How Is Edgar Allan Poe's Life Reflected In The Raven

Poe had a very depressing life. His parents left him, he was a drunk, and he struggled to keep a job. But, how does this relate to one of his most renowned poems, “The Raven”. Well, at the time when he wrote the poem he was married, so we can conclude that maybe he was scared to lose his wife. Also, he could have been paranoid/ superstations, due to the eerie presents of the raven, or he could have just been drunk while writing the poem. At the time of the poem Poe’s wife was ill and he could have just been thinking of the worst, which only happened three years later. He was probably thinking of how depressed his life would have been if she died. In stanza two he states “… sorrow the lost Lenore- for the rare and radiant maiden whom the