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Essay on Alone by Edgar Allan
What is meant by being alone? Some would describe being alone in a figurative manner, such as being with other people but feeling alone inside. While others would give being alone a literal definition, such as actually being isolated from other humans. In the poem "Alone," Edgar Allan Poe talks about being alone in terms of not being able to experience things as others do. Poe presents gothic images of a person who feels alone in this world.
This is a young Poe looking back even farther to a visionary moment when his poetic identity came to him while observing nature. The moment is allowed to speak in its pre-verbal power by the last panoramic sweep to the lone cloud marring the blue sky. The "demon in my view" is nearly a Muse, the daemon meant not as a devil, but as a neutral spirit or force of nature.
It seems to represent Poe himself symbolically but it is led up to as a uniquely personal vision "have not seen as others saw". The poem was originally untitled but the power of them and the pronouncement in breathless isolation midway in the poem makes "Alone" fitting. Poe does not hide so much as make us feel the pure complex emotion through some vagueness and elimination of flowery embellishment.
In fact, this poem removes him from human society, and then passes over spectacular nature without stopping until he hits the stark contrast of the single cloud. In style and content it is a metrical and stark improvement upon Byron in that Poe springboard to his own unique and authentic experience. It was once a doubtful poem because it only existed in a personal album of Lucy Holmes in holograph............
