Edgar Allan Poe His Life & Legacy (pgs 241-304 end)

Summary
This will be the last post for Edgar Allan Poe's life story, because we come to the part where his life ends. Even though his emotional problems, Poe continued to still write creative. He publised his love poem to Annie in the Boston weekily, The Flag of Our Union. The project Poe really wanted to accomplish was to own his own magazine but it failed because he could not get subcribers. In May Poe accomplished his last poem called, "Annabel Lee" Poe drank when he had to leave New York to go to a lecture in Richmond. He was arrested for drunken behavior, while in prison Poe claimed to that he saw, "weird and fantastic hallucinations." After getting out of prison, Poe went on a train back to New York to care for Maria Clemm, but then he got off because he said he heard a men three seats back from his that he was going to kill him so Poe got off quick. Poe had been feeling very ill he low on money and was living in a two story hotel. Poe had met Elmira again, she was his fifth and final attempt to remarry she accepted his proposal. When they called the doctor and sent Poe to the hospital, the doctor realized that Poe's life was in danger and believed he would die. Sadly Edgar Allan Poe died on Sunday, October 7 at 5 A.M. at the age of 40. They find Poe's death mysterious because he could of died of various causes, Poe was buried in the Presbyteria Cemetery in Baltimore on October 8 at 4 in the afternoon. Maria Clemm after Poe's death had published his work because she desperately needed money for survival. People were now taking pieces of Poe's work and publishing it to sell, but friends and supporters of Poe in America put together all Poe's work and published it they even wrote a book about his life. Poe was very popular in France and they took it seriously when he had died by decicating things to him, Poe influence art in Europe and America. Baudelaire used Poe's tragic life and spent years translating Poe's work, his infulence on American literature was deep, his originality and imagination has impact advanced thinkers today.

Quotation
After Poe's death, doctors found his cause of death as mysterious, "exposure...alcoholic poisoning...heart disease...Poe must probably suffered from hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar-possibly brought on by chronic liver disease, which can also induce altered states of consciousness" (Meyers 256).

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I was in shock when I came to the part saying that Edgar Allan Poe died, because I still had two more chapters left so I thought that he would die then not so soon, but then I realized that the two chapters were for his influence on Americans and Europeans. When Poe was in the hospital he was very sick, and it was easy to tell because he was seeing things and I got the impression that he was going to die because he saw Viriginia the love of his life. The doctors was still skeptic about how Poe died and I believed that Poe died of alcoholic reasons because towards the end he was drinking a lot every page I turned he was drinking. I think his liver was just very damaged, when Poe would drink I would be very disappointed because I know he went through a lot in his life but he died so young, and everyone witness his drinking they just stare and would not do a thing, he drank his life away. Poe was an amazing writer and I was suprised how some of these companies would reject his work or criticize it, personally I think they were jealous because Poe mostly drank for not getting his work published. This led to Poe not earning money to support his family which made him more depress. From reading the book on his life I believed Poe die of acoholic poisoning, at a young age.