“Alone” by Edger Allan Poe it’s a poem about a child going through the hardship of life, because people do not understand him and what he sees that others aren’t like him. It’s a lyric poem with one stanza and 3 run-on lines and it has an end rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and the meter of line 1-4 is iambic tetrameter then line 13-17 it changes to trochaic tetrameter and at the end it’s catalectic. But Poe 3 major analysis is voice, imagery and figure of speech that created this amazing poem. One of the many analysis that Poe uses is voice to express his poem the way he does this is by using Tone, which express feeling by using certain words like sorrow and alone and its shows it in “My sorrow--I could not awaken” (line 6) or “And all I lov’d--I
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And presented in the beginning of the poem “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 lov’d--I lov’d alone” (lines 1-8) Poe might have used a dark tone for his poem to express his childhood, by using certain words like alone and sorrow to express his feelings within his own poem. When interpreting Poe using imagery using the senses to express his life of feeling alone and that time goes by really fast and when you realize it in the end he still alone, for example “From the torrent, or the fountain-- From the red cliff of the mountain-- From the sun that ‘round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold-- From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by,” (lines 13-18). So I think that Poe used imagery to express time flying by through nature and its cycles, the interpretation how Poe frequently uses figure of speech like alliteration, metaphor and anaphora to understand the poem and to give more impact emphasis and balance within the poem. And with the last four lines using metaphor to explain his life at the end, …show more content…
That everyone can sort of understand feeling alone and that people might not understand who you are and what your passions are, which to me makes this poem underrated but a timeless piece of
And presented in the beginning of the poem “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 lov’d--I lov’d alone” (lines 1-8) Poe might have used a dark tone for his poem to express his childhood, by using certain words like alone and sorrow to express his feelings within his own poem. When interpreting Poe using imagery using the senses to express his life of feeling alone and that time goes by really fast and when you realize it in the end he still alone, for example “From the torrent, or the fountain-- From the red cliff of the mountain-- From the sun that ‘round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold-- From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by,” (lines 13-18). So I think that Poe used imagery to express time flying by through nature and its cycles, the interpretation how Poe frequently uses figure of speech like alliteration, metaphor and anaphora to understand the poem and to give more impact emphasis and balance within the poem. And with the last four lines using metaphor to explain his life at the end, …show more content…
That everyone can sort of understand feeling alone and that people might not understand who you are and what your passions are, which to me makes this poem underrated but a timeless piece of