his classes and duties and was expelled after eight months. (Meyers, 1992, p.54-55).Before Edgar left West Point he received financial aid from his fellow cadets to publish a third edition of the book. Edgar called it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems By Edgar A. Poe" in which his famous poems "To Helen" and "Israfel" appeared. These show of the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems. In 1832 he won a $50 prize for his story "MS. (Manuscript) Found in a Bottle" in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. In 1835 Poe married his cousin Virginia, only thirteen years old at the time, and then left her and her mother in Baltimore, while he went on to Richmond, where he worked with Thomas White at the Southern Literary Messenger. Most of Edgar's work with the Messenger was of critical nature but he also published some literary work such as "Berenice" and "Morella". Both concern Poe's primary obsession: the death of a beautiful woman and the power of love and beauty to survive beyond the grave. In "Morella," a husband's disliking for his wife exacerbates, and he longs for her death with great anticipation. Yet she seems to prophesize her destiny, as only Poe would have it: "I am dying, yet I shall live." The birth of her child brings about her body's decease, however the dead woman's spirit is reincarnated in the body of her daughter when her husband names the child after her, calling her Morella during the Baptism. The young Morella grows up with great correlation to her deceased mother. She is alluded to by the narrator as "a worm that would not die," thus stating that she represents the 'satanic evil of the serpent and the torments of those who have transgressed against the Lord'. After her death, her tormented father lays her in her grave and "laughed with a long and bitter laugh as I found no traces of the first, in the charnel where I laid the second, Morella." Thus the primary Morella fulfills her prediction,...
