What influenced Edgar Allan Poes Works?
The life of Edgar Allan Poe, as with the lives of many geniuses, was filled with tragedies that all influenced his craft. From the very beginning of his writing career, he loved writing poems for the loves of his life. Later, when he reached adulthood and realized the harsh realities of life, his writing became darker and more disturbing, perhaps due to his excessive experimentation with opium and alcohol. His horror stories remain some of the scariest stories ever written, and, because of this, some have speculated on what caused these themes to come so naturally to him. Many historians and literature fanatics have suspected his unstable love life as the source while others have attributed it to his substance abuse. The cause of his unique writing is most likely a combination of both of these theories; but the primary factor is the death of so many of his loved ones and the abuse which some of them inflicted upon him. This, understandably, darkened his outlook significantly. Just befo
