Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's writings were enormously affected by his chaotic life involving death after death around him. His obsession with "death" results in writing many mysteries or stories involved with murder, disease, suicide, etc. Some of his writings are very astonishing and sometimes even lunatic, but it is not even close to his life experience. There were ten important people in his life that either died or left Poe abruptly. These catastrophes …showed first 75 words of 1488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1488 total…Even though he was a proud man not showing much weakness, he begged God to save his soul. He probably knew that he was insane regularly and in his writings, but he probably let himself express his tragedies to the world as a revenge for his terrible life. That may be one of the reasons why he didn't commit suicide. If one were depressed as much as Poe, they would usually choose death over living.