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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Extraordinary Existence
passion.”
“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a
This quote was said by Edgar Allan Poe which truly
depicts his passion for poetry made his works legendary and
memorable. He was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston
Massachusetts to traveling actors, David and Elizabeth Poe. Poe’s
parents had both died within three years of his birth and he was
taken in by an affluent merchant in Richmond, Virginia by the
name of John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan(“Edgar
Allan Poe Biography” 2). At the age of 6, Poe went to school in
Scotland, England for five years. Poe was very heartbroken and
the last few months in the Allan mansion were very antagonistic
until he stormed out of the home on a mission to find adventure
and become an astonishing poet. Two years after storming out he
found out that Frances Allan was ailing from tuberculosis. Poe
had been accepted into the United States Military Academy at
West Point, but was kicked out after just eight months. Being
broken and alone, Poe went to Baltimore and called upon
relatives in the city, where his Aunt Maria Clemn took him in. He
soon fell in love with Maria Clemn’s daughter, Virginia. When Poe
turned 27 he married Virginia Clemn, who was just 13 years of
age, in Richmond. After struggling because of the financial crisis,
known as “Panic of 1837”, Poe moved to New York City. After
living in New York City for a year, Poe relocated to Philadelphia.
Dissatisfaction and brokenness in his life led up to Poe’s death on
October 7, 1849 at the young age of 40, with the exact cause of
his death being a mystery(“Poe’s Life” 1).
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Poe’s life had been a tremendous influence on his books and poetry. His first
accomplishment, after storming out of the Allan mansion, was his book, Tamerlane, which
he published when he was only 18. Before attending West Point, Poe published another
volume of poetry. Poe, frustrated and upset, lasted just eight months in the United States
Military Academy at West Point (“Edgar Allan Poe” 2)Thrown out of the military, Poe soon
published yet another book. While Poe was in Baltimore, Allan had perished, leaving Poe
out of his will. Living in poverty, Poe began publishing his short stories, one of which won a
contest sponsored by the Saturday Visiter. He had established great connections through
the competition, which allowed him to print more stories. Poe finally discovered his life’s
work as a magazine writer, when he received an editorial position at the Southern Literary
Messenger in Richmond. Within a year of working for the Southern Literary Messenger, he
helped make the most accepted magazine in the south. He was able to make this possible
with his astounding stories, along with his scathing book reviews. His reputation soon
developed into that of a courageous critic who not only insulted the author and the
northern literacy establishment, but attacked an author’s work. One of Poe’s victims was
anthologist and editor, Rufus Griswold. After marrying Virginia Clemn and moving to New
York, he wrote his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and struggled to find
magazine work. After just one year in New York, Poe relocated to Philadelphia in 1838,
where he wrote a diverse number of magazines. While living in Philadelphia, Poe served as
editor of Buton’s magazine. He had also served as an editor of Graham’s magazines and
continued to sell articles to Alexander's Weekly Messenger and other journals. Poe was still
scarcely able to make a living, in spite of his growing fame. When his original book of short
stories, Tales of the Grotesque, was published, he was only paid with 25 free copies of his
book. In search of better opportunities, Poe moved back to New York in 1844, where he
introduced himself to the city by perpetrating a hoax. His sensational "news story", of a
balloon trip across the ocean, had caused the community to read everything about it, until
Poe revealed he had deceived them. Poe had been made a household name in January
1845 with the publication of The Raven.
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However, gossip about Poe's relationship with a married women spreading, forced him to leave the city in
1846. After fleeing the city, Poe moved to a small cottage in the country and it was here where Poe's wife
had died, after suffering from tuberculosis, at the age of 24. He had become devastated causing him to be
unable to write for months. In Lowell, Massachusetts, while on lecture tour, Poe met and befriended a
woman by the name of Nancy Richmond, and she had soon inspired some of his well-known poetry. After
his wife had passed away, Poe had spent much of his time touring from one city to the next giving lectures
and finding backers for his future magazine project to be called, The Stylus (“Poe’s Life” 2).
The name Poe brings to mind many images. When people hear his name they think of
images, such as premature burials, murderers and madmen and mysterious women returning from the
dead. He is often seen as morbid, with crumbling castles or mysterious figures lurking in the shadows of
moonlit cemeteries. He made his livelihood as America's first great literacy critic and theoretician. His
reputation mostly rests today on his tales of terror, as well as on his memorable lyric poetry. Poe uses
literary devices such as, anadiplosis, which is the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin
the next, to bring the reader into what they are reading and make them begin to feel and think the way
the characters do. Poe has been widely acknowledged as an innovator in the science fiction genre and the
inventor of the modern detective story (“Poe’s Life” 1).
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Alone
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Conqueror Worm
Dream-Land
A Dream Within A Dream
Eldorado
For Annie
The Haunted Palace
The Raven
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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost LenoreFor the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name LenoreNameless here for evermore.
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In “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism to relate many ideas throughout this
poem. This somber poem describes Poe’s sorrow and anger after the passing of his wife. Symbols
are something visible that represents something else that is invisible by association or convention.
The raven is a representation of death in consort with mournful and never-ending sadness, which
Poe uses to relate to the death of his loved one. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore” along with “Ah,
distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December/ And each separate dying ember wrought its
ghost upon the floor,” Poe states just how miserable he is and his desire to be happy again.
December and midnight are both described as the end of something and the anticipation of
something new such as, a change. Poe used these terms to describe his longing for happiness and
the end of sorrow. “Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-/Tell me
why the lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!" In this quote, Poe used the Plutonian
shores to symbolize hell. “Is there- is there balm in Gilead?- tell me- tell me, I implore.” The balm
in Gilead is a fictitious place mention in the Old Testament referring to no more suffering. Poe is
asking for his end to suffering and hopes to find it soon. Through Poe’s symbolism he reminds us
the anger and agony many suffer after the loss of a loved one.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” was on of his last complete poetic achievements.
This poem follows one of his favorite themes, the death of a beautiful young woman. In this
poem Poe describes his love for young Annabel Lee and even after her death his love for her
will always remain. “The angels, not half/ so happy in Heaven, /Went envying her and me:-/Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, /In this kingdom by the sea) /That the wind came
out of a cloud, chilling /And killing my Annabel Lee.” These lines stood out to me because Poe is
saying that their love was so intense it caused the angels to become jealous. He believes for
that reason the angels caused her death. I chose this poem because it shows that true love
does exist and there is love strong enough to endure death.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;-And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee-With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
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The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:-Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than weAnd neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:-For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea-In her tomb by the side of the sea.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within A Dream” is just one of his many incredible achievements. This
poem reflects his feelings with his life at the time and shows his confusion in watching the important things in
his life slip away. Poe uses the “golden sand” to represent his loved ones. “Grains of the golden sand--/How
few! yet how they creep/Through my fingers to the deep,/While I weep--while I weep!/ O God! can I not
grasp/ Them with a tighter clasp?/ O God! can I not save/ One from the pitiless wave?” These lines stood out
to me the most because they show that no matter how tight he grasps his loved ones they are always taken
away by death which he refers to as the pitiless wave. I chose this poem because there has been a time in my
life when it just feels like no matter what or how hard you care for them your loved ones are always being
taken away illness and death.
A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a
dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
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Sonnet -- To Science by Edgar Allan Poe
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
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Sonnet: To Science
Science! How I love thee chemistry you are the best
With your complex formulas,
Crazy theories
I hope I can pass
Science! How I love thee chemistry you are the best.
I love your test tubes,
Your Bunsen burners,
Your God awful tests.
I hope I can pass.
Science! How I love thee chemistry you are the best.
One more burn, one more explosion
Only blind in one eye,
The professor say it should only last a week
I’m not so sure I will pass.
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To My Mother By Edgar Allan Poe
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
Therefore by that dear name I long have called
youYou who are more than mother unto me,
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death
installed you
In setting my Virginia's spirit free.
My mother- my own mother, who died early,
Was but the mother of myself; but you
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
By that infinity with which my wife
Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
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Grandpa by Ryan Hoiland
(Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem To My Mother)
Because I feel that in heavens
above,
my grandfather watches over me,
With his generous blue eyes and
soft gentle smile,
I can almost hear him speak.
“I’m there with you. I’m in your
dreams. I will never leave.”
His tender benevolence, his soft
spoken ways,
I know in my heart he will forever
be by me.
I never thought he’d leave this
earth so soon,
Though he never truly moved on.
Sometimes this world is
challenging, I don’t think I’ll
endure,
But here he is alongside me
I can nearly sense his calloused
hands,
Fall upon my shoulders,
Making sure I don’t fall.
I wish I had one moment,
One minute lost in time,
To embrace my grandpa,
Stand before his kindness, stand
before those eyes
And hear “I love you” one more
little time
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Faith by Ryan Hoiland
Some say you can’t walk with Faith
alone,
But have they tried?
Have they opened their arms,
Closed their eyes,
And took the first step in stride?
Hope is in my dreams
Cherishing what tomorrow may bring.
Love is in my heart,
With the desire to fulfill itself.
But good ole Faith stands by my side,
Getting me through this rollercoaster,
I call my life
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What It Meant To Lose You
by Ryan Hoiland
Stars are shining brightly,
Upon a precious grave.
Beneath lies one we truly loved,
But could not save.
Friend may think we’ve forgotten,
But our tears are shed like rain.
They say time heals all sorrows,
But times seems to only prove,
How much we miss you.
Its God who stands beside me.
Even when things are stressful.
He gives me strength to fight it,
And courage to bare the blow.
But though this is true,
No one will ever know,
What it meant to lose you.
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Biography:
http://www.biography.com/articles/Edgar-Allan-Poe-9443160
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/130
http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
Picture CreditsNight sky:
http://s388.photobucket.com/albums/oo328/becky_is_a_star_94/?action=view&curre
nt=night-sky.jpg&newest=1
Footprints:
http://tinyurl.com/3nssv36
Bunsen Burners and Test tubes:
http://tinyurl.com/4346x45
Grain of Sand:
http://tinyurl.com/3ks2qbx
Angel:
http://tinyurl.com/3fwjvmx
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Picture CreditsEdgar Allan Poe:
http://tinyurl.com/3cfwu4q
The Raven:
http://tinyurl.com/3ndxtnv
Black Raven:
http://tinyurl.com/4yeotjv
Heavens Gate:
http://tinyurl.com/4x6cmc2
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