One of my favorite stories by Poe that illustrates this theme is “The Raven.” In “The Rave,” the narrator’s lost love, Lenore, died of a mystery illness (possibly tuberculosis.). The narrator spends most of the poem grieving for Lenore and hoping, praying and wishing that she would come back. He is in so much grief that he even thinks that a raven was sent to tell him that he was never going to see her again. I think that each time he brought up this theme when he w

as writing, he was grieving for his own lost love, Virginia.

As one can see from these examples, Poe obviously used his life as an example for a lot of his stories and poems. Parts of his life are the same as some of his stories, and I think that the death of Virginia influenced a lot of his writing.

A slightly different example of this theme is Matt Hynson’s presentation of “The Oval Portrait.” This story was also told from the view of a narrator, but the narrator was just witnessing a series of events leading to a woman’s death. In summary, a painter decides to paint his true love, and as he paints she slowly becomes more and more decrepit until, when at last the painting is finished, she dies. In this story, Poe tells of a man who is responsible for his lover’s death. I think this story might be similar to the way Edgar Allen Poe

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