"" was one of 's last poems, and like several others, its theme is the death
of a lovely woman. Many critics believe that the inspiration for the poem was his marriage to
his first cousin, Virginia. They obtained their marriage license when Poe was 26 and Virginia
was 13. The elements of psychological torment of the poem involve the premature death of the
poet's lover, and Poe's wife Virginia died of tuberculosis at a very young age in 1847, two
years before Poe himself died at the age of 40.
The poem claims that the
angels in heaven envy the love of the young man and...
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