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writing this way, he is trying to keep this wife alive because he misses
her. Poe never gets over the lost of his wife.
Next, every man in his life left him or did not want him. With all
of the lost in Poes life created, boundaries which divide life from
Death are at best shadowy and vague who shall say where one ends,
and where the other begin? (The Premature Burial). Poe had to have
boundaries in his life because of money trouble and people walking out
on him, and not helping him when he lost his love ones. Poe also had
financial trouble. He had to drop out of school because he could not
afford it. His foster father would not adopt him or help him pay for
college. He could have helped him but he never wanted to. A
boundary with losing people was that everyone that he ever loved left
him. Since he lost so many people, Poe had very dark and lonely times,
From a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange
impending doom(Works). Poes words make us understand how hurt
he was after everything that happened to him.
Poe also had trouble with having a believable narrator in his
writing. His writings gave us insight into his mind I became insane,
with long intervaes of horrible sanity (Heureka). Poe started to lose his
sanity as life went on and he became lonelier and missed so many
people. This affected Poe mentally because he has no one to talk to or
that cared about him. Poe felt like he was alone and the world was
scary and dark, Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there,