Behind the poems of Edgar Allen Poe

  • birth of the poet.

    birth of the poet.
    Edgar Allen poe was born
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    Edgar Allen Poe

  • fatherless child

    Poes dad, David poe jr, abonded poe and his family.
  • motherless child

    motherless child
    Poes mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, died and he was sent to an orphanage. And was adopted by foster parents, John and Frances Allan,
  • finalllly a happy home

    Poe moved in with his auntnMaria Clemm, and her teenage daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm, where he finally had the happy home he missed out on.
  • first love lost

    Poes first true love died when he was only15. He was torn apart.
  • sent off to boarding school

    Poe witnessed his own foster mother he dearly loved get cheated on by his foster dad and he didnt like it. He tried to put a stop to it and was senet off to boarding school so his Foster dad could keep having affairs while his adopted mother was sick.
  • lost of mother again.

    lost of mother again.
    Foster mom Frances Allen, whom Poe was very close to, dies from tuberculosis,
  • now a fatherless child

    now a fatherless child
    Adobted dad John Allen was summoned to death bed and died,leaving Poe nothing to his name,
  • married

    married
    Edgar A. Poe married his first-cousin Virginia Clemm on May 16, 1836. He was 27; she wasnt even 14 yet.
  • death of wife

    death of wife
    1842 virginia was diagnoised of tuburculious then five years later she died january 30 1847.
  • poes death

    Edgar Allen poe was found int he street wearing someone elses clothes unconcious oct. 3rd 1849 had disappeared and died 4 days later.