"big crybaby?"
How about "hysterical?"
(I've been reading his letters to his girlfriends. Ye gods! Dry up, Eddy!)
;-)
2007-03-05 00:38:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Don't get me wrong - he is one of my favorite writers (would I be doing all this extra research if he wasnt'?)
He also just seems to have been a guy that was constantly writing the most melodramatic, near suicidal love letters to assorted women (sometimes several at once) ...
2007-03-05 03:09:44 · update #1
Yes. He was a genius and all geniuses are off in some way or another. Plus he was quite disturbed -- lucky for us -- or he wouldn't have been able to write such great macabre.
2007-03-05 01:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Ya Ya 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He had a rough life. His father abandoned the family when the was very young, and his mother died soon after. He also had a younger sister to look after.
This was the Romantic period, and people were more sensitive and open. It was common to die young, so I think people lived more openly. Also, without television, movies and other mass media to shape our definition of "real men", this type of man was more acceptible. I would think, to women, preferable than the caveman type who beat his woman, etc.
It would be unfair, IMO, to judge him by today's standards.
2007-03-05 09:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey don't say bad things about him.
So what about his letters, at least he was in touch with life.
He is a fantastic writer, some of his works are unbelievable.quite alot have been made into to films.
2007-03-05 09:07:44 · answer #3 · answered by midnightfolkuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it would be very unfair. He suffered greatly in his life. Poverty illness and his ability as a writer was ridiculed. Before you criticize a great poet and writer, walk a mile in his shoes. I doubt that anyone today would survive.
2007-03-05 08:59:40 · answer #4 · answered by flieder77 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes it would... edgar allan poe is by far one of the best writer... i his life was hard and he's sensitive... which makes him a great writer...
2007-03-05 09:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by ieja 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a very fragile man. But it made him a gifted writer.
2007-03-05 08:40:52 · answer #6 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
EAP was quite a disturbed fella.
2007-03-05 08:41:01 · answer #7 · answered by Terri J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think it would be offenseve,.,,
2007-03-05 09:26:10 · answer #8 · answered by chicago cub's bat bunny 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋