Alone

The poem Alone, by Edgar Allan Poe, is exactly what we all expect from Poe― sad. One of the first things I noticed when reading the poem was the rhyme of the last word in every two lines. It is a pretty interesting structure to the poem, and it is kind of strange but it makes the poem seem a bit matter-of-fact? So, obviously the poem is about being alone. The reason for him being alone is said in the first line, “Form childhood’s hour I have not been as others were.” So, he was always a different from the other kids when he was a kid. Next he said, “I have not seen as others saw,” and that makes me think that he had unusual things happen as a child that a normal child would not have seen, and for that he was maybe more mature than the other kids, making him be alone. It seems that no matter what he did he could not find joy in others, “I could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone― And all i lov’d―I loved alone―” The last two lines really sum everything up, “(When the rest of Heaven was blue) of a demon in my view―” From that it makes me think that it doesn’t bother him that he is alone, and that it is something he has learned to deal with. When everyone had happy images like heaven he always had those different and unhappy dark images like demons. At the end of the day, the poem is seen sad to someone like me, but to someone like him it seems like something he has just learned to deal with and it doesn’t faze him anymore which is even more sad.