"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe
From childhoodâs hour I have not beenÂ
As others wereâI have not seenÂ
As others sawâI could not bringÂ
My passions from a common springâÂ
From the same source I have not takenÂ
My sorrowâI could not awakenÂ
My heart to joy at the same toneâÂ
And all I lovâdâI lovâd aloneâÂ
Thenâin my childhoodâin the dawnÂ
Of a most stormy lifeâwas drawnÂ
From evâry depth of good and illÂ
The mystery which binds me stillâÂ
From the torrent, or the fountainâÂ
From the red cliff of the mountainâÂ
From the sun that âround me rollâdÂ
In its autumn tint of goldâÂ
From the lightning in the skyÂ
As it passâd me flying byâÂ
From the thunder, and the stormâÂ
And the cloud that took the formÂ
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Â
Of a demon in my view.
Okay so there's a story behind why I'm posting this. Junior year my English teacher gave us each poets to write about. The assignment was to recite a poem and explain why you can relate to it, and basically give your interpretation. The poet I got was Edgar Allan Poe and I couldn't think of a poem to use, there's so many of his poems that are nothing short of beautiful.
So the teacher, Mrs. Parker, told me to look at this one because she felt I would be able to give a good meaning to the poem as well as I would probably relate to it a lot more than any of Poe's other works. Needless to say, she was right. I read the poem and fell in love. It's really weird to some people how poetry could have such a big part of my life because I'm not really one to talk about it, but nonetheless I love it.