Edgar Allan Poe Isolation

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In our childhood we all feel a sense of isolation as the result from school standards and expectations. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem All Alone, he uses a wide range of writing aspects to express his feelings toward his childhood. Edgar Allan Poe conveys a strong expression of isolation in his poem by stressing imagery and diction.
The sense of islotaion is present because of Edgar Allan Poe’s variety of examples where he has experienced such loathing. The second half of the poem illistrates examples where he has seen the demon, refering to his sense of isolation, in every moment. As a result he has an odsessive thought that the demon is latched on to him,”From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by—From the thunder, and the storm—And …show more content…

Edgar Allan POe keeps the poem constistant as the poem progresses by composing each stanzia to be eight syllabals. In addition, he expresses his solitude in different perspectives of the poem. In the first 13 stanzias, he focuses on his attitude toward is seclustion while the last lines descride Alone. For example, at the beginning of poem he protrays himself as a praiah because he was unable to shard his passisons with the other children. He depicts this by stating, “I could not bring My passions from a common spring—From the same source I have not taken My sorrow- I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone,” the phrase common spring is in relationship to the gatherment of others ideas. This quote also relays the information that he was unable to feeling the sence of joy many other people felt because he did not share the same passions. As a result he was forced into isolation because of his lack of an interaction with someone who shared his same intrests. In contrast, his final lines illistrates what isolation feels like, “From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d 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—.” In this circumstance his was unacle to experiance the joy many would undergo when they admire a beatiful, whereas, Edgar Allan Poe only saw the negative ascpects of the cloud. By using the line

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