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Poe's Alone

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Sorrow and Mystery: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Alone”
Edgar Allen Poe often wrote of the gloomy adolescence he lived and all throughout his adulthood. He especially brings out the true sorrow of his early years, which aided in transpiring misery as he matured, in the poem Alone. The poem is pure beauty and is a simple yet direct view of Poe’s hardships; it definitely resonates powerfully with someone who can relate to the way Poe expressed his emotions through the use of the literary elements. Through tone and voice, figurative language and imagery, and style and diction Edgar Allan Poe has created a strong, important lyrical verse impossible to be thought of as less than it actually is. The first four lines of the poem express
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