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Sam Doueiri Edgar Allan Poe and substance profane The Bottled Curse Edgar Allan Poe was one of Americas to the highest degree celebrated poet and story teller. His life 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 follow and attended school 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 monetary supports of his adopted son. Edgar had to leave the University and he enlisted in the U. S. military, 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 meter book. everyplace the years Poe established a reputation as a writer. Drinking remained a lifelong problem. Edgar adopted a lifestyle which included a constant abuse of alcohol.Alth ough musical composition brought him fame, he had to struggle finished 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. Throughout most of his writings Edgar Allan Poe mentions the abuse of alcohol I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank God only knows how oft 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 Addiction and Edgar Ellen Poe Med Times 1972 carbon162-163. He started in a young age with the excessive abuse of alcohol, as a class fellow recalled He would al authoritys seize the tempting glass, generally unmixed with sugar or water- in fact, utterly straight- and without the least apparent pleasure, swallow the conte nts, never pausing until the last drop had passed his lips. Bonaparte M The sprightliness and kit and boodle of Edgar Allan Poe, Imago Pub, London 194931-32 inebriant appears frequently in Poes stories, usually connected to some following lashing act or event One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I project that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my gift with his teeth. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original 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 poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket. When reason 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 iniquity of which I had been guilty but 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 Black 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 almost a Dark 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 between two different worlds, the Dark side and the pure and innocent side of life.His way of writing very Dark finds an interesting base of making the reader being curious what forget happen next. It is miserable itself what makes the reader keep reading. Courtney JF Addiction and Edgar Ellen Poe Med Ti mes 1972 100162-163. Bonaparte 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.