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The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2 Quotes
The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
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“And thus when by poetyr or wehn by music the most entrancing of the poetic moods we find ourselves melted into tears, we weep then not as the abbate gravina supposes through excess of pleasure but through a certain petulatn impatient sorrow at our inability to grasp no wholly here on earth at once and forever these divein and rapturous joys of which through the poem or through the music we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses.
The struggle to apprehend the supernal loveliness this struggle on the part of souls fittingly constituted has given to the world all that which it (the world) has ever been enabled at once to understand and to feel as peotic
whose distant footsteps echo down the corridors of time
The impression left is one of pleasurable sadness.
This certain taint of sadness is insperably connected with al the higher manifestations of true beauty . It is nevertheless.
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
The next desideratum was a pretext for the continous use of the one word nevermore.in observing the difficutly which i at once found in inventing a suffiecienly plausible reason for its continuous repetition i did not fail to preceive thta this difficutly arose solely form the pre assumption that the world was to be so continuously or monotonously spoke by a human being i did not fail to perceive in shor t that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word here then immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech and very naturally a parrot in the first instance suggested itself but was superseded forthwith by a raven as equally capable of speech and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone.“I had now gone so far as the conception of a
Raven, the bird of ill-omen, monotonously repeating the one word
"Nevermore" at the conclusion of each stanza in a poem of
melancholy tone, and in length about one hundred lines. Now, never
losing sight of the object _supremeness_ or perfection at all
points, I asked myself--"Of all melancholy topics what, according
to the _universal_ understanding of mankind, is the _most_
melancholy?" Death, was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is
this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have
already explained at some length, the answer here also is
obvious--"When it most closely allies itself to _Beauty_; the
death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most
poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that
the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved
lover.”
― The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
The struggle to apprehend the supernal loveliness this struggle on the part of souls fittingly constituted has given to the world all that which it (the world) has ever been enabled at once to understand and to feel as peotic
whose distant footsteps echo down the corridors of time
The impression left is one of pleasurable sadness.
This certain taint of sadness is insperably connected with al the higher manifestations of true beauty . It is nevertheless.
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
The next desideratum was a pretext for the continous use of the one word nevermore.in observing the difficutly which i at once found in inventing a suffiecienly plausible reason for its continuous repetition i did not fail to preceive thta this difficutly arose solely form the pre assumption that the world was to be so continuously or monotonously spoke by a human being i did not fail to perceive in shor t that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word here then immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech and very naturally a parrot in the first instance suggested itself but was superseded forthwith by a raven as equally capable of speech and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone.“I had now gone so far as the conception of a
Raven, the bird of ill-omen, monotonously repeating the one word
"Nevermore" at the conclusion of each stanza in a poem of
melancholy tone, and in length about one hundred lines. Now, never
losing sight of the object _supremeness_ or perfection at all
points, I asked myself--"Of all melancholy topics what, according
to the _universal_ understanding of mankind, is the _most_
melancholy?" Death, was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is
this most melancholy of topics most poetical?" From what I have
already explained at some length, the answer here also is
obvious--"When it most closely allies itself to _Beauty_; the
death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most
poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that
the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved
lover.”
― The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
“Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And
laugh--but smile no more.”
― The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
laugh--but smile no more.”
― The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2
