This week I chose to write my blog on "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe. This is the poem Taylor and I are presenting to the class.
This poem is very dark and has a depressing undertone. The poem is straightforward, but the description is very detailed and metaphorical. A think that "Alone" is a glimpse into Poe's actual feelings and it helps you understand how he wrote such dark, but cool stories.
In the first couple of lines, Poe describes how he sees the world differently than others, how he never fit in and basically, was alone. The feeling the poem generated for me was that Poe was so consumed and overtaken with being alone and never fitting in, that he turned to darkness because it was the only thing that accepted him. The last half of the poem made me think this when he described the cloud that formed like a demon.
I think he was a lonely man because he vividly captures what it means to be alone. Good.
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