Life can be cruel or it can be full of joyful and beautiful moments. Unfortunately in the case of Edgar Allan Poe it generally consisted of cruel and devastating moments. “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe was a poem where he expresses the effects the tragic and devastating loss of his mother and the departure of his father.Throughout the poem he demonstrates outcome of these losses and how they contributed to his different view of the world that he developed later on. Poe uses symbolism, imagery and personification to develop the theme of trauma. For instance, Poe uses symbolism to create a different view between the him and the rest of the world. For example, "From my childhood's hour I have not been / As others were" (line 1). Due to the loss
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When he states, “From the lightning in the sky/As it passed me flying by,”(18-17). He is illustrating a dark and cloudy day with constant lightning bolts passing by his side. This quote is an example of personification because he describes the lightning bolts to be “flying by” and logically a lightning can not be a passenger of a plane and fly by because those require human characteristics. But Poe knows this and decides to uses it as a form of personification so the reader can create imagery and have a better understanding of the poem and guide then toward the theme. Similarly, at the end of the poem Poe uses personification again to construct imagery. The author is describing his view of the sky and says , “And the cloud that took the form/Of a demon in my view.”(20-22). He is illustrating the clouds in the dark sky taking form of a demon. Thi is important because if is successfully leading the reader to create an image in his mind while reading the poem. The image created is full of evil and darkness and since he intends it to be his view of the sky he is implying that he has a dark and evil view of the world while he describes the view of others as “Heaven” and “blue” which is a positive view. As a result he uses personification to create imagery and enable the reader to develop the theme of trauma because Poe seems to be traumatized and thats causes him to have a negative and evil view
When he states, “From the lightning in the sky/As it passed me flying by,”(18-17). He is illustrating a dark and cloudy day with constant lightning bolts passing by his side. This quote is an example of personification because he describes the lightning bolts to be “flying by” and logically a lightning can not be a passenger of a plane and fly by because those require human characteristics. But Poe knows this and decides to uses it as a form of personification so the reader can create imagery and have a better understanding of the poem and guide then toward the theme. Similarly, at the end of the poem Poe uses personification again to construct imagery. The author is describing his view of the sky and says , “And the cloud that took the form/Of a demon in my view.”(20-22). He is illustrating the clouds in the dark sky taking form of a demon. Thi is important because if is successfully leading the reader to create an image in his mind while reading the poem. The image created is full of evil and darkness and since he intends it to be his view of the sky he is implying that he has a dark and evil view of the world while he describes the view of others as “Heaven” and “blue” which is a positive view. As a result he uses personification to create imagery and enable the reader to develop the theme of trauma because Poe seems to be traumatized and thats causes him to have a negative and evil view