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Poe Returning to Boston is a statue of American author Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Massachusetts. It was created by the American sculptor Stefanie Rocknak. [1] The statue is located at the corner of Boylston and Charles streets at Edgar Allan Poe Square. [2] The statue depicts Poe walking, facing away from the Boston Common.
Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.
A devotional statue of Virgin Mary under the title of Rosa Mystica. A devotional image enshrined at the Maria Rosenberg Church in Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Germany, holds an 1138 painting of Mary, featuring roses. John Henry Newman said, Mary is the most beautiful flower ever seen in the spiritual world.
The full text of The Imp of the Perverse at Wikisource; Media related to The Imp of the Perverse at Wikimedia Commons; Publication history of "The Imp of the Perverse" at the Edgar Allan Poe Society Online; Study guide from Cummings Study Guides; The Imp of the Perverse public domain audiobook at LibriVox
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head" is an attack on transcendentalism, which the narrator calls a "disease" afflicting Toby Dammit.The narrator, in fact, sends the bill for Dammit's funeral expenses to the transcendentalists, who refuse to pay because of their disbelief in evil. [2]
"Tamerlane" is the Latinized name of a 14th-century historical figure.. The main themes of "Tamerlane" are independence and pride [3] as well as loss and exile. [4] Poe may have written the poem based on his own loss of his early love, Sarah Elmira Royster, [5] his birth mother Eliza Poe, or his foster-mother Frances Allan. [4]
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
Poe also refers to Helen as Psyche, a beautiful princess who became the lover of Cupid. Psyche represented the soul to ancient Greeks, and Poe is comparing Helen to the very soul of "regions which are Holy Land" meaning the soul of Greece from which so much of our ideals of beauty, democracy and learning sprang forth.