Depression In Edgar Allan Poe's Life

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Caitlin DesVergnes English 3 Honors Mrs. Reed Depression: The grieve over the loss of loved ones In the 1800’s, when poverty had struck most parts of New England, lower class families struggled for survival. Most families could barely support themselves and it made it difficult to for husbands or wives to support their families. Because of the time period and the conditions of the city, medical conditions, health problems, etc. were a big problem and left many to die. On January 9, 1809 a poet was born into a middle class family. The new born, that would later be a famous poet, was Edgar Poe. Edgar passed away at the age of 40 on October 7, 1849 after living a life full of…show more content…
His major influence is the death of those close to him, mostly family. Death is a significant influence because all the pain and suffering he feels and had to live with is what created his astonishing art work. The poems show all the feelings he had undergone at that point in his life but it also gave him the ideas of what to write thus causing magnificent poems/short stories. One poem that Edgar had written was, “The City in the Sea.” He wrote this poem about how he perceives death and all the effects that death causes when it comes around. Since he had so many deaths in his life he wrote this poem to express how he sees death taking over locations that were once spectacular and are now in grieve and the absence of the liveliness. This poem shows an image of how death rises and becomes a higher power and taking away the light. The outcome of all the pain and horror that follows in deaths footprints in a city isolated by water is seen as a putrid…show more content…
All of the good things of the once lively city had gone away while the evil starts to build up its power and the city is in ruins. The message Edgar is trying to send out is that even the most beautiful things in life may be covered in darkness and the beauty of it all is gone. As I have mentioned Edgar had lost his mother, his brother, eventually his father, and his cousin/wife to death and it left his mind in dark shadows causing grieve and depression. Edgar Allan Poe had developed a drinking problem later on in life because he couldn’t live with reality. I have lost someone close to me and I know that darkness falls and it can bring you to a very depressed state, which is where Edgar had fallen. He didn’t have his mother there to help his deal with the stresses of life and knowing his father didn’t want to be with him had left him empty and alone. In the poem he mentions heaven and how nothing more had come from

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