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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"
"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Allan Poe
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Blake Shinston
(2/25/2009 8:35:00 AM) |
this poem is my favorite written by my favorite poet but ya got to admit most of Poe's poems are a little dark... and creepy... like a spider...
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Michael Pruchnicki
(1/7/2009 4:50:00 PM) |
Perhaps we are all embarked on each of our quixotic quests to find that Eldorado at the end of the rainbow (or over the rainbow) down that yellow brick road, and just maybe when we each reach our own Emerald City, we find the wizard has left us to our own devices. You got your heart, she got her brain, and we all got what we needed from the arduous pilgrimage, no matter that the wizard is a bit of a humbug! So you soldier on, trusting in your own resources. This is NOT the 'Pardoner's Tale', or the movie 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' based on Chaucer's classic which depicts the wages of sin in that greed leads to death of the body and damnation of the soul! The pardoner is a liar and a hypocrite, working his scam on the villagers who attend his sermons. But Poe's poem is not a modern parable for those of us who seek the grail of everlasting life (what person living today would undertake such a quest?) like a 21st century knight from La Mancha?
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Kevin Straw
(1/7/2009 7:18:00 AM) |
Perhaps this poem can be regarded as a metaphor for the religious life, in which the believer has no guarantee that the perfection he or she seeks exists.
The greatest adventure, perhaps, is to seek that to which only death can show you.
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Alicia Menard
(1/5/2009 8:23:00 AM) |
I think it is like the Movie Eldorado with the two selfish guys looking for gold...LOVE THAT MOVIE
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Alex Dorman
(3/11/2008 11:23:00 PM) |
I think the poem's about anything worth having. You go out to look for it, have not the easiest of times, and then realize it's not something to be found. It's something to be taken. And you 'ride, boldly ride' through whatever dark valley you must, to get it, if you really want it.
Seems like that to me, just from experience, or an extreme lack thereof.
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Derek Laforest
(2/25/2008 11:29:00 PM) |
thTihs poem is off the foshezeeeeeeeeeee
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Chris Felch
(1/7/2008 9:42:00 PM) |
That was a really good poem, so I decided to send you a link to one of my fav songs, PERFECT for this kind of poem, I am sure you have herd it before. Keep up the good work.
http: //youtube.com/watch? v=Hs5ExzpwEE4 Copy and past the link.
~Chris~
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Everett A Emerson
(10/11/2007 6:21:00 PM) |
I fell in love with this poem as a teenager, memorized it and repeated it to myself often. I am now 77 years old and it still rings true with me. Another philosopher of life, William Sanger, said it in another way: ' Live every day as if you are going to live forever.' Take on new challenges, learn a new language, maintain your health and strength, contribute to your community, make your life and activities as worthwhile as you can - Ride, boldly ride! !
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Connor Brown
(8/27/2007 7:47:00 PM) |
IF you ask me, I believe that the poem spoke of a mans journey to death, not of one searching for el Dorado, but that of any man, and in some ways, Edgar himself, for he only found peace and retreat from the sorrow of the world in death.
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