To One In Paradise By Edgar Allan Poe

The impactful emotions of macabre, sorrow, and sombre are all significantly illustrated throughout various poems by Edgar Allan Poe. The morose poem,“To One in Paradise” vividly illustrates the narrator’s reaction to death of a loved one. Poe’s poem, “To One in Paradise”, utilizes various comparisons to exemplify and emphasize the narrators infinite yet obsessive love for his deceased wife, illustrations of a hollow, isolated life, and repeating word and stanza structure that reveal his relentless grief.
Yearning for his lost wife, Poe’s vivid and emotional use of metaphors in lines 1-6 emphasize the narrator’s obsessive love for her. Comparing his wife to a “green isle” and “fountain” illustrates that she was grand and highly significant in his life. The narrator's purpose for living was exhibited in his wife and lover. This comparison also emphasizes her delicate purity yet impactful significance. Hopelessly attached, he compares his wife to “flowers” which he obtained and still longs for.
Comparing his past to a “dim gulf” emphasizes that the narrator, although feeling the need to move on, stands “motionless” having lost all hope in his somber past. Use of the words “eternal streams” in the last line exemplifies the narrator’s relentless cycle of futile days due to the lack of his wife. Utilization of these mournful words stresses his emptiness. The author compares his days to “trances” which exemplifies that his days are isolated, long and meaningless. Repetition of the word “all” emphasizes that the days are infinite, remaining the exact same day after day. Although he yearns for this love once more, it is merely a “grey eye” peering at him in the distance that he cannot attain. The repetitive idea and tone of emptiness exemplify that he lives an isolated, hollow life while lacking his