"A Dream Within A Dream" If ever a poet's life influenced his writing ,Edgar Allan Poe did. Poe's personal emotions were evident in all of his writings but no more so than in the poem, "A Dream Within a Dream." In this poem Poe's feelings of loss and hopelessness are clearly reflected, "Yet if hope has flown away, in a night or in a day." Poe was born in 1809 to David and Elizabeth Poe who were actors. Hid father died or disappeared and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was two. He and his baby sister Rosalie were left orphaned. Mrs. Francis Allan took him in but not his sister. Her husband never would adopt him. He was sent to many different schools and while in college, began to drink heavily. This habit cost him many jobs as well as his relationship with his foster father. He married his cousin Virginia. She was his sanity and his life. When sh....

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