Sonnet - To Science Analysis

Author: Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Type: Poetry Views: 2135

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

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poe is lamenting that imagination and creativeness is not permissible by scientists they only kill the nymphs with the gun of "logic" and materialize the world more and more..

| Posted on 2009-10-23 | by a guest

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I think Poe was purging his frustration with the way science changed literature. The sonnet served as a catharsis, and afterwards, he was more comfortable writing superstitious stories that are peppered with facts.

| Posted on 2009-10-21 | by a guest

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I think he is asking why he himself loves science so much when it lacks imagination and pulls apart classic literature.

| Posted on 2009-05-12 | by a guest

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My analysis is that Poe viewed science and a bad and negative thing and it erased how people thought all their lives before Science

| Posted on 2008-11-12 | by a guest

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I'd have to say that Edgar is saying here that Science is a creature that pulls apart myths..It's saying it is killing the old myths of the sea nymphs(Naiad), and the wood nymphs(Hamadryad) that poet's so much relied on in their writing(allusions)

| Posted on 2007-11-11 | by a guest

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