The Link Between Edgar Allen Poe’s Life and The Raven

Edgar Allen Poe's life was a horror story having to deal with so much. Poe’s life was portrayed in The Raven because it helped explain different details and events that occurred in his life. The other stories that he wrote also had different pieces of his life. The Draw My Life video of Edgar Allen Poe and The Raven both have sadness, struggles, and frightening events.

To start, The Ravens is talking about a man who is alone and a raven who curses him and Poe’s life as a young kid both had stories that had sad moments and during those sad moments lead to many struggles. “Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance, it wore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain, Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.” The evidence of the raven quotes how the raven was acting around the man on his chamber door, the raven was making the old man depressed and sad and felt like he didn’t belong. Also, during Poe’s life at a young age, he lost a lot of things that couldn’t be replaced, and the event would make him sad and angry. Poe’s background relates to the raven because he didn’t have a very good time growing up, and he went through different scenarios.

Next, Edgar Allen Poe’s life is almost a horror story, and he had many struggles as he grows up. Raven’s story was also a horror story and deal with different parts of Poe’s life. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”. The quotes matching Poe’s life by him always dealing with different things and could never focus. It says “Weak and Weary” that’s picturing Edgar Allen Poe’s life. The video (Draw my Life) helps relate to The raven because it connects key detail about his struggles and horror stories. To finish, Edgar Allen Poe’s life went through many different struggles and went through scaring things that shouldn’t have happened.

Poe's life was frightening, same as The Raven that they both had many different issues. Though Edgar Allen Poe's life he had lost his mother, his father, his wife, and his step-mother. The man in The Raven scared of the raven and to die. The author tells 'And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before. 'So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating.' The evidence from the text helps represent frightening because it tells what is going through the man’s head in The Raven. Also, the man it getting stressed out and worry and in Poe’s real-life he had to deal with so many frightening things as he grows up. How it says “filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before” that kind of like something so great and powerful, but at the same time scares you so much. Lastly, Poe’s and Raven’s life are very similar because they had common events and both had to go through frightening actions.

Edgar Allen Poe’s life and The Raven are so much alike and have the same type of detail that went through both of their stories. The Raven has a relationship with Edgar Allen Poe’s life because they both were sad, had many different struggles and had frightening times. Edgar Alen Poe’s life was very interesting and confusing to some parts of it. 'The Raven's' story started the horror style of horror movies and books. Edgar Allen Poe's who created horror and his own life was a horror.