just events and things which are said to have influenced his writing.
why did he have an obsession about death?
2007-01-24 14:44:13 · 4 answers · asked by gutter_flower 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Oh, Edgar Allen Poe, what a crappy life. Well, everyone around him died of consumption, including his wife, who was actually his 14 year old cousin. He proposed to her in a cemetary.
the fascination with death has got to come from all of the deaths that he witnessed in his life. You'd be traumatized too.
Read Masque of the Red Death, and that will give you some good chills as well and his view on consumption.
2007-01-24 14:51:36 · answer #1 · answered by SigmundFreud 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Poe was ahead of his time and what I think influenced him was his use of drugs and drinking.Where else would he have came up with some of the stuuff he did?
2007-01-24 22:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jim C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, he was a sophisticated writer, right? there was a popular macabre genre in his days and that is what he was writing in, i think. he invented the modern mystery story, it is said, with his story the murders in the rue morgue. maybe he was depressed if he was obsessed with death or maybe that's just what he thought was cool.
2007-01-24 23:04:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
are you talking about tell-tale-heart?
2007-01-24 22:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by samanthalovekitty@pacbell.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋