The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe

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her death, he was then separated from his
younger sister, Rosalie. Another major low point in his life was the death
of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, and his foster father disowning
him, all at one time. The most significant set-back to Edgar Allan Poe was
the death of his cousin/wife Virginia Clemm. This single incident was the
cause of almost all of his feelings of isolation in his in his adulthood.
He felt as though anyone he became close to would die.
Poe wrote about isolation in many of his most popular works. "A
Dream Within a Dream" was not one of his more popular poems, but it
discussed the difficult process of having to say good-bye to a loved one.
He also wrote, "The Raven," in which the narrator went insane talking to a
bird about losing his lost Lenore and realizing he was all alone. A third
poem in which Poe revealed to the reader his feelings of loneliness was,
The Cask of Amontillado. In this story, the main character Fortunato, was
left to die ...

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Cat. The character took the eyes out of the first cat
and then killed it. After that he proceeded to "accidentally" kill his
wife with an ax, and bury her in a wall. Another example of Poe's insanity
demonstrated within his works was located in The Tell Tale Heart, where
Edgar stalked a man and eventually killed him. He then dismembered the
body, took out his heart, and buried the man under the house. He later
confessed to the police because he believed he could hear the heartbeat of
the man.
Formed very early in his life, Edgar Allan Poe had quite an
attraction to females. It began when his father left him at the age of two
and never returned, thus he never had a real father ...

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