Edgar Allan Poe – Tormented Genius? | Documentary

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  @peggyh4805 · 2 years ago

  I memorized The Raven in high school and still can recite much of it. It is melodic.

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  @jillscheintal4600 · 1 year ago

  Most biographers miss that Poe's emotional rock was his Aunt Maria Clemm who treated him like a son, motivating and supporting him until she died. He considered her and his cousin as his "little family," for whom he felt fully responsible. He and "Aunt Muddy" were so close that part of the reason he married her daughter was to stop gossip that Poe was unnaturally involved with her, his (older) aunt. He wasn't, but they did seem to "get" each other, and she mothered him devotedly, and he wrote her constantly whenever they were apart. Many bios of Poe don't even mention this central relationship of his life, but focus instead on the relationship with Virginia, which was, due to her youth, comparatively shallow, and possibly more about social performance than passion.

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  @andresjimenez5523 · 1 year ago

  Poe represented those who, like me, feel this world is a vague rehearsal for something better.

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  @EstOptimusNobis · 1 year ago

  As an alcoholic myself, gratefully at an ebb tide, I understand his torments. He was a creative genius, weighted with sorrow. We all have a gift in life, and we all have our struggles.

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  @daveredinger1947 · 3 years ago

  My beautiful sister absolutely loved Edgar Allen Poe. She turned me on to him. I owe everything to her.. her love  for literature. I believe she read everything he wrote. She wrote beautiful poetry also. Sadly she succumbed to lupus and died at 45!! Thanks for making this video!!! Take care!!

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  @michaelwilliams409 · 1 year ago

  I will forever be sorry for the way my younger (little) brother died. He had a terrible time with drinking and took him at the age of 44. I am sorry for the way I reacted to him and his drinking, and should have been more open to that horrible disease. Drinking has destroyed my father and also my best friend as a child. Now that I am older I wish I would have acted differently because I always knew they would not be with me long. Trying to get them to stop, I missed the little time that they were here.

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  @localbod · 2 years ago

  I think Poe&apos;s Dream Within A Dream is one of the finest poems ever written.<br>Whetever one feels about him as a character or his works he shall not be forgotten.

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  @gw8147 · 2 years ago

  Poe&apos;s poem &quot; Dreamland &quot; is one of my favourite pieces of literature.

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  @RuthZeeck · 2 years ago

  I bought an old volume of Poe’s stories at a secondhand book shop when I was 17. &nbsp;I fell in love with Poe’s work then and 50 years later, he is still one of my favorite authors.

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  @cleverhandle420 · 2 years ago (edited)

  A lot of his writing, the narrators of his stories, exhibit classic ocd symptoms. It speaks to me as a sufferer. He was my favorite writer long before I was diagnosed. People think ocd is hand washing and checking lights but it is also so much more and so very, very tormenting. I don’t find it hard to believe he suffered from constant intrusive thoughts and tried, compulsively, to rid himself of them. Drug use disorder is a common comorbidity of ocd sufferers as well. For someone that wasn’t diagnosed with the disorder he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what it was like to live with it. Just my two cents. It’s sad that he suffered so much.<br><br>Even tho there’s no evidence, medical records, etc, he’s become a folk hero among ocd sufferers bc of how relatable his writings are. He was brilliant. It’s a shame he fell to his demons.

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  @alayneperrott9693 · 3 years ago

  I found an illustrated volume of Poe&apos;s stories in the house and read them all when I was far too young. The Pit and the Pendulum, in particular, haunted me for years.

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  @eduardosalas2640 · 1 year ago

  There&apos;s a man dressed like Poe who comes to the Dickens On The Strand festival during Christmas holidays in Galveston Texas and recites Poe. &nbsp;I love sitting in the audience!!

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