The former puts forward the thesis that his lack of language resulted in his unfinished poems.

"I went to my files and found unfinished poems and started revising them," she said.

It is unclear if Poe intended this to be part of "Eulalie," an unfinished new poem, or just a personal note.

He had tried once as a young man - in his unfinished poem The Passion - and hadn't been able to go on.

The unfinished poem in his suicide note read, in part:

I sat for a long while, clutching the unfinished poem, gazing beyond it.

He completed his unfinished poems and revised others with the help of Burke's criticism.

"To Margaret" may be an unfinished poem, never published in Poe's lifetime.

It breaks off in mid-line, leaving the poem unfinished at the end of the second page.

He is convinced that his unfinished poem predicted and determines the course of events.