People strive to be as good at poetry as were Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost. They were not only amazing poets but they were unique individuals with amazing skill. Their greatness is shown through their family backgrounds, their education, their first breaks and their overall accomplishments through writing and through life.

To begin with, Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, to father David Poe Jr. and mother Elizabeth Hopkins Poe. His father died in 1810 and his mother died in 1811. He was then adopted illegally by a merchant by the name of John Allan. For part of his life he was brought up in England from 1815 to 1820. In 1833 he lived with his father's sister. He married his thirteen year old cousin Virginia Clemm. In 1942 she burst a blood vessel and five years later she died of tuberculosis. After her death he started doing drugs...