Part one of term paper
If ever a poet's life influenced his writing ,Edgar Allan Poe did. Poe's personal emotions were evident in all of his writings but no more so than in the poem, "A Dream Within a Dream." In this poem Poe's feelings of loss and hopelessness are clearly reflected, "Yet if hope has flown away, in a night or in a day." Poe was born in 1809 to Dav ...

Part two of term paper
... drink heavily. This habit cost him many jobs as well as his relationship with his foster father. He married his cousin Virginia. She was his sanity and his life. When she died of tuberculosis, he lost everything. He felt as though he had no control in his life. . . . I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- . . . they creep through my fingers . . . O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? In the first stanza of his poem, Poe is speaking to a person who has seen him through s ...