He was an unique talent, that's for sure. Poe's writing is filled with both emotion and intelligence. His best works remain timeless. Jan 01, Amanda rated it it was ok Shelves: short-story-compilation. It seems strange to me that despite being famous for his short stories and detective fiction, that Poe always considered himself a poet.
Spirits of the Dead is a collection of such poetry, along with some of Poe's lesser known short stories. Poe's deservedly famous The Raven, The Conqueror Worm and several renderings of Lenore are present, but the rest of the works seem to be characterised by a tedious profusion of obscure references and a deliberatly over bizarre and alienating manner.
An odd, It seems strange to me that despite being famous for his short stories and detective fiction, that Poe always considered himself a poet. An odd, rambling collection that is a chore to get through and not recommended for those new to Poe. Sep 16, M. This is a review just for the poem 'Spirits of the Dead' as this page is the only entry for the poem by the author instead of the collection, just to be clear. It's a nice poem, and Poe makes good use of rhyming. Poetry itself can be pretty difficult to write, and when you add the constraint of rhyme to the formula, it can be tricky to find the right words, but Poe makes good use of it in this poem about a freshly-dead spirit.
Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness- for then The spirits of the dead, who stood In life before thee, are again In death around thee, and their will Shall overshadow thee; be still. The night, though clear, shall frown, And the stars shall not look down From their high thrones in the Heaven With light like hope to mor "Spirits of the Dead" By Edgar Allan Poe "Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone; Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy.
The night, though clear, shall frown, And the stars shall not look down From their high thrones in the Heaven With light like hope to mortals given, But their red orbs, without beam, To thy weariness shall seem As a burning and a fever Which would cling to thee for ever.
Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish, Now are visions ne'er to vanish; From thy spirit shall they pass No more, like dew-drop from the grass. The breeze, the breath of God, is still, And the mist upon the hill Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken, Is a symbol and a token. How it hangs upon the trees, A mystery of mysteries! Sep 28, Ivana rated it it was amazing. Poe is ever fascinating, even when his writing seems unfinshed, even when there is something of his genious missing as is it at times in this book.
However, Poe's is always a treat to read. Unlike some other famous authors, Poe's less known stuff does not deserve to be less known. Nov 02, Jennifer B. Like most, I only knew Poe for his poems and creepy short stories. I had never seen his ironic, satirical side. I read this book to get into the creepy spirit of Halloween. There weren't many creepy tales in it, but it was interesting.
Aug 30, Bec added it. I've read very little of Edgar Allan Poe so far, but I've read the poem "The Valley of Unrest" and how he links death with the life surrounding the grave, is beautiful. Once again, I can't explain clearly what fascinates me, but like Wilde once said: "Art is not morbid. Art can express everything" - Literature, a form of art, in which death can be expressed, and Poe does it brilliantly.
This is the book with my favorite poem in it: The Sleeper. The typing is type-writer-like and the thickness of the letters changes all the time, but it's not about the layout - but the content. And it has some pretty cool poems and short stories in it.
A fear - inducing imagery of life after death. May 30, John Yelverton rated it it was ok. I'm not really sure why this poem is called "Spirits of the Dead", because it certainly does not overtly seem to be what the poem is about.
Somehow I always have some difficulty to read older books because of the language. I did enjoy many of them, the Raven is one of my all time favourites especially the way Omnia turned it into a song and others such as A Dream, Spirits of the Dead, and A Dream Within a Dream did speak to me.
I enjoyed some stories such as The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, How to Write a Blackwood Article and the subsequent Predicament and X-ing a Paragraph got a good chuckle out of me, but for the rest I was too exhausted to finish. So I guess this is a dnf for me, after trying really hard, but the use of language is lost on me.
My copy is a paperback with many folds from being abused and thrown in a bag, and many dog-ears to mark my favourite poems. This collection perfectly balances the poetry and the short stories. It took me a while to get into EAP's tales, as I felt that they didn't deliver the sense of foreboding and melancholy that his poetry does. I can safely say this: I was wrong.
I really want a sea themed sleeve some time in my life inspired by the latter poem. And even more unsettling that it was my favourite. Dec 29, John Defrog of the Antarctic rated it it was ok. Which is okay at times, but Poe tends to go for the kind of satire that you need degrees in Classic Greek Literature and World History to get the joke. I can only give this selection roughly 2. Sure, it's still Poe and you'll find some of his classic poems there, but the rest is pretty boring.
The tales in the end of this book made want to put it away as soon as possible. There are better Poe collections out there, sorry Penguin. I wasn't impressed with the tales that much. However, I loved the poems a lot.
These blurbs on the poems by Poe always start with the famous poem - really - well anyway this was a decent poem. I love the recorded length here as well - oh well!
Another good Poe. The Haunted Palace In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!
Wanderers in that happy val The Haunted Palace In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head.
Materials for Teachers Teach This Poem. Poems for Kids. Poetry for Teens. Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. Academy of American Poets. American Poets Magazine. Poems Find and share the perfect poems. Spirits of the Dead. This poem is in the public domain. To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece. And the grandeur that was Rome. The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche from the regions which Are Holy Land! Edgar Allan Poe The third stanza shows the anger. In the Fourth stanza, it goes back to sadness, yet nothing change only thoughts and visions of the past life.
The last stanza is showing the difference between live and death, and that all of us will go through that one day. The poem is about a lost soul or spirits of dead. As though his wife was an important role in his life, and this unfortunately accident, affected him so deeply that after he wrote many poems about dead.
He started to imagine how his wife will be after becoming a soul, but also included some of his feeling. Basically,this poem has two point of view, one as a mourners himself , and the other as a perspective of the departed his wife.
The poem can also represent the dialogue between Virginia and Poe himself as well. In fact, the tone of the poem starts from sadness to anger, and finally to resignation. During that was a depressing period for the poet. Since, he lost most people that he care for example, his parents, step-parents, then his lover. Hence, he was also angry, he thinks that life wasn't fair, because he lost people around him. But then after he got used to it, so he obeyed his destiny.
Overall, the poet expressed his feeling toward his wife's death through the poem. This poem is typed as free verse.
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