is now; it is not flowers and butterflies, to him beauty was anything that excited your soul. So by his definition death is one of the most beautiful things one can ever experience. "Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones" He missed this woman terribly and the raven’s, “nevermore” seems to be a reminder that she will never be back. This is a very good example that Poe was not at all afraid of death. This poem may be one of the most important writings of Poe because it can cancel the idea that he was crazy. He deals with death so much in his work that it is an easy way to for us to explain what we don’t know. Even today, when some one has a mental problem that is not understood, we

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