Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet and artist of the first half of the 19th century. Unlike most of his fellow writers, Poe had very depressing and morbid stories to tell, and until shortly after his death not many people knew why this was the case. While other writers and poets talked about this fiction or how things could have been better, he focused on the supernatural and made sure his true emotions came out through his words. He didn't believe in hiding the truth as he saw it just to appeal to the faint of heart. During this period of Poe's almost perpetual decline until his death, tuberculosis was taking the lives of many Americans. It killed approximately 10,000 people a day, among these thousands of deaths Poe lost many loved ones to this ravenous disease, including his biological mother, his brother, and his angel on earth, Virginia Clemm (his wife and cousin). This idea of ​​women as “angels” began at an early age after his mother's death, when Poe was three, and left him extremely vulnerable. It is believed that this is where Poe's infatuation with women and his belief in their angelic characteristics came from. Throughout his life Poe courted and serenaded women, sometimes more than one at a time, which is why in many of his literary pieces Poe talks about women or the pains of love. On the other hand Poe wrote about death, illness, and supernatural events alongside or separately from his romantic pieces. Some of these supernatural pieces were much more personal to Poe such as “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. While both poems reflect his personal life in some way, “The Raven” is a much more accurate portrayal of his personal experiences. The death of Virginia Clemm, his cousin and later wife, was one of the most influential deaths he had to endure. Her death led to a period in which he drank heavily and stayed up all hours to watch over her grave, sometimes even sleeping on her grave to be closer to her..