Edgar Allan Poe Individualism Analysis

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19th Century Poet, Edgar Allen Poe, is regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in American Literature. The literary and artistic movement emphasized imagination and emotions. These traits of romanticism are reflected in Poe’s works such as A Dream Within a Dream and Annabel Lee. The movement of Romanticism encouraged a rebellion of established social rules and convention, and through Romanticism, Poe expresses the American theme of Non-Conformity and Individualism.

The poem A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe was written in 1849 and is philosophical and existential as in the poem the narrator questions whether everything in life is just an Illusion or dream. The Poem is reflective of romanticism as emotion and the Idea of human

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