Where Once Poe Walked
Published on Oct 22, 2016
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Where Once Poe Walked
Written by HP Lovecraft, presented and analyzed by Harmony Simon
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Where Once Poe Walked
Eternal brood the shadows on this ground,
Dreaming of centuries that have gone before;
Great elms rise solemnly by slab and mound,
Arch'd high above a hidden world of yore.
Round all the scene a light of memory plays,
And dead leaves whisper of departed days,
Longing for sight and sounds that are no more.
Lonely and sad, a spectre glides along
Aisles where of old his living footsteps fell;
No common glance discerns him, tho' his song
Peals through time with a mysterious spell:
Only the few who sorcery's secret know
Espy amidst these tombs the shade of Poe.
- HP Lovecraft
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HP Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born and died in the Providence, Rhode Island. He was famous for his works in horror fiction, science fiction, and dark fantasy. Some of his more notable works are "The call of Cthulhu", "The shadow out of time", and "At the mountains of madness".
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Azathoth
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Nyarlathotep
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Cthulhu
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Lovecraft's work, although it is original in its own right, was influenced by the works of Edgar Allan Poe
“Poe has probably influenced me more than any other one person. If I have ever been able to approximate his kind of thrill, it is only because he himself paved the way by creating a whole atmosphere & method which lesser men can follow with relative ease.” (to J. Vernon Shea, 19 June 1931)
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Figurative Language
- Metaphor - "hidden world of yore" (line 4) "a spectre glides along" (line 8) "song Peals through time with a mysterious spell" (lines 10 -11) "shade of Poe" (line 13)
- Personification - "Eternal brood the shadows" (line 1) "dreaming of centuries" (line 2) "elms rise solemnly" (line 3) "memory plays" (line 5) "dead leaves whisper" (line 6) -"Longing" (line 7)
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- Alliteration - "solemnly by slab" (line 3) "departed days" (line 6) "sights and sounds" (line 7) "sorcery's secret" (line 12)
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Rhyme Scheme
- ground A fell B
- before B song A
- mound A spell B
- yore B know A
- plays A Poe A
- days A
- more B
- along A
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Where Once Poe Walked
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"Eternal brood the shadows on this ground, Dreaming of centuries that have gone before;
Great elms rise solemnly rise by slab and mound Arched high above a hidden world of yore."
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"Round all the scene a light of memory plays, And dead leaves whisper of departed days, Longing for sights and sounds that are no more."
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"Lonely and sad, a spectre glides along Aisles of old his living footsteps fell;"
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"No common glance discerns him, though his song Peals through time with a mysterious spell."
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"Only the few who sorcery's secret know, Espy amidst these tombs the shade of Poe."
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THEME STATEMENT:
Although the dead are gone, it is because of us who remember them and mark their existence that they can continue living on in the hearts and lives of those they have left behind.
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