I believed Edgar Allen Poe became more screwed up and his writing was affected when his cousin died of tuberculosis and that disease not only took a family member from him but it took the woman that he wanted to make his wife. Poe was infatuated with his female cousin and she was a child still herself. When she passed away from tuberculosis, Poe was estranged. He made a poem to let whoever read it know that his love of his life will always be near him. Also, Edgar Allen Poe states that he lay beside her grave in the poem, this further let me know that something is really wrong with him mentally. The childhood Poe could not have made his life better. He lost his mother to the same disease as the woman he loved dearly died as well, all of this had to have a mental displacement within him. The events that happened to Poe in his childhood would have made me lash out or act out as a kid. He lost all the women that had ever cared for him in his life to the disease tuberculosis. Poe had to have felt alone in the world or as if he was cursed.