It is connected to part of the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits between the U.S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea (with which it forms the American Mediterranean Sea) via the Yucatan Channel between Mexico and Cuba. With the narrow connection to the Atlantic, the Gulf experiences very small tidal ranges.
He was about 18 years old when he first published his book of poems. Edgar Allan Poe's first book was called Tamerlane and Other Poems and was published in Boston, Massacuâ¦setts in June or July 1827.
The first known rhyme written by Edgar Allan Poe was written in  late 1824, and it went like this:    Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,   Weary, I laiâ¦d me on a couch to rest -..    It was never published in Poe's lifetime either alone or within  another poem.