Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Poe's poems more telling of his characteristics?
When we first talked about Poe's personality we said he was "dark" "Gothic" "drunken/drugged" and "crazy". After reading the poems where imagination dreams, fairies and the moon (what is up with all the moon imagery???) does anyone feel differently? His is more romantic then he would like us to be believe, more sentimental and feeding off the love of women he admired? I had read somewhere that he often would be more pitiful or sickly in order to gain a woman's affection. I often felt Poe was not represented as who he was because his prose was more popularized through movies, music etc. I want to know what everyone else thinks!
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I think that certainly, yes, Poe was using his love for Virginia as an inspiration. And it makes his poetry have that more romantic feel.
Nicole,
I think Poe used the moon as a muse. It’s a great word as it conjures up a multitude of images. If you look at all the songs and poems ever written by anyone, I’ll bet you find the word moon in 99% of them. The moon- a full moon is all bright and full and shinny- it’s optimistic – classically feminine – and romantic and scientific all at once. It’s hopeful, and fulfilling. I think Poe wrote about hope and beauty because he knew we had to dream of these things in order to bring them into our own lives.
By the way, I never thought he was crazy, dark, or Gothic. He just writes about those things cause human life in reality can be, crazy, dark and Gothic. Poe helps people feel normal - Part of the human family. It’s not us who’s crazy or nuts, it’s trying to fit in that is crazy.
After reading all those poems by Poe that I had never read before, I definitely saw Poe in a different light. Like Audrey, I never really thought him to be "crazy" per say but did have the image of him as a dark and Gothic type man just because of the works I'd read. But now, reading all these pieces with a mystical, fantasy-like vibe really opened my eyes to Poe as a man who is more than the "dark" writer.
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