Edgar Allan Poe Alone

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Being alone is a nightmare or a happy place, depending on your point of view. For Henry Beamis, it is a happy place, for the speaker of the poem by Poe is good and bad at the same time and the speaker of the poem by Maya Angelou is a nightmare. There are three different point of views these poems and story share, that is the same subject: being alone yet each one feels completely different. Henry Beamis desires to be alone because he prefers to read rather than socialize, also he does not like his boss or his wife. Others see him as a weird person because they do not understand his passion for reading. Sadly reading is one those hobbies that he would rather do alone. Reading is his escape from all the things he dislikes. Unlike the characters in the poems by Poe and Angeloue, Henry does not see any negative side to being alone. However, he has a different situation than the other characters because he does not like his environment, so he has a “reason” to feel that way being alone. …show more content…

Therefore, he prefers to be alone because he feels like he does not fit anywhere. He feels bad about being alone because he knowns that company is part of being happiness, but because he has always being alone he does not know how to escape that feeling of preference for being alone. The part of the poem that makes me feel this way is the line that says “of a demon in my view” (Poe, 22) that emphasizes how lonely he has been all his life.This is a point of view that is between the others two characters in this essay. Because the speaker of the poem “Alone” likes to be alone but he knows that he could enjoy life more around people, unlike for example Henry Beamis who thinks happiness is

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