Alone By Edgar Allan Poe Analysis

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Edgar Allan Poe is known for his mysterious and sometimes freaky, poetry, short stories, and even his own life. Here is a little bit about one of his poetry works called ‘Alone’. The poem ‘Alone’ by Edgar Allan Poe is about the aftermath of loneliness and reveals that being alone as a child growing up can lead you to a “stormy life” through both good and bad influences. He uses some poetic devices like anaphora, metaphors, and alliteration to help express this theme.
Anaphora is repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Edgar Allan Poe used this method throughout almost all of the poem to help shape his theme. For an example, he starts off a couple times by saying “As others” or “From the”. He uses and repeats these

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