My Reflection on Poe

     This week I have been learning quite a lot about Edgar Allen Poe, very famous writer, he had a crazy life back in the 1800s. Now he is a one of the most known and famous writer of all times! 

    The differences between living in the 1800s and the 2000s for Poe was... His parents died a year after he was born, they died from diseases that were more effective back in the day because they didn't have many vaccines and it was easier for people to die by diseases (that could be the reason why Poe died). Then he was taken in by a tobacco merchant, now there is no tobacco merchants legally, only illegally. Also, he married his 13 year old cousin, now that is illegal. His stories were also not widely known because there wasn't really a way to exchange with technology, also people thought it was very weird that he made his own genre. It is way easier now in the 2000s because of all the new technology. Now people really admire his work in many ways. Finally, he died a death of mystery, I bet if he died in the modern day
we would of known of how he died...

    Some similarities between living in the 1800s and 2000 is that Poe had to go through his father leaving his family, people still today leave people because of how they act. Also, he lost his mother and wife from TB, and people still get it and may die from it. Poe was an orphan, there are many orphans today sadly. He would also move so much, and many people today move based on similar reason back then, like environment, new life, education, and the people in the community. 

    Poe's life was a very tragic one, his life did effect his writing very much. Poe's life was very sad, his mother died of tuberculoses and also her wife. His dad abandoned his family and abandoned him. He had to move many times and he has faced lots of rejection. His stories are very dark and sad. His life effects his writing very much, it is his feelings that are his writing, his words are his emotions. He is a poet and an author, his writing is poetry and poetry is what people feel or think of inside. His life affected his writing very much.