Poe

I think it is interesting looking at an authors past because there are definitely moments and reasons that affect everyones writing.  I don't research authors usually but I think it is important to do so for Edgar Allen Poe.  And while reading his biography, I came to the conclusion that he had a pretty rough life.  He lost his parents, his foster mom, and his wife.  As well as his fiance left him, his foster dad excluded him, and he basically lived in poverty.
But what's cool is that Poe doesn't hide these things in his writing you can easily see the correlation of these events to what he writes about.  For example, there is his work of "Ligeria" which explains loosing someone that you love.  Which was probably based off of his experience with his wife.
And I think it was these losses he faced that maybe transformed him into a Romantic-style author.  I think because he faced so much misery that he didn’t feel guilty questioning his surroundings and what had happened to him.  From what we talked about in class, in The Raven he is questioning what really happens when we die.  If there is a underworld, a Heaven and Hell, or if there is simply nothing.  He definitely uses the 5 I’s in his writing.  And I think it is a combination of this and the somberness of his writing that make it so interesting.