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This lyric poem by Poe was first collected in Tamerlane and Other Poems early in Poe's career in 1827. In the poem, a stargazer thinks all the stars he sees look cold, except for one "Proud Evening Star" which looks warm with a "distant fire" the other stars lack. The poem was influenced by Thomas Moore's poem "While Gazing on the Moon's Light ...
Unlike most of Poe's poems relating to dying women, "Lenore" implies the possibility of meeting in paradise. [1] The poem may have been Poe's way of dealing with the illness of his wife Virginia. The dead woman's name, however, may have been a reference to Poe's recently dead brother, William Henry Leonard Poe. [2]
Poe rushed to complete the story in time and later admitted that the conclusion was imperfect. [6] Shortly after Poe's story " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " was translated into French without acknowledgment, French readers sought out other works by Poe, of which "A Descent into the Maelström" was amongst the earliest translated.
The Alan Parsons Project's album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe) opens with an instrumental homage to the poem also titled "A Dream Within a Dream". Its 1987 re-release included a narration of the original poem by Orson Welles. The Propaganda album A Secret Wish, released in 1985, opens with the track "Dream Within A Dream ...
The album, Poe for Moderns, includes a condensed, jazzy version of "The Raven". The hip hop group Cyne included a track called "The Raven" on their 2009 album Water for Mars. The group paraphrases Poe's famous line in a few cynical lines (e.g. "Nevermore said the raven, goodbye to innocence").
Poe's decision to call Eureka a "prose poem" goes against some of his own "rules" of poetry which he had laid out in "The Philosophy of Composition" and "The Poetic Principle". In particular, Poe had called the ideal poem short, at most 100 lines, and utilizing the "most poetical topic in the world": the death of a beautiful woman. [22]
Poe's story had an influence on, and is referenced in, Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (1865), which can be seen as a retelling of the story. [10] Verne acknowledged Poe as the creator of the "scientific novel" when he referred to him as 'le créateur du roman merveilleux scientifique'.
"The City in the Sea" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The final version was published in 1845, but an earlier version was published as " The Doomed City " in 1831 and, later, as " The City of Sin ". The poem tells the story of a city ruled by a personification of Death using common elements from Gothic fiction .