For poets, it is essential that they write about what they know and what they feel, for the substance of what they are revealing will enhance their work and ultimately attract audiences. Edgar Allan Poe is a poet whose personal efforts can be extracted from his poems. His works such as The Raven, Annabel-Lee and Ulalume are just some of his most famous poems that reflect different aspects of Poe's life. Poe's recurring themes of death in conjunction with love, the subconscious self, and ambiguity have attracted audiences to be entranced by his work (Spark Notes, 2014). Adjacent to these intriguing themes is the way Poe's personal life was inexplicitly perceived in his poems, particularly The Raven. Poe's life is reflected throughPoe uses the device of the trochaic octameter, meaning that the trochaeus begins with a stressed syllable followed by a weak (unstressed) syllable (Study Institution, 2013). The general purpose of using trochaic octameter is to exaggerate stressed words, creating hyperbole. Using the first two lines of the first stanza as an example, "Once upon a sad night, while I pondered, weak and weary, upon many quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore..." it is evident that each pair of words is a trochee, a set of stressed and unstressed syllables (Dictionary.com, 2015). When hyperbole is evident, it also allows you to enhance alliteration. In the fourteenth stanza, the first two lines show these two devices working together: "Then it seemed to me that the air grew thicker, the perfume came from an invisible censer, swung by Seraphim whose footsteps tinkled on the tufted carpet. For Poe, the hyperbole of his life was that his father abandoned him and that his mother died when he was just two years old. Since Poe lived with the wealthy John and Frances Allan, he knew them as his parents, although their relationship was not biological . He had a close relationship with Frances but not with John (The Biography, 2015). In Poe's late teens, the Allans provided him with only a third of the money he needed to continue his university studies, leaving him in debt and forcing him to abandon school. school in less than a year (Poe Stories, 2005). It is evident in the second stanza that the narrator feels quite alone, that he has no one there for him anymore, this is perpendicular to Poe as he has been practically abandoned by his family. who raised him practically his entire life. The stressed feelings of abandonment accentuated by trochaic octameter and hyperbole create a definite association between Poe's individual feelings of abandonment from his youth, which may have been reminiscent of the impending loss of his wife