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WHO IS EDGAR ALLAN POE

• Born January 1819
• Mother dies/dad abandon
• Adopted by Allan family
• University Virginia 1842
• West Point 1846
• Settled in Virginia
• Wife dies of tuberculosis
• He started writing professionally:
• He dies mysteriously at age of 40 October 7 1859

MEANING

• Poets childhood
• Could not relate to others
• His passions were different
• He was a social outcast
• Depression made him see negativity around him
• He is trying to convey a sense emptiness in his life

STRUCTURE

• One stanza
• Double rhyme structure AB
• - represents enjambment
• This one stanza represents how long his misery was,by making the reader out of breath.
• Most lines have 8 syllables and in the end 7 syllables

IMAGERY

• "The sun that round me rolld" represents how he was surounded by happiness he could not obtain (display's envy)
• "Of a demon in my view" represents his depression obscuring his way of life

LITERARY TECHNIQUES

• The poem uses Anaphora to emphasize importance of certain sentences
• Rhyming doubles

EFFECT

• "In its autumn tint of gold" helps the reader picture how bright he felt life was without him
• "I have not seen as other saw" and"I have not been as other were" have a similar structure to emphasizes the idea of how different he felt
• The theme is very dark and depressing

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