Edgar Allan Poe 2

Absence of Beauty Edgar Allan Poe sees evil as a living threat to man because he lives in its presence. Parallel with the tragedies in his own life relating to the deaths of his young mother, wife and others he loved in his life. It is no wonder that he sees the absence of beauty as evil, because he felt the terror and tragedy of the loss of his own life. In his stories he …

…it was destroyed the city was no longer beautiful all of its beauty was destroyed and it no longer existed. The city became evil because beauty was no longer there. Evil is the absence of beauty because when beauty no longer exist it is the evil that will come out. Everybody lives in the presence of evil our only escape from that evil is beauty. This can only happen momentarily because beauty cannot exist forever.