Edgar Allan Poe

Poems

 

Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
      The angels, whispering to one another,
    Can find, among their burning terms of love,
      None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
    Therefore by that dear name I long have called you-
      You who are more than mother unto me,
    And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you
      In setting my Virginia's spirit free.
    My mother- my own mother, who died early,
      Was but the mother of myself; but you
    Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,
      And thus are dearer than the mother I knew
    By that infinity with which my wife
      Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.





Analyzation- To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe.
Analyzation- I think in Heaven. 
The angels are whispering.
Among all love.
None as powerful as Mother.
By that name I call you.
You are more than Mother to me.
You filled my heart, when you died.
Letting me free.
Mother, you died so young.
You were My Mother.
You are the one I love so much.
You are dearer than the one I knew.
Just like my wife. 












Poetic Devices



In the Poem "To My Mother" written by Edgar Allan Poe 

includes many poetic devices. One of which is sound, Poe uses 

sound to describe his feelings about step-mother dying. Which

he loved more than his real mother who died early.

Another type is imagery which he uses to share

the emotions in further detail of his feelings about his mothers

death. Lastly he uses Figurative Language to compare what

he was feeling when his mother died. This was later in the 

poets life, the same year he died.








Comparing

In " To My Mother" Poe uses all three devices to show more 

emotion to his mother when she died, than his wife when she

 died. I think that this is because the loss of his mother had a

 greater effect on his life than his wife. Also because he had

 experienced a death like this before in his case his Mother. In

 this poem Poe did not use as much Figurative Language and I

 think this is because he did not really need to further

 emphasize this event, rather with his wife he didn't need it

 because she didn't have an effect on the rest of his life, and the

 same year she died he did too. The writing between the end

and Beginning poems by Edgar Poe are different because he 

uses different vocabulary, and punctuation to show the same 

thought, though.





Tone and Mood

The Tone difference is greater than the one in "Alone" because

 in "To My Mother" he did not use Figurative Language to detail

 the situation and it was the death of his mother which changed

 his life significantly. As in "Alone" his wife wasn't a big change,

 and he had to add Figurative Language to alter and change the

 thought about this topic to create equal sadness about his 

mother. The Mood difference is the same because they are both

 deaths but have certain changes with the way he stated his 

feelings.





Author's Voice

The Writers Voice is different in many ways like he uses 

different punctuation like in "To My Mother" he uses more 

commas, while in "Alone" he uses more semi-colons and 

dashes.

 
From childhood's hour I have not been
        As others were; I have not seen
        As others saw; I could not bring
        My passions from a common spring.
        From the same source I have not taken
        My sorrow; I could not awaken
        My heart to joy at the same tone;
        And all I loved, I loved alone.
        Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
        Of a most stormy life- was drawn
        From every depth of good and ill
        The mystery which binds me still:
        From the torrent, or the fountain,
        From the red cliff of the mountain,
        From the sun that round me rolled
        In its autumn tint of gold,
        From the lightning in the sky
        As it passed me flying by,
        From the thunder and the storm,
        And the cloud that took the form
        (When the rest of Heaven was blue)
        Of a demon in my view. 

Analyzation- Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.
I have never been a child
like others have. I have not seen
what others did. I could not bring
passion from a new beginning.
From the same place my sadness 
has not left; I could not become
happy at the time;
all I loved, I loved alone.
In my childhood the dawn of
troubled life, I was helped
from every good and bad
the mystery confuses me still:
from aggression to calmness,
to the fall in my career, 
to success in my writing,
just as life flew by me,
when Heaven was blue,
of a demon in my view.

Poetic Devices

In the Poem "Alone" written by Edgar Allan Poe includes many 
Poetic Devices. One is Imagery creating a picture in the readers 
mind of his emotions and feelings. So we know his struggles
and hardships better. Poe also uses figurative language to further
describe his emotions and give the reader the essentials to
really understand his point in this poem. This was at the start of 
Edgars career and was mainly about his childhood.

 







Contrasting

In both poems Poe uses the devices Imagery and Figurative 

Language, and they are both used to further detail information. 

Like in these two poems they are both based on sad events one 

after his mother's death, and then his wife's death. I think that he 

also used these to show greater emotion about struggles in his 

life. These poems do however have a lot in common, like the 

same emotion, and context of his writing.












Tone and Mood

The tone in both of these poems is sad because they both talk

 about the death of loved ones in Poe's life. Just like the tone the

 mood is creating the atmosphere is sadness for the death of

 family.









Author's Voice

The writers voice is much more old and elegant form of poetry

 like William Shakespeare. Between the two the voice is the 

same because you find the same meaning through different 

words that he has stated in the Poem.