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Edgar Allan Poe

            
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             Some people always look at the bad side of things instead of the good side. This is called pessimism. Edgar Allan Poe could be recognized as the king of pessimism. He is known for his tales of the mysterious and macabre. His dark and twisted works are filled with pessimism. Poe was a person who had faced many troubling experiences throughout his life. To escape from his saddened world, Poe drank and wrote short stories and poems with a pessimistic outlook. Being a pessimist is what made Poe such a great and creative writer. He brought out his dark side in his work. It seems that all of his stories and poems are laced with pessimism. Pessimism was like Poe's warm blanket. He had a sad life, which definitely contributed to his writing. Poe's poem "The Raven" greatly reflects his own life and his feelings after the death of his wife Virginia.
             Of Poe's entire life "The Raven" is said to be Poe's best-known and written work. It is about a lover lamenting his dead mistress. It makes it clear that the death of a beautiful woman was for him the supremely interesting subject, and that the most appropriate tone of a poem is melancholy, and certainly there can be no subject more melancholy than the loss of beauty through death (Minor 2244). The autobiographical element in this poem can be noticed. As a young child Poe's father abandoned them and he lost his mother. John and Fanny Allan took him home, but they did not formally adopt him (Qrisse). John was always too busy with work, and he was not very close to his stepmother. He led a lonely and unhappy life separated from his siblings. As he grew older his differences with John grew. At fifteen, an older woman whom he loved as a combination of mother and romantic lover died (she was the mother of a friend). In his teens, his girlfriends" father married her off to someone else, and his age undoubtedly made the loss more traumatic for him (Minor 2244).


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