The Trouble with Poe

What is wrong with Edgar Allan Poe? Was he a crazy mad person? Was he disturbed and twisted? Or was he completely normal? These are some of the questions we may never have answers to but we can try and answer them. Make a theory about what was going on in Poe's mind when he wrote these disturbing stories and poems. What was he thinking?

Personally, I don't think Edgar Allan Poe was a twisted person but he was a little disturbed. I think he wrote those kink of stories because he had so many losses in his life. First, his mother, whom he loved dearly. Then, his second mother, who took him in after he was orphaned. And then, his wife Virginia, he love her and tried to take good care of her but he could not save her. He wrote short stories and poems like Annabel Lee and The Masque of the Red Death sort of on these losses. The poem Annabel Lee about Virginia and how the angels were jealous of their love and took her away from him. The Masque of the Red Death, a combination of the Bubonic Plague and Tuberculosis. He was not crazy but had a sad and depressing life.

Take the author Suzanne Collins for example, she wrote a trilogy about romance and kids fighting to their death. Loved ones being taken away just because one president didn't like the first rebellion. Does that make her crazy? Is she out of her minds writing about such things? No, she is not! She is not disturbed either but its because of her creative thinking that she wrote such books. Books, that once you start there`s no letting go till the end.

Great writers don't ask people about what they should write about but instead they write there heart out. They write what they want to write. That's what writing is all about, writing with your heart not your mind.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin