Alone By Edgar Allen Poe

The title of the poem is "Alone" and it has a literal meaning behind it, to have no one or anything beside you. The tone in which is expressed throughout this poem consist of sorrow, sadness, loneliness, and darkness. In order to help create such a tone Poe uses words like alone, sorrow, stormy, thunder, and demon to put the tone in place. The poem’s beginning with a description of the speaker’s past then predicts coming present. Throughout is becomes clear that the persona of the speaker in the poem is dark and depressed which gives a clear meaning to the poem and the idea of being alone. The persona has hidden voice when they talk about all the things that they have experience, darkness. For example, the words such as sorrow and torrent help to convey his dark feelings. The theme of
As the poem goes on, we can see that this poem has a first person point of view. Edgar Allen Poe wrote this poem based on his own experience from childhood. We can see Edgar had different views on the world than other children. Poe seems as if he feels that he was not common, different than the normal children. He was always alone, even when he is surrounded by other people. Edgar Poe recognized his own uniqueness even as a child, he saw things differently and the same things that made others happy did not make him happy. So the things that Poe, the speaker liked, “And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone,” (Poe, 65) because there was no one to share his same interests and the love he had for them. "I could not bring, My passions from a common spring," (Poe, 65) is a figure out speech that the speaker uses to give the reader an understanding that he couldn't bring forth his own joys like the other children