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Essay Archive - Symbols in Poe's Writing
Symbols in Poe's Writing
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He was
born to a southern family that were in a Traveling company of actors. His
father David poe was from a Baltimore family. He was an actor by
profession and a Heavy drinker. Soon after Edgar Allan Poe was born, David
left his family. Poe's mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was a widow at the
age of eighteen. Two years after Edgar's birth Elizabeth died of
tuberculosis. Poe remembered, when he was little, his mother being carried
off by men dressed in black while she was vomiting blood. When his mother
died, Poe was adopted b....
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