This week I decided to do my blog on Alone by Edgar Allen Poe. Alone struck me as a typical Edgar Allen Poe because of it's dark and kind of sad nature. Just the title is a little sad because being alone is only alright for so long. I actually kind of connected to this poem. I have never really had a plethora of friends, I mean I always had friends just not a whole ton. I was always kind of on the outskirts of things, seeing things kind of different then everyone else.
Anyways, as I read this poem I read it out loud. At first I was rasping the meaning of the poem but as I got toward the end of the poem I could only focus on the rhyme scheme. It was more or less, an AA BB structure. When I finished reading it I had to go back and read it a few more times in my head so that I could focus on the words of the poem in it's entirety.
As Poe claims there was a "demon in his view". I saw this as what he felt was keeping him from being like everyone else. I believe that it was not a demon at all though. It would be absurd for everyone to see things in the same way. We need people who think different than everyone else, people who are not 'average'. Just look at Poe. He was by no means 'average' but created many great pieces of writing.
Poe knows misery and loneliness! Good comment on his rhyme scheme. Now, why do you think he rhymed a poem like this? :) You are doing well, but try to go just a little bit deeper. I think you're totally on to something and then you just kind of walk away from it. Pick at it a little!
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