Edgar Allan Poe was an early to mid 19th century writer, poet and artist. Unlike most of his fellow writers Poe had very depressing and morbid stories to tell, and until later on after his death not many people knew why this was so. As other writers and poets told of the make believe or how things could be better, he focused on the supernatural and making sure his true emotions would show through his words. He was not a believer of covering up the truth as he saw it just to appeal to the faint hearted. During this time of Poe’s almost perpetual down slope until his death, tuberculosis was taking the lives of many American people. It killed approximately 10,000 people per day, out of these thousands dead Poe lost many loved ones to this ravenous disease including his biological mother, his brother and his angel upon the earth, Virginia Clemm (his wife and cousin). This idea of women being “angels” began at an early age subsequent to his mother’s death, when Poe was age three,......

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