Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19, 1809. The wonderful American author, poet, literary critic, and overall literature legend. We all know him for many of his wonderful pieces in literature. We all know of the dark, evil and deep situations put into his work, but the question remains as to where it all comes from. What is the base from this man becoming all of which we know him to be today? Well, it is said that Poe had a very tough childhood. His father left home when he was young and soon after that his mother passed away, leaving him to become an orphan. Because Poe's work is so dark and mysterious, I connected his childhood to the deep meanings in each of his pieces. He was known to be the creator of detective fiction: which is said to have a mixture of crime, mystery and usually including murder or some kind of death. Also, Poe growing up closer to poor than anything, could have also been a large factor in his writing. So what it is that enhances Poe's deeper meaning in his work is the struggle it was said that he had before rising to the top through expressing himself quietly in his poems, stories and so on.
There is a quote from Eleonora, that states "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
This quote can be an expression of how Poe started with what many can say is nothing and ended up with so much more than anyone would have automatically thought of him gaining. He can easily be expressing how to be poor or having any specific childhood should not and does not determine the future as long as you use intelligence and use a lot of good thought into whatever you do. There is a sad, dark and mysterious mood and meaning in Poe's work, but throughout it all, can it express any good?
