Introduced by tragedies early in his life, Edgar Allan Poe became one of the most successful writers, poets, and storytellers to ever live. Edgar Allan Poe had the intelligence to do whatever he wanted, however, the pain of losing his loved ones always seemed to push him towards pen and paper. His emotions never failed to shine through his writing, which helped the plot touch readers. Poe became very close to several women, but each died shortly after he began to love them. This only pushed him to write more emotionally. Poe had a natural talent for putting his real life experiences into a fictional story and making it seem like it was really happening. A mutual understanding towards many of Poe's works is that the loss of a lover leads to madness, but the truth is that in Poe's works the loss of a young lover leads to depression. This is a theme present in more than one of Poe's works, but it is prevalent in the depressing poem Annabel Lee. The speaker is conflicted with the loss of his entire world and his childhood lover. Although all is well for both him and the girl, an insurmountable depression takes over when the winds blow to drag her to the grave. This is a theme that often recurs in his works and has been noted as one of his main inspirations. As part of the research, Peter Coviello concludes that "Within [Poe's] world, only very young girls, who are not yet burdened by the repulsions of adult femininity, seem capable of providing Poe with a place for a stable heterosexual male desire". Instead of using a full-fledged adult as a lover, he inserted a child into his poem so that the lover does not exploit the potential to turn into a monstrous… middle of paper… r in his life. in his characters, even after his death. Works Cited Coviello, Pietro. "Poe in Love: Pedophilia, Morbidity, and the Logic of Slavery." ELH 70.3 (2003): 875-901. ProQuest. Network. November 4, 2013.Poe, Edgar Allan. Annabel Lee. 8th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 691. Print.Poe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of House Usher. 8th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 702-714. Print.Poe, Edgar Allan. Ligeia. 8th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. 692-701. Print.Zimmerman, Brett. "Phrenological Allegory in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 43.1 (2010): 57-72. ProQuest. Network. November 6, 2013.Zlotnick-Woldenberg, Carrie. Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia": An Object Relational Interpretation. American Journal of Psychotherapy 53.3 (1999): 403-12. ProQuest. Network. November 11. 2013.