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The life of Poe is the most melodramatic of any of the major American writers of his generation. In Poe's poems, like his tales, his characters are tortured by nameless fears and longings. In both form and content Poe's early poetry is typically Romantic althou ....

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.... normally would not become unstable. Yet with this condition of the character and with the same condition associated with the author, this reflects the alcoholic temperament. Another detail of retrospect can be noted in Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher". The idea of incest is insinuated here. The character Roderick Usher has taken his sister for his wife. Poe has not married his sister but his cousin however the subject of incest still remains. Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was only 13. Poe's wife in 1843 had begun showing symptoms of tuberculosis a year after she burst a blood vessel in her throat. Madeline Usher - the sister to ....