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Sam Doueiri Edgar Allan Poe and substance sophisticate The Bottled chap Edgar Allan Poe was unity of Americas most celebrated poet and story teller. His support started early with misfortune. Both of his parents were already dead, when Edgar was 3 years old. His father died of tebibyte and his mother died of tuberculosis and pneumonia. He was pick out and attended educate until he was 17 years old. He started the abuse of alcohol with 17 and he started gambling.As his adopting father figured out, he stopped all pecuniary supports of his adopted son. Edgar had to leave the University and he enlisted in the U. S. army, and later obtained a military school. Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from the military school after one year attending. During his time in this school he published his first verse book. Over the years Poe open up a reputation as a writer. Drinking remained a lifelong problem. Edgar adopted a lifestyle which included a constant abuse of alcohol.Although writing b rought him fame, he had to struggle through his whole life with financial issues. Because of the leaking copyright protection to his time, he never was financially rewarded for his excellent masterpieces of poetry and literature. Therefore he struggled through his whole life with money issues. passim most of his writings Edgar Allan Poe mentions the abuse of alcohol I became insane, with long intervals of dread sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank God only knows how often or how much.As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. Courtney JF dependence and Edgar Ellen Poe Med Times 1972 100162-163. He started in a young geezerhood with the excessive abuse of alcohol, as a classmate recalled He would ever seize the tempting glass, generally unmixed with sugar or water- in fact, perfectly straight- and without the least apparent pleasure, swallow the contents, never pausing until the last flat ten had passed his lips. Bonaparte M The vivification and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Imago Pub, London 194931-32 Alcohol appears much in Poes stories, usually connected to some following barbarian act or event One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him when, in his stir at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The offense of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My pilot program soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the brusk beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket. When indicate returned with the morning- when I had slept off the fumes of the nights debauchery-I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of wh ich I had been guilty hardly it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I once again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed. Poes The stark Cat www. heliterature network. com pages 2-5. In conclusion, Alcohol abuse became a part of Edgar Allan Poes life, it affected his writings his perception and his creativity. He went into or so a down in the mouth Side in his life and gave little windows of his mind through his literature. It seems almost as if the Alcohol took overhand and had finally a body of mind, from which on the Alcohol himself and parts of Poes personality were writing in among two different worlds, the Dark billet and the pure and innocent side of life.His way of writing very Dark finds an interesting base of fashioning the ref being curious what will happen next. It is miserable itself what makes the reader keep reading. Courtney JF Addiction and Edgar Ellen Poe Med Times 1972 100162-163. B onaparte M The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Imago Pub, London 194931-32 Poes The Black Cat www. theliterature network. com pages 2-5.