... with the women he loved. Both his mother and his wife died young, leaving gaping wounds in Poe's heart. These particular losses resonate through virtually all of his writing, lending a very personal credibility that casts a shadow over the readers perception of the author. Poe also struggled extensively with both personal and professional issues. He is famously remembered being financially and ... he regard academics as an equal regardless of subject, he considers it equally accessible by anyone capable of following the steps of proper learning. He does not even qualify that generalizat...

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... most part, sane at the beginning of the story. When he first sees the decaying and crumbling House of Usher, he begins to feel "...an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart -- an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime" (Poe 1). While these feelings strike fear in his heart, the narrator is able to reassure ... himself that "...there are certain combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us" (Poe 1). He thinks about ... and the supernatural, books that are "...in strict k...

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