Q:Build a movie plot around this: What is the name of Poe's childhood sweetheart? Sarah Elmira Royster
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After a textual montage summarizing Edgar Allan Poe's life, the film begins in late September 1849 with Poe awakening from a hallucination where he is buried alive. He prepares to take a trip to New York City via Baltimore. He discusses his plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, Sarah Elmira Royster, with a stranger taking the same steamboat, who suggests he meet with a few potential investors for his planned magazine 'The Stylus'. Though Poe had intended only to pass through, he agrees to meet the investors who, one by one, turn down his request for funding.Poe is depicted as having some type of memory loss, offering to pay his boat fare twice after forgetting he had already paid. In Baltimore, he more than once forgets the arrangements he has made at his hotel as his stay in the city is extended. One night, he chooses to dine in a local tavern rather than at the hotel. There, he meets an old friend from his days at West Point. In desperation, he asks his former classmate and the classmate's companion for money to help start a magazine, saying proudly he has already raised $1,000. Poe leaves the tavern to retrieve his prospectus for the magazine. His classmate and friend follow him out where they beat him up to steal the $1,000 he had collected, leaving him in an dirty alley.An injured and delirious Poe is then found by organizers of a cooping ring. The author, along with several others, are forced to multiple polling locations around Baltimore to place multiple votes for the candidate for mayor. A couple of victims of the scam die amidst the brutality of their captors.Afterwards, Poe is released and eventually collapses in the street where he is found by a local tavern owner. The man calls for Poe's uncle Henry Herring and Dr. Joseph Snodgrass. The men discuss what to do with the incoherent, half-conscious Poe. Snodgrass assumes that he is drunk and suggests they let him sleep it off (a theory that seems to dispute by showing him early in the film declining offered alcohol several times). Herring becomes...