Alone - Edgar Allan Poe (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

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'Alone' -an Edgar Allan Poe poem (read by Tom O'Bedlam) explores themes like loneliness, dissociation, isolation, sorrow and anxiety that the author must have experienced in his lifetime. He writes in the poem that his isolation and loneliness which is a result of an intensive imaginative mind is a curse and also a blessing.

Poem: Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov’d — I lov’d alone —
Then — in my childhood — in the dawn
Of a most stormy life — was drawn
From ev’ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still —
From the torrent, or the fountain —
From the red cliff of the mountain —
From the sun that ‘round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold —
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by —
From the thunder, and the storm —
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view —

[CAB]

I have always loved Edgar Allan Poe. For Halloween last year I made him a gravestone for my front yard. It had a raven perched on top and a black rose attached to the left side. For his epitaph I used “Leave My Loneliness Unbroken”.

[J.FellowsPoetry]

A really lovely poem, words many share, beautiful

[Winter-kp]

Fabulous poem
❤ Edgar was a wonderful poet
His poems are haunting
This is read beautifully

[derekstynes]

I had not heard this in many years and it is warmly welcome like a long lost friend .

[ADHD-fourty-tude]

Wonderful, thank you for creating this video and sharing EAP's poem! ❤