First Read Edgar Allen Poe
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Re: First Read Edgar Allen Poe
"I am grateful for all the books that sparked my imagination." -Unknown
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I completely agree. It's poetic rhythm is beautifully melodic. "Annabel Lee" has always been my favorite...it is the epitome of romantic, a forbidden love that transcends even death. Haunting, lovely, and filled with the anguish of heartbreak.Valerie_Joy wrote:The first thing I read by Edgar Allen Poe was Annabel Lee. I love this poem, and I love how he makes it rhyme. The story line behind it is really deep. I just love how he wrote it.
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Shyrene
Once upon my nocturne sorrow,
As I delineate the morrow,
Of a dream dazzling in the night,
But fizzled in the morning light,
Such that when waves swept me ocean
Of glum, beneath skies, cerulean,
My memory held so serene,
The fairest woodland nymph, Shyrene;
When queer apparition, wandered,
Seems my sanity, it squandered,
As gaily danced on my window,
A pallid dew and a rainbow,
Through the night, and half my bottle,
All my memories they baffle,
Except one that I held serene,
That of my woodland nymph, Shyrene;
Now my last drop of oblivion,
In this outpouring of passion,
To the sea of nepenthe borne,
With flotsam that the storm has torn,
With the advancing squall, raging,
And the seething swell, rampaging,
Plays in my memory serene,
My fairest woodland nymph, Shyrene.
...To delineate the times that lovers miss,
...A thousand dreams can't beat a single kiss.
-reyvrex (Love Sonnet 107)
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I love Poe’s detective stories as well and feel they don’t always get enough attention. In “The Murders of the Rue Morgue”, you can see how Poe’s writing and his character Dupin must have influenced future great detective writers such as Doyle and Christie.
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
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