美国作家爱伦·坡因其作品中大量的死亡主题而备受争议。本文通过对其死亡主题小说的创作原因和具体表现的分析,得出结论:悲惨的生活遭遇和独特的创作原则导致坡对死亡主题的不倦探索;而对死亡的各种描述则表达了坡对于死亡的痛苦之后是美好的新生的渴望和通过书写超越现实,灵魂获得净化和永生的追求。 American writer Allan Poe has been the subject of controversy over the mass of deaths in his work. Through the analysis of the causes and the concrete manifestation of the death theme novels, this article draws the conclusion that the tragic life experience and the unique creative principle lead to the unremitting exploration of the death theme, while the various descriptions of death express the slope After the pain of death is the desire of a beautiful newborn and the pursuit of purification and eternal life by writing beyond reality, of the soul.