Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings Through out Edgar Allen Poe’s life, many factors have contributed and influenced his writing style. He lived a difficult life, because he was raised in a dysfunctional household. He was raised by a step father who did not love him, or he dictated his values so much that it warped Poe’s impressionable mind. But the product of Edgar Allen Poe’s mind is printed in his short stories and poems. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories have similar motifs and composition that would suggest suppressed emotions from life experiences and are being let out through his writings. Three m