‘Fall’ as a metaphor for Poe’s life?
by eumenades
Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-08-25 22:41:00
Parent message is 504940
But, surely, that whole story was a metaphor for Poe’s life. He was bugged by a collapse within his own being, probably precipitated by losing his mother (death) at such an early age.
Or am I being presumptuous? (I’m big on developmental psychoanalysis.)
John