p.a. noushad (7/14/2008 3:36:00 AM)
your poems wonder me. |
Knight in missouri 0 (3/26/2008 1:38:00 PM)
You all are talking bout edgar allan poe. Some good and some bad. Yes in peoples eyes some poems is good and some are bad and even depressing. But no matter what kind of comment you make just remember this. Mr. Poe is and always will be a legend. He is a good poet. Everyone knows he is. He made a name for him self. He followed his dream and it payed off in the end. and he made alot of money with his poetry. So befor you bring the man down just listen and dont judge a book by its cover.
Joe
thank you |
Andy Lopez (3/25/2008 3:33:00 AM)
this guy got a few goods but the rest r 2 depressing for me |
Kristyn Sommers (10/13/2007 3:01:00 PM)
I've been waiting a long time to tell you this...well actually not too long because I just found out about this website today, but still. You really bake my potato Edgar Allen Poe! You suck and your poems suck and your moustache sucks! |
Edgar Eslit (8/17/2007 2:33:00 AM)
I simply love the work of this buddy and his being a poet. I always read his poems with owe. My mother loved him the most though; it's where she got my first name. Had it not because of my brother's name Allan, my name would have been Edgar Allan Eslit. |
Christine Woodrich (4/23/2007 11:19:00 AM)
Edgar Allan Poe is most definately my favorite poet of all time. He's been so inspirational to me and it was his work that gave me the desire to write. He was a truly wonderful man. |
Leah Short (8/10/2005 3:28:00 PM)
OKay, to start, Edgar Allen Poe was never an alcoholic. He was severely allergic to alcohol but after he died to boost the popularity of his work, publicists started rumours about a dark and immoral life style that was supposed to be reflected in Poe's writings. However, had Poe partaken of any of the narcotic substances he was accused of favoring, he would have dropped cold dead. Which brings us to the mystery of his death. The last three days of Poe's life are completely mysterious. It is speculated that he was either beaten and left for dead by the brothers of his fiance at the time (a woman of stature who's family was not happy about her involvement with the author) or died because of his alcohol allergy, victim to a practice at that time were street gangs paid off by politicians would kidnap men, force them drunk, and then make them vote over and over for the same candidate. I forgot the slang term for this practice, something lemonade. All in all most of the stories about Poe are rumours to glorify his lifestyle and so forth work. He was not the dark and completely brooding character of his stories. He was simply a man who lost both the women he loved to TB, fascinated with the macabre, who happened to be a brilliant writer. I am a fan of his work, the short stories more than the poetry because I feel sometimes he gets too bogged down in allusions, though I understand that is the style of the time. There are stories that after The Raven was published in a local newspaper, the children who lived in Poe's neighbor hood would run after him yelling 'Hey raven man! ' and he would pull his coat up over his shoulders like wings and chase them yelling 'Nevermore! ' and laughing. |
funky town (5/11/2005 4:02:00 PM)
edger allen poe is one of the greatest poets of all time and i feel that this poem really shows what he was made of...... simply PERFECT |
Anastasia Hagerstrom (3/15/2005 5:22:00 PM)
I mistakenly used several devices on my keyboard and it translated as an error in Baudelaire's statement on Edgar Allan Poe. It should read:
In his case every introductory passage quietly draws you in like a whirlpool. His solemnity takes the reader by surprise and keeps his mind alert. Immediately he feels that something serious is invovled. And slowly, little by little, a story unfolds in which all interest depends on an imperceptible intellectual deviation on a bold hypothesis, on an imprudent dose of Nature in the amalgam of faculties. The reader, seized by a kind of vertigo, is constrained to follow the author through his compelling deductions. Baudelaire,1856 |
Anastasia Hagerstrom (3/15/2005 5:15:00 PM)
The significance of this poem is Poe's masterful rhetorical devices which created a role for the reader to enter. In 'A Dream Within A Dream: Poe scripted the reader to slip inside his imagined world. By using first person narrative, Poe, gently led the reader into the role of 'I'. The 'I' invites the reader to open their imagination, their memories and insights of loss and despair. By breaking the distance between the page and the reader's gaze, Poe scripted the 'I' to be universal.
Read Charles Baudelaire's comments on Poe. He connected with Poe's genius. This is from Baudelarie: In case every introductory passage quietly draws you in like a whirlpool. His solemnity takes the reader by surprise and keeps his mind alert. Immediately he feels that something serious is involved. And slowly, little by little, a story unfolds in which all interest depends on an imperceptible intellectual deviation on a bold hypothesis, on an imprudent dose of Nature in the amalgam of faculties. The reader, seized by a kind of vertigo, is constrained to follow through his compelling deductions. (Baudelaire,1856) |
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