egdar allen poe's relationships

[nicolenicole]

I need to write a 15 page paper on his depressed life..and idont know where to start.

[valvaljean]

start when he was born, then move on to his relationship with his adopted family and his schooling. Then you could look into family life and his career, and his relationships with other authors of the day. There is some interesting stuff there - for example, his plagiarim accusations against Longfellow, his meeting with Charles Dickens. There's plenty of info online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

[MorbidElegance]

^ Before I moved into discussing his adopted family, I would first discuss the relationship he had with his real mother and father. The relationship he had with his mother by birth and how she died greatly impacted his writing.

[poe13]

I believe at first his father was abusive and he always turned to his mother for comfort then his mother had gotten tuberculosis and died his father left, and Poe was forced to a foster home where he was adopted by another abusive family where when he was old enough to move out of their house he did then when he was in his 20's he then moved in with his aunt that is where he fell in love with his 13 year old cousin. after a couple of years his cousin died of tuberculosis after that he lived all by him self. I am not totally sure about it but I hope it gives you an idea.

[AutumnRaven]

I'm currently writing a research paper for him as well. Personally, I think you should start off by first giving a brief paragraph about his depressing life and a thesis statement of what makes him a great author to hook your professor or whomever is reading it straight away. Then start at his early childhoood, giving simple information on his parents, including their deaths and Poe's love for his mother and how it influenced his writing for the remainder of his writing. Talk about his siblings a little and his adopted parents and how abusive John Allan was. Talk about tuberculosis because it also impacted his writing . Then segue into education, talents, his debts and alcoholism, his poverty, his WRITING (of course ;) ), jobs, his lovers, Virginia's marriage to him and her early death, his depression, drug use, and death.


GOOD LUCK! ;)


P.S. Make sure you spell "Allan", not "Allen".