Poe's Life

Poe’s isolation as an orphan separated from his siblings and his unique artistic perceptions gave him his Muse of melancholy and a personal ideal to pursue. He found his literary inspiration in the character and works of the contemporary British Romantics; especially I would say Byron in imitation of his works and sympathy for his primary inspiration that spoke to Poe's own. His education and skills in literary and science subjects at college and West Point gave him balance in his mind when home and loves were shaky or lost. He was poor most of his life unlike the British poets who usually had means to throw themselves out into Bohemian lifestyles. Poe sought work in magazines and other odd jobs, quit...