The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe

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than them, he simply did not have the genealogy and they reminded him of it often. The first poetry he had released came shortly after this time. It was in no way concerned with his alma mater, it was more concerned with happiness lost and how the his life was miserable due to a rude awakening. His poem "Tamerlane" tells how ambition for youthful dreams killed love. In "The Lake", Poe hints of suicide as an escape from earthly worries. Poe did all of this before he had fully entered manhood. He almost seemed to enjoy feeling melancholy and depressed.
About this time in his life, Poe joined the army. Here he was not chided for not being part of the upper class. He liked feeling intellectually superior to those around him and liked the prospect of being a military officer. He withdrew from the army to apply to West Point. While waiting for appointment, a process that can take a great deal of time, he issued a seventy-one page volume called "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and ...

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also be a reference to the legend that crows carry souls to the land of the dead (yes, this is a real legend it is not just from the movie "The Crow"). The raven tortures the man by repeating the word "nevermore," constantly reminding the man that he will never again see his love. Obviously, the man represents Poe. The woman could be either Jane or his wife, although the poem was written before her death it seems more likely that the woman is his wife, Virginia. The raven could stand for a number of things. It could stand for his wife's illness, constantly reminding him that he is going to lose her at some point. It could stand for the loneliness he knows he will feel after his ...

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