Mind of Edgar Allan Poe Thesis

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The narrator seems to lose everything when he loses Ligeia and he demonstrates no desire to regain what he was knew of life. He is "crushed to the very dust with sorrow" (Poe Ligeia 131) and he can "no longer endure the lonely desolation of my dwelling" (131). These examples illustrate pain that attempts to come to terms with death but cannot. Poe found that through his characters, he could at least express the sorrow he experienced.

It can be no wonder that death emerges in so many of Poe's stories.

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Death and dying are synonymous with Poe's name and it stands for good reason. Poe was not simply trying to write horror stories simply for the sake of writing them; he was attempting to cope with death the only the way that he could. His drinking was a manifestation of the inability to cope completely with his loss and a feeble attempt to erase painful memories. Poe reminds us that life is full of pain and sometimes the reality of it all is simply too much to bear.

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