Everything that someone experiences in life will effect how he or she expresses himself or herself. For example, if you had a hard childhood and were orphaned at a young age, you probably would not be telling very cheerful stories. You would feel the need to get all of your anger out and to make sure that everyone knows what you had to go through in your life. Edgar Allan Poe experienced these issues along …showed first 75 words of 1062 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1062 total…tried to fight it as if it was not a natural part of life. The themes he wrote about in his stories—father figure, obsession, and death—are all experiences that Poe faced in his lifetime. He was an extremely pleasantly puzzling man who spent his life doing what he loved to do and who wrote over sixty short stories and over fifty poems. He was, and is, the dark side of all of us.