Edgar Allan Poe is one of the world’s most famous writers. Poe was born on January 19,1809 in Boston Massachusetts, he had a hard life from the age of three to the day he died. Poe had had a lot of life challenges, especially when he was a young adult. Poe got famous for his graphic and depressing poems, his first writing to get really popular was The Raven. The Raven is still one of the most well known poems that is known around the world.
When Edgar Poe was three his parents died due to tuberculosis, his parents were touring actors. Poe went to live with foster parents and that’s where he gets Allan from, since his foster parents last name was Allan. His foster mom had died from tuberculosis as well, as soon as his foster mom died his foster father gave him away to his uncle.
Poe was kicked out of college and then got into another college that’s when he started writing. At 24 he married his 13 year old cousin, when she turned 24 she had died from tuberculosis as well. Also, his brother died from alcoholism, basically everyone the Poe cared about was dying. These events all kind of set his imagination for his graphic and depressing writings.
Poe’s poem The Raven was published in January 1845. It was the first writing of Poe’s that went through the roof popular, after that all his poems went through the roof. He became a well known writer. People were fans of Edgar Allan Poe because of how interesting his poems were, and how kind of graphic and mysterious they were. All of the deaths and events that happened around Poe were his inspirations and he just made it a bigger story with his imagination. From the 1820’s to the 1840’s Poe had published many short stories and poems.
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, he had disappeared from Boston and no one knew where he was until the found him outside of a tavern on the side of the street very drunk and wearing someone else’s clothes. His short stories and poems still live on today and are very popular around America. Still the most important poem from him is The Raven, it is used in schools and known by many people. ho revolutionized the gothic poem
