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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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Joey Valenzuela
(1/7/2010 9:06:00 PM) |
i think.....
its about life..the journey of life.....
and in this journey were lookin for happiness, and/or success....that's ELDORADO
but in the way we meet obstacles.....
and even pain., , , , ,
''Over the Mountains
Of the Moon, ''
moon in poetry signifies grief or death...so maybe its described as huge obstacles that can inflict you the pain, or even death.....
''Down the Valley of the Shadow, ''
i dont kno but when i read this line i thought about cemetry......isnt this death? ? ?
hehe...hope i make sense....
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Lawrence S. Pertillar
(1/7/2010 8:33:00 AM) |
One man addressed and faced the consequences...
can be one interpretation of this wonderful poem.
Edgar Allan Poe is to poetry what Alfred Hitchcock
is to film. Both tremendous 'talents'.
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JOSEPH POEWHIT
(1/7/2010 7:07:00 AM) |
Reminded me of the play DEATH OF A SALESMAN - going through life searching. A modernized version of Eldorado
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Ramesh T A
(1/7/2010 1:37:00 AM) |
Chivalrous knight's adventure to the land of Eldorado seeking gold depicts the spirit of gold rush in western cowboy movie very well long ago by Edgar Allan Poe! Spirit of the poem makes the reader long for a few dollars more! ! !
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Marina Paić
(1/7/2010 12:29:00 AM) |
'Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride, '
The shade replied-
'If you seek for Eldorado! '
GREAT POET
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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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