State Of Being Alone, By Edgar Allan Poe

Solitude can be considered a positive and constructive state of engagement with oneself. A state of being alone where you provide yourself time that can be used for reflection and sufficient company. It can also mean something devastating where depression and loneliness reeks from the absence of company. For writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, solitude can be an opportunity to renew ourselves or an opportunity to seclude ourselves even more. Hawthorne's social isolation and shyness was the subject of his letter to Longfellow which should be considered his reclusive nature. Seclusion reveals itself in nearly all of his literary works and the reserved mood only makes his writings more objective. To have his own mind being
“Alone" is a reflection of who Edgar Allen Poe is as a person and how he views himself in his own seclusion. From the very first line, he stated that this was the way he is and there is nothing that can change that. "From childhood's hour, I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw…..." This simply states that he was different from the others and at some point he takes this state of being alone as a good thing. Not in total isolation but alone in thought. With constant struggles, failures and a strange fascination with the darkness of nature and the human mind which allowed some relation to his own nature, he uses this to bring out vividness in his work and let find its way throughout. Poe was within himself; meaning that he didn't seek help on anything and tried to find his own way of dealing with it. There are people who because of a lack of security and love in their childhood never find happiness in their adulthood. Unfortunately, he was never able to fit in and found himself in sorrow throughout his childhood. Even in his relationships, his great talent and even his attraction to women, he looked for something totally different. This formed his temperament and personality. Poe in his life had many demons that he suppressed. Sadly his way of handling his problems was with drugs and alcohol. As a child, Edgar Allan Poe went through abandonment and death and then being adopted by a couple. Because of all of these traumatic events, as a result, he becomes isolated and secluded. Poe writes, "all I lov’d—I lov’d alone.” here he is highlighting his uniqueness, and saying that this is what made him feel left out. Obviously, Poe was already unhappy, unable to understand why he was so miserable, and longing to find a place or person who could help him find why he was the way he was. Maybe