... his teen hood fiancées. He became engaged to Whitman but that ended when he called upon her when he was drunk. In 1849 Poe wrote his last poem "Annabel Lee- and had a relatively stable life. But on October 3, 1849, on Election Day Poe was found ill, lying half conscious in the street outside of a polling place and a few yards from ... . He has written some timely works like "the Fall of the House of Usher-, The Masque of the Red Death,"" "The Cask of Amontillado-, Murders in the rue Morque- and "Annabel Lee-. From his works were born four new genres of literature, detective fiction, the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... invalid until her death from tuberculosis five years later. After the death of his wife, Poe began to lose his struggle with drinking and drugs. He addressed the famous poem 'Annabel Lee' (Haugen 70) (1849) to her - its subject, Poe's favorite, is the death of a beautiful woman. Munch and Poe both lost very important people in their lives also influenced them both ... ...

• Word Count: 1597
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• Grade Level: High School