Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
Analysis
"Alone" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was written after the death of Poe's foster mother Francis Allan in February of 1829. It went unpublished until September 1875 when his published it in Scribner's Monthly. Even though this poem is often believed to have been written on March 17, 1829, the date was actually added by E. L. Didier when he edited the manuscript in 1875.
In this poem, Poe writes about his seemingly horrid childhood and its effects it had on him.
This writing is made up of only one stanza and it rhymes as couplets.
Poem
Alone 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 Written in 1829.
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Nationality
American
Literary Movement
Romanticism, 19th Century
Subjects
Childhood, Death
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American
Literary Movement
Romanticism, 19th Century
Subjects
Childhood, Death