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Hero-a person or thing who points someone's life in the right direction. Also a hero can only be chosen by you and your mind.

I was looking for a hero and when I was researching people from the nineteenth century, and Edgar Allan Poe, a famous poet who in the nineteenth century who was widely known for his great poeticism had a page that I read and from then on I knew he was my hero. He's my hero because i like to write poems in my spare time, and he was very famous. He didn't do anything like saving lives or saving someone in distress, but he was a poet and songwriter with tons of songs and poems. He was a male poet which people don't usually think that men can get that deep, and by deep, i mean getting you to really think about what he just recited, or how you want to change something in your life. For example, when I hear a song about one guy changing the world, it makes me want to do something to make a difference, it makes me want to do something with my life, so that's why i wanted to pick a poet or songwriter. He's not the first person who comes to mind but when you really think about it, anyone can make a difference. So, in this essay I will prove that Edgar Allan Poe was a hero, because he has pointed me and how I live my life in the right direction.

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Edgar Allen lived from January 19,1809 when he was born in Boston Massachusetts to October 7,1849 where he died in Baltimore. he's helped me well not really helped but he's inspired me to let out my feelings in the form of poetry, not in my actions. For example if I'm mad i will not go and take it out on someone else, I would write a poem about what the person did to me or I would write a song about that person's actions. A lot of people just thought he was crazy, but he was helping people even though he didn't really know it, so he didn't really help me because he tried to help me, but because I look up to him and think he's my hero. His actions weren't important to a lot of people but they were important to me. He involuntarily helped helped me express my feelings without hurting anyone else.

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Edgar Allen Poe wasn't really a hero to a lot of people, but he was my personal hero. So, I'm going to focus on his poetry particularly his poem "Romance" this poem changed how I look at a girl not how pretty they are but how they have feelings and are on the inside. It's changed how I act all in all as well, and I feel that I'm now headed in the right direction. It also makes you think a lot harder then you would normally want to. Most Americans want to be told what's right and what's wrong, but this poem is how ever you interpret it to be. It could be a love poem, or maybe it could be some rendom poem he wrote, it's what ever you think it is. It didn't really impact many lives, only the people who see the good in things, can truely be impacted by poetry. Edgar once said " That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward." That's told me to show how I feel and don't trie to bottle it all up and seem brave, because truly inside you are a coward.

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Another one of the poems that Edgar wrote was "Alone" and in this poem I interpret to be a story of how he grew up invisible to other people, not physicly but mentaly. What I mean by this is that people didn't pay attention to him, because they thought he was nothing, a spec of dust on an old antique dresser. Then it tells of how he didn't let that bother him as he grew older he became more aware of this and wrote some poetry that he may not know has changed my life. In elementry school I wasn't the best student I was smart, but not really smart, and I'm still learning, but I'm not that smart. Yet, I still do my best and write poetry and songs. I can express my feelings in poetry, not in my school work. This also doesn't impact a lot of people's minds. You must be open minded and willing to think hard about something to let poetry guide you in the right direction. Edgar Allen Poe once said " To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness." In my mind this meens you have to want greatness even if you don't think you can achieve it.

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A lot of people would not have thought that Edgar Allen Poe was a hero, because most of them thought he was crazy, but they don't like to think, that's why what I see in Edgar is a man who knows how to express his feelings in a way only true poets can. They didn't really try to stop him from from being my hero or anyone's hero for that matter, because most people thought he was crazy and tried to make him feel bad about himself, just because they thought he was wrong. But, Edgar didn't let that stop him, he kept writing poetry, and he just shook them off and kept on moving and eventually became famous.

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Although Edgar allen Poe has died he has left behind a magnificent collection of poems and books. He has not helped a lot of people, but he has definetly some people including me. I can't really say based on my researc, because he is my personal hero and most people don't think of him as a hero at all. He has helped me in so many ways. His poetry has changed my whole thinking process. Now I think things more thoroughly, and I think outside of the box now.

If there was a problem in the 21st century, he would say step back and think it through. Edgar has used his thought to solve many of his problems. For example, ninstead of telling everyone his feelings where he would be criticized and scolded, but instead he wrote poetry which in the century soon to come would become famous all across America. Also he would work slow at it and finish his thoughts instead of rushing through them. For example he never left his poems unfinished or left out details that could alter the whole poem. That is why Edgar Allen Poe is my hero.