Many might know author Edgar Allan Poe for his deep, almost disturbing, gothic work, but what you might not know is that his suffering of many losses of loved ones and heavy dependence on alcohol throughout his life played a large role in the development of Poe’s very unique writing styles and topics. Poe would always go to his passion of poetry to help him cope with his losses. Poe’s work wasn't appreciated for his amazing work. At very young age Poe would experience a lot dysfunction and sorrow from his own family in which he would in his work (Wilson 1). Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to David Poe, Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins both were traveling actors. Poe never really knew his parents. His father left his family early on, and then at the age of the three his mother. Even at the age of six, Poe was scared of death that he would panic whenever he passed a cemetery, believing that a ghost would come after him. His mother’s death by was caused by the deadly disease of that time, tuberculosis, would be common thing in Poe’s as he would lose other loved ones later on in life. After his parents’ death Poe and his brother and sister were split up. Poe was adopted by a wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan (Wilson 1) of Richmond, Virginia. He and Francis seemed to form a very strong bond, but Poe and John never quite got along they will always butt heads. John Allan was never supportive of Poe’s dream of becoming a writer he always wanted to Poe to help running his business but Poe little interest in that, he had a dream of becoming a writer just like his childhood hero Lord Byron. Poe wrote poems at young age even sometimes on the back of Allan’s business papers (Poe). In 1826 Poe would leave Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, where he became a superb student. Even though he was having success in the classroom Poe was also piling up a large debt because he didn’t receive any financial help from John Allan to cover his costs. To pay for his cover Poe would turn to gambling (biography 1). After failing to paying for educa