The Lake. To -- Analysis

Author: Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Type: Poetry Views: 1569

In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less-
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody-
Then- ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight-
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define-
Nor Love- although the Love were thine.

Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining-
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.

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I'm probably way off but to me it's about not feeling like you fit in anywhere. I remember in my youth, feeling like I would find someplace on earth where I truly belonged but now I know that place doesn't exist cuz I'm wierd. Now I wish for solitude among a paradise(the lake) all my own where I don't have to worry about others hurting me or how they see me or if they'll ever except me. To be a genius is to be lonely, I think it made Poe an extreme introvert who longed for complete solitude and/or death. That's my view anyway.

| Posted on 2009-08-29 | by a guest

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I'm probably way off but to me it's about not feeling like you fit in anywhere. I remember in my youth, feeling like I would find someplace on earth where I truly belonged but now I know that place doesn't exist cuz I'm wierd. Now I wish for solitude among a paradise(the lake) all my own where I don't have to worry about others hurting me or how they see me or if they'll ever except me. To be a genius is to be lonely, I think it made Poe an extreme introvert who longed for complete solitude. That's my view anyway.

| Posted on 2009-08-29 | by a guest

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