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National Poetry Month: Edgar Allan Poe, Anyone?

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Is it a coincidence that I decided to include the unit on poetry in April, National Poetry Month? Maybe. Subconsciously I might have been drawn to the idea of incorporating some poetry towards the end of this our last school year. Poetry brings out sentimental feelings so it might be appropriate.

At the top of my favorite poets list is Edgar Allan Poe.  His poetry has always moved me because of its haunting themes. His life was shrouded in mystery which factors in to his attraction by many, myself included. What about you? How do you feel about this poet and his work?

Here’s my poem inspired by this moody poet: Episode 101 on ALC: National Poetry Month

And here’s the poem by the man himself:

A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Does it inspire you to write a poem of your own? I hope so! ~~LMMolina