Summer Reading POetry by Leia Rowe https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s en-us 2023-09-13 01:32:35 UTC 2023-09-13 03:01:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Edgar Allen Poe leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2700940467 Edgar Allen Poe was a 17th century american poet. Born in 1809 in Boston, he became one of the most famous poets of his time and has remained so well after his death in 1849. I chose Edgar Allen Poe because when I was younger I had read some of his poetry and really enjoyed it. However, recalling this poetry, I believe I was too young to truly grasp his messages within his poems - I didn't fully understand. I chose to revist his poetry, to see if it still holds the same wonder I felt as a child and if now I'll be able to fully understand the messages behind them. ]]> 2023-09-13 01:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2700940467 Poem: To my mother leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2700953793 Relevant lines: 
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother,”

The poem discusses the devotion of a mother, how she gives all her love and gives up so much for her children. The image depicts a mother giving her all to her children, while clearly struggling herself.
]]> 2023-09-13 01:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2700953793 Poem: The Raven leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701003798 While some may argue the poem The Raven has the intended audience of those who are suffering with grief and understanding the permanence of death, I believe the poems' intended audience may be that of the author himself. Most of Edgar Allen Poe's poetry talks about dark themes of grief and death, but the conversation with the Raven is with none other than the narrator himself. He continues to try to draw answers from the Raven, while the Raven on repeats a single word: "Nevermore." The raven is symbol of the permanence of death, and the narrator is stuck in a circle of conversing with Raven who cannot speak back, signifying the entrapping circle of grief that provides no closure. This fact - that grief has no closure - seems to be the message the author is continuously trying to teach himself. I think Poe wrote this poem to make sense of the grief he was feeling - perhaps in an attempt the get closure from it - but ended up with that singular message over and over. While I think many may be able to relate to the poem, the Raven signifies Poe's personal emotional turmoil, and I believe he wrote this poem for no one other than himself. ]]> 2023-09-13 02:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701003798 Poem: Annabel Lee leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701026606 Line: But we loved with a love that was more than love—
   I and my Annabel Lee— 

I find this line extremely powerful because I feel it conveys the true feelings of being in love. It puts into words the feeling of "I've never felt this way before," a feeling so big and powerful you don't know what to do with it. When describing you feelings about the person your in love with, sometimes saying "I love you" doesn't truly convey the emotions and vastness of the way you feel towards this person. "We loved with a love that was more than love" creates the image of loving someone so much the word "love" is simply insufficient. In so few words, it describes one of the most powerful feelings in the world, which is why it is such a powerful line.
]]> 2023-09-13 02:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701026606 Poem: The City in the Sea leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701065001 The city in the sea is a poem that details a once robust city that has been taken under by the sea, referring to the place as a certain kind of hell, out of reach from Heaven's light. The speaker is alluding to the fact that even the greatest of creations, or in this case cities, last forever, nad that time is a cruel thing. The speaker sound nearly defeated throughout the poem, seemingly like they believe there is no other end then darkness and to be forgotten. The speaker seems to feel doomed almost, and hopeless. Even towards the end of the poem, when the previously described stillness is disturbed and the waves gain a red glow, the speaker then says that it is just merely hell here to do the city reverence. This reference stays on track with the dark theme of the poem, and the speaker seems to imply that the only hope applicable to time is false hope, one that will do one no good. The speaker is seemingly, in their eyes, doomed to eternal damnation. ]]> 2023-09-13 02:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701065001 Poem: A Dream within a Dream leiar241 https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701076516 This poem hints at the speaker questions his reality and one's inability to live in the past. The title a dream within a dream hints to the dissociation the speaker feels throughout this poem, for a dream is to real, to tangible to for the speaker. The title refers to something further from reality from a dream, something intangible and unrealistic. The title creates a sense of uncertainty and the intangible-ness of the speakers feelings towards time and the current moment. ]]> 2023-09-13 03:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/leiar241/1l03035h8sbb4w8s/wish/2701076516