Eldarado, Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be a very important part of the American Romantic period. Born in Boston, MA on Jan.19,1908 he was taken in by John and Frances Allan after the death of his parents. He was baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812. He attended school in Irvine, Scotland and then returned to his family back in London. Edgar Allan Poe lived in an era where many people died of Tuberculosis. Poe dropped out of school because John Allan could no longer fund is school. Poe then writes his first book entitled "Tamerlane and other Poems." Poe could no longer support himself so he joins the United States Army. Poe's hard life inspired him ti be the writer that he became, alot of his poems reflected things he saw or how he felt. In Eldarado written by Poe, he tells us that life is a journey where people search for wealth, fame, joy, God and many other aspects of life. The knight seems to represent everyone who travels the journey of life. Eldarado is the paradise and peace that everybody is in search for, the deep content and feeling of satisfaction people yearn to feel as they live day by day. The works of Poe in my opinion makes him distinctly American, he is a man with this ambition in many of his poems, a longing for something better, as many people, not only Americans wish to gain.