... dark and gloomy moods through the use of the themes death, revenge and destruction, and the use of gothic settings. He filled his stories with grotesque details like burying people alive, murder, decaying mansions, and people plagued with insanity. Unlike Hawthorne, Poe did not give many examples of moral messages in his work because he wanted readers to come to their own ... , she died after a five year battle with tuberculosis. Poe never got over her death and many think that she is the motivation behind his works that revolved around death and insanity (Sova, 34-35). Growing up he was...

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... of Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, Edgar A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser-known stories to his most famous poem, "The Raven". This great man's life has been analyzed to death (no pun intended) to find key's to unlock ... theme of "The Raven" is simple: a speaking raven, which's repetitious, visits a man suffering the loss of his love, answers torture him to the point of insanity (Decoder, Internet). The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the death of Poe's wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, I...

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