I've currently have nothing really important to say but I was just thinking that some of you might like this poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It is one of my personal Favorites. It is entitled “Alone” and is of course like all of Poe’s other works very well written. I figured that some of you might find "Alone" interesting and may possibly like to read it in English class or just plain read it for pleasure.
-------------ALONE---------------
By Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
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redsnowrose
19 years ago
I love the poem, especially the first part, it's very much the way I feel.. I love Poe, I read his shorts stories when i was about 13.. I read them in dutch though. The original texts are far better, but a bit hard to understand when english isn't your given language.. I must buy some of his books sometime
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VIsraWratS
19 years ago
I'm glad you liked it. I myself find the poem to be very similar to my life. Mainly the years I spent in a state of isolation that I created for myself.
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