What poems did Edgar Allan Poe write about his wife Virginia?

Answer 1

No, Poe published The Raven in 1845 and his only wife died in 1847 though she was suffering from the incurable and fatal consumption (tuberculosis) since long before he began writing the poem.

Answer 2

Edgar Allan Poe wrote several poems about his wife Virginia, including "Annabel Lee," "To My Mother," and "For Annie." These poems often reflect his deep love for her and his grief over her illness and eventual death. Virginia's presence in Poe's poetry serves as a recurring motif of love, loss, and mourning.

Answer 3

Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe were married for more than eleven years before she died. You are probably conflating that story with the one about Poe and his first love, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, to whom he was engaged twice, but Poe died before they married.

Answer 4

Edgar Allan Poe went totally insane because his wife/cousin died. He went so insane that he started to drink alcohol again, and, about 32 months after his wife died, he was found on the streets of Baltimore in a stupor. He was taken to the hospital where he died four days later. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

Answer 5

No. Poe borrowed the meter and rhyme scheme for 'The Raven' from the poem 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and he dedicated his collection The Raven and Other Poems (1845) to her.

Answer 6

Most people would say "Annabel Lee." After all the poem is about a disconsolate husband having just lost his wife. Nevertheless not everyone agrees that Annabel Lee is Virginia Clemm.

Frances Sargent Osgood, to whom Poe had written a poem entitled "To F______s S. O____d." said that Virginia was Annabel Lee. Some Poe scholars have the opinion that Annabrl Lee is strictly a fictional character, because the death of a beautiful woman had been a favorite Poe topic.

Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, Poe's childhood sweethteart and fiancee at the time the poem was written, claimed it was about her. (Even though she hadn't yet died.)

Sarah Anna Lewis also claimed that she was Annabel Lee. (Even though she hadn't died yet either.) In the year Virginia died, Poe wrote the poem "An Enigma" to her in which he hid her name within the body of the poem.

Answer 7

Yes. Frances Allan died on February 28, 1829, and 'The Raven' was published on January 29, 1845.

Answer 8

Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems about his wife. There was "The Raven" for when she was ill for five years; and "Annabel Lee" which was after she died.

Answer 9

Annabel Lee