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Edgar Allen Poe was a man that is famous and infamous for many different reasons one being the gruesome details in his poems.

What many people forget about is his gentle side. He cared about the family he had up until and after they died. His wife Virginia died of Tuberculosis in 1847 that left him devastated and unhappy. He wrote gentle poems such as “To Helen” of his love for women in his life. Love had been one of the things that had eluded him his entire life along with it never lasting long for different reasons each time. “To Helen” had originally been published in November of 1848 in the Union Magazine.

His full legacy he left behind after he died as any legacy often does after death which lead to him being  more famous than infamous. Annabel Lee, The Tell Tale Heart, The Raven as well as short stories such as Descent into the Maelstrom and The Pit and the Pendulum are a few of the things that most remember of him. Along with that is the rocky life he had in which his poems reflected. He had been somewhat delusional throughout his life from the recurring death that he encountered in addition to overwhelming sadness from life overall. He was a very talented poet that left behind quite a legacy.

Edgar Allan Poe was a man that paved the way for other poets and writers to write what they feel instead of what others wanted him to write. Learning from that is one thing that any poet can do.