Biography
This U.S. city, known as the “City of Poe,” was where Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849.
What is Baltimore?
In the Poem what does Sand Slipping away represent
What is time or life slipping away?
Poe died at age 40 in this year.
What is 1849?
Who is William or Rosaline?
Edgar Allan Poe was born in this city in 1809.
What is Boston?
What does Poe compare his life to throughout the poem?
What is a Dream?
Poe was found delirious in this condition shortly before his death.
What is wearing someone else’s clothes?
What was David Poe Jr.’s profession?
What is an Actor?
After being orphaned, Poe was taken in by this Woman.
Who is Francis Allan?
The ”Pitiless Wave” represents this in the poem.
What is unstoppable Time or Death?
Poe’s suicide was caused by his mental illness.
What is Depression?
This Woman was Edgar Allan Poe’s foster mom, who died when he was 20
Who is Francis Allan?
Poe attended this university but left due to financial troubles.
What is the University of Virgina?
What nature setting does Poe describe in the Poem?
What is Beach or Shore?
Some speculate that Poe might have dies from this disease typically found in animals that causes delirious states.
What is Rabies?
This disease claimed the lives of Poe’s mother, foster mother, and wife.
What is Tubercolosis?
The big question Poe asks at the end of the poem.
What is Overdose?
How Many parents did Poe have throughout his life.
What is 3?