Art is in everything. Artists can be expert with the brush, phenomenal with the piano, or masters of the pen. Authors and poets have the ability to manipulate words like no other artist can. Poets in particular can use their words to understand different types of art by painting a picture with lyrical rhythm and imagery. Poets may be ordinary, but for their poetry to be timeless it must be universally identifiable. Edgar Allen Poe is considered one of the most famous poets in American history thanks to his famous debauchery, Gothic tales of terror, and poems taught in schools and still analyzed today. Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in the early nineteenth century. It is known that Poe lived a difficult life and that tragedy began at an early age. At three years old he witnesses the death of his mother (Bloom). Then, he was taken into custody by the Allen family who remained his benefactors until he attended the University of Virginia. However, Poe did not stay at the university after 1826 because his adoptive father did not want to pay off a debt that Poe owed, and also did not want to pay tuition (bloom). From college, Poe returned to Massachusetts where he joined the army. It was in the army in 1827 that Poe published his first work, entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems anonymously (Merriman). Not long after its first publication, tragedy struck again. His adoptive mother died in 1829, the same year his second book was published. It wasn't until two years later that Poe met his future wife while living with his aunt and brother. Henry, his brother, died of tuberculosis just as their mother did soon after Poe moved in (Merriman). In the following years Poe published several works and became half-editor of the newspaper.... 117-120. EBSCOhost. Network. 11 April 2012. Forsythe, Robert S. "Poe's 'Nevermore': A Note." American Literature 7.4 (1936): 439-452. JSTOR. Network. 15 April 2012. .Caputi, Antonio. "The Refrain in Poe's Poetry." American Literature 25.2 (1953): 169-178. JSTOR. Web.Moldenhauer, Joseph J. "Murder as Figurative Art: Basic Connections Between Aesthetics, Psychology, and Poe's Moral Vision." Modern Language Association 83.2 May 1968. 284. JSTOR. Network. April 16, 2012.Broderick, Giovanni. "Poe's Revisions of "Lenore"." American Literature 35.4 January 1964. 506. JSTOR. Network. April 11 2012..