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Why were edgar allan poe's poems so dark? "Edgar Allan Poe." //About.com//. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. .
 * 1) mother died before his eyes
 * 2) mother died when he was 3
 * 3) spent 2 days with the corpse of his mother
 * 4) father died when he was 3
 * 5) had gambling issues
 * 6) was alienated by his foster parents
 * 7) girl he loved got engaged to somone else
 * 8) got nothing when his father died
 * 9) Married his cousin
 * 10) was deperssed
 * 11) was alcoholic
 * 12) wife died
 * 13) she died of tubecleosis
 * 14) was remarried
 * 15) was divorced cause he drank
 * 16) met childhood love, she had been widowed
 * 17) going to get married
 * 18) Died before the wedding
 * 19) died from congestion of brain
 * 20) thought to have been captured and beaten

"Edgar Allan Poe." //Associatedcontent.com//. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. .

Things He Wrote "Edgar Allen Poe." //Readprint.com//. Web. 29 Apr. 2010.
 * 1) clown represets irony
 * 2) wine represets class
 * 3) catacombs: dead body was wife?
 * 4) story simulates irony
 * 5) the black cat: horror in all?
 * 6) raven: mignight in december: change
 * 7) raven symbolises wisdom
 * 8) month his mother died
 * 9) raven is ill omen
 * 10) narrator is tourtured by the truth
 * 11) originally a parrot
 * 12) Prince Prospero indicates a person of great wealth and high prestige
 * 13) had a cat
 * 14) named catterina
 * 15) had a bird
 * 16) and a raven
 * 17) had a dog
 * 18) name was pluto
 * 19) lived in boston
 * 20) died in baltimore
 * 1) Al Aaraaf
 * 2) Annabel Lee
 * 3) The Bells
 * 4) The city in the sea
 * 5) The concurer Worm
 * 6) A dream within a dream
 * 7) Eldorado
 * 8) Eulalie
 * 9) The haunted palace
 * 10) To helen
 * 11) Lenore
 * 12) Tamerlane
 * 13) The Raven
 * 14) Ulalume
 * 15) The black cat
 * 16) the case of Amontillado
 * 17) Decent in to the maelstrom
 * 18) The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
 * 19) The Fall of the House of Usher
 * 20) The gold Bug
 * 21) Ligiea
 * 22) The Masque of the Red Death
 * 23) The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 * 24) The Oval Portrait
 * 25) The pit and the pendulum
 * 26) The Premature Burial
 * 27) The Purloined Letter
 * 28) The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
 * 29) The Tell-Tale Heart

Childhood "Bio of Edgar Allan Poe." //Noteablebiographies.com//. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. .
 * 1) Was orphaned At 3
 * 2) Separated from his sister
 * 3) uncle cut poe out of his will
 * 4) Was in the army
 * 5) Published in magazines
 * 6) Got a job for thesouthern literary messenger
 * 7) made his only long story in 1838
 * 8) 3 wives died
 * 9) he married his cousin who died from tubercleosis
 * 10) was emotionally scarred from childhood
 * 11) had drinking and gambling issues