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'Sam Doueiri Edgar Allan Poe and substance squall The Bottled Curse Edgar Allan Poe was one of America’s most celebrated poet and story teller. His flavour started early with misfortune. Both of his parents were already dead, when Edgar was 3 historic period old. His father died of tuberculosis and his gravel died of tuberculosis and pneumonia. He was select and be drill until he was 17 long time old. He started the roast of alcoholic bever sequence with 17 and he started gambling.As his adopting father figured out, he stopped all financial supports of his adopted son. Edgar had to leave the University and he enlisted in the U. S. military, and posterior obtained a military school. Edgar Allan Poe was expelled from the military school after one year attending. During his clip in this school he create his first poetry book. Over the years Poe established a reputation as a writer. Drinking remained a lifelong problem. Edgar adopted a lifestyle which include a constant abuse of alcohol.Although authorship brought him fame, he had to struggle with his full life with financial issues. Because of the leaking copyright surety to his time, he never was financially rewarded for his sharp masterpieces of poetry and literature. Therefore he struggled through with(predicate) his whole life with money issues. throughout most of his authorships Edgar Allan Poe mentions the abuse of alcohol â€Å"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of infrangible unconsciousness I drank … God still knows how often or how much.As a proposition of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the boozing rather than the drink to the insanity. ” Courtney JF: â€Å"Addiction and Edgar Ellen Poe” Med Times 1972; one hundred:162-163. He started in a young age with the excessive abuse of alcohol, as a classmate recalled: â€Å"He would always take for granted the tempting glass, generally unmixed with gelt or wa ter- in f incite, perfectly straight- and without the to the lowest degree apparent pleasure, swallow the contents, never pausing until the pass away drop had passed his lips. Bonaparte M: â€Å"The purport and flora of Edgar Allan Poe”, Imago Pub, London 1949:31-32 Alcohol appears a great deal in Poe’s stories, usually attached to some following violent act or event: ” One wickedness, return home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The ferocity of a demon instantly have me. I knew myself no longer. My original individual seemed, at once, to take its flight from my luggage compartment; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, excite every fiber of my frame.I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, undecided it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut on e of its eyes from the socket…. When understanding returned with the morning- when I had slept off the fumes of the night’s debauchery-I experienced a perspective half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine-colored all memory of the deed. ” Poe’s â€Å"The swart cat-o-nine-tails” www. heliterature ne twainrk. com pages 2-5. In conclusion, Alcohol abuse became a part of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, it touched his writings his perception and his creativity. He went into or so a â€Å"Dark Side” in his life and gave little windows of his mind through his literature. It seems almost as if the Alcohol took overhanded and had finally a body of mind, from which on the Alcohol himself and parts of Poe’s reputation were writing in between two different worlds, the â₠¬Å"Dark side” and the â€Å" native and innocent side” of life.His way of writing very â€Å" Dark” finds an interesting make of making the referee being comic what will happen next. It is” miserable” itself what makes the reader keep reading. Courtney JF: â€Å"Addiction and Edgar Ellen Poe” Med Times 1972; 100:162-163. Bonaparte M: â€Å"The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, Imago Pub, London 1949:31-32 Poe’s â€Å"The Black Cat” www. theliterature network. com pages 2-5.\r\n'