Poe's writing is a very descriptive writer, what specific details stay in your mind? Why? How do these small details lead to larger ideas?
Please use other Poe examples to your explain why. Please, don't be short with your answers. Also, feel free to talk about the language that Poe uses to describe things.
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the details that stay in my mind are his description of what I imagine as a tall mountain. He sees the tall red cliffs but its such a tall mountain that the top is in the clouds. There is a large storm cloud and thunder and lightning come out of it. Its fall and the trees are a blaze with yellows and golds. Its just real and alive to me and reminds me of something I would think when if I saw the top of a picturesque plagued with rolling clouds dropping their electric furry down. And a child not understanding why he thinks is beautiful, yet so bad. Poe tends to show the beauty in things people consider so bad.
hmm...I don't really know what to think. I don't like this kind of writing too much. It just seems like he uses way to many words to say that he was different than most people.
Of course, I can see how this is good. It has a style that a lot of people would like, good metaphors, and a deeply emotional feel. I personally don't like it much.
One part I liked was the first four lines, it really sets the feel for the rest of the poem.
I really liked this, actually. It wasn't really long winded, and was remarkably to-the-point for Poe.
His details were really interesting, and the metaphors/similes, "My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken."
I actually had to read through it a couple times to get the full of the piece, but how he speaks of growing older, and switching from a "dawn" of childhood to a "storm" of later years, it was really remarkable.
To be honest, I'm not a huge Poe person-- but I really enjoyed this. Everything was really simplistic, and not overwrought.
I have not read a lot of Poe's work, but I heard it was dark and dreary so I knew what to expect. I think he uses the right details to get his point accross. He did not need to use too much description to describe himself as different from everyone, but I like the relations he uses with the "common spring" and how he summed it all up with "And all I loved, I loved alone." Like Bizz said before me I didn't quite get all of what he was trying to say the first time through.
I like Poe but he can be kind of wordy. I didn't fully understand what he was trying to say with the demon standing before him in the end. He was probably making some witty remarks about how different he was and his life. I think his wife or mother died of TB.
Honestly, I don't really like poetry. I can't edit it. It doesn't make sense to me and rhyming drives me nuts.
My favorite parts of description had to deal with weather because of the transitions that they provided. Towards the beginning, Poe says, "I could not bring/My passions from another spring." I thought the spring was symbolic for youth and innocence. Then dawn comes and with it a storm, in which something opposite a spring is described, he uses words associated with fire such as "autumn" and "red" and "demon". Bizz said that this was pretty simplistic, and I do agree that the language makes the poem pretty easy to read. However, I think it is easy to overlook the meaning behind this poem even though the title spells it out and the language is simple.
There are a couple of details that really stand out to me in Alone by Edgar Allen Poe, they both seem like centers of the story as well. The first one is where he mentions "As others saw; I could not bring, My passions from a common spring." This gives me the impression that as a child he was very different from the rest of the kids, and I'm sure everybody has felt a bit cast out at one point in their lives. And I thought the way he worded it was pretty creative.
The other example has been mentioned a couple times by previous readers, but I'm referring to the red cliffs and ominous mountain that he describes. It takes up about half of this story so he must have some deep importance for it. I believe that he's using such strong descriptions of these mountains to build a sense of utter uselessness to the reader. If you stand at the bottom of a mountain, you feel pretty insignificant.
I think both of these sections illustrate the point that Poe is trying to get across, and that's the feeling of being utterly alone.
One specific detail from "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe, was when it says "My heart to joy at the same tone, and all I'd loved- I loved alone, In my childhood- in the dawn, of a stormy life- was drawn." It seems like he is, of course, lonely and that he had a shadowed life as a child. When I say "shadowed," I mean that he had a dark, upsetting childhood, and that he was not loved by people, such as his parents. I'm not saying I'm correct, but that's what I got out of it.
I liked this essay, it was kinda short and to the point. it was extremely descriptive, and i loved how he explained even the smallest detail. Poe is a very good author, but its was pretty hard for me to understand what he was talking about at first. i had to read it a couple times before i understood it.
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