Poe was fascinated with the theme of the doppelganger, or double, and in this story there are actually two sets of them. Ligeia, as the narrator's soul mate, is also his doppelganger; but in death she subsumes the body and the identity of Rowena, actually erasing her as if she'd never existed at all. Her love is, indeed, more powerful than death, which was a central theme for Poe.
Poe's mother died when he was a small child; his best friend's mother, whom he considered a second mother in his heart, died when Poe was in his teens; and Poe's wife Virginia was always sickly and died young.
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