Alone by Edward Allen Poe (1875)

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 lov’d–I lov’d alone–

Then–in my childhood– in the dawn

Of a most stormy life– was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and i’ll

The mystery which blinds me still–

From the torrent, or the fountain–

From the red cliff of the mauntian–

From the sun that’ round me roll’d

In it’s 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.

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SOAPSTONE!!!

SUBJECT: The subject is about a boy that seems to have problems in life, and see’s the greatest things with no significance. He feels lonely and depressed.

OCASSION: The ocassion is in spirng and the fall because the author states many characteristics that occour in the spring and fall.

AUDIENCE: Anyone who feelss lonely. Who doesn’t think they belong in thsi world.

PURPOSE: To tell anyone who feels lonely that they are no alone.

SPEAKER: The poet!!!

TONE: Agressive, Depressing.

POETIC DEVICES!!!

The poem uses rhyming for example.

“As others were– I have not been

My passions from a common spring–.”

POEM STRUCTURE!!!

The poem is 1 stanza and has exactly 23 lines.

RYHME SCHEME!!!

The ryhme scheme of the poem was A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D,.