Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, and artist in the early to mid-19th century. Unlike most of his fellow writers, Poe had very depressing and morbid stories to tell, and until his death, few people knew why this was so. While other writers and poets talked about imagination or how things could be better, he focused on the supernatural and made sure his true emotions would shine through his words. He was not in favor of concealing the truth as he saw it simply to please sensitive souls. During this period of Poe's almost perpetual decline until his death, tuberculosis was claiming the lives of many Americans. It killed around 10,000 people a day, among these thousands of deaths, Poe lost many loved ones to this voracious disease, including his biological mother, his brother and his angel on earth, Virginia Clemm (his wife and cousin) . This idea of ​​women being "angels" started very young, after the death of his mother, when Poe was three, and it left him extremely vulnerable. This is where Poe's infatuation with women and his belief in their angelic characteristics apparently comes from. Throughout his life, Poe wooed and serenaded women, sometimes more than one at a time, which is why in many of Poe's literary works he speaks of women or the heartbreaks of love. On the other hand, Poe wrote about death, illness, and supernatural events, side by side or separately from his romantic works. Some of these supernatural plays were much more personal to Poe, such as "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Although both poems reflect his personal life in one way or another, "The Raven" is a much more accurate portrait of his personal experiences. The death of Virginia Clemm, his cousin and later wife, was one of the most impactful deaths he had to endure. Her death led to a period of heavy drinking and staying up every hour to watch over her grave, sometimes even sleeping on her grave to be closer to her..