Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe

The famous short poem Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Gothic, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Literature

1 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 17, 1829

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[فايز غازي Fayez Ghazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Uniqueness and isolation from a dark perspective.
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"And all I loved, I loved alone."

[toointofiction · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my Edgar Allan Poe era 🤘🤘

[Ivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

OK I have no poetry shelf since this is first one I read since high-school.

[Dunya Al-bouzidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

"And all I loved, I loved alone."

[Zihad Al Faruqe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Melancholic

Edgar Allan Poe's dismal poem "Alone" speaks to loneliness and detachment. It is composed in a haunting manner that stirs up a feeling of misery and desolation. It reinforces the narrator's sense of isolation, conveys an attitude of acceptance and inevitability.

"And all I loved, I loved alone."

[Diamond Cowboy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very sad but well constructed poem about a life alone.

[Mia · Rating 4 out of 5]

«And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone»

[ke-sha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down one of my Favorite poems & one I connected with right away.

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.

The first few line just grabbed me right away and Always will.

[Marisol Vazquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you don't love Poe, I have no idea what you are doing with your life.

[Bettie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listen here

[Salem ☥ · Rating 5 out of 5]

"And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --"

what can even be said about this poem. it's heart- wrenching.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Boy! You really can feel Poe's depth of sadness in the lines of this poem. This 22-line poem was composed in 1829 and left untitled and unpublished during Poe’s lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Francis Allan had died.

[K.T. ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

"And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone"

[Nicole]

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[Mikyla Reeck · Rating 3 out of 5]

Personal Response
I think reading this short poem changed my perspective on poems. I never really liked reading poems but reading this was different. He has great ideas to write about and they are all different.
Summary
In this he makes it seem kind of like a mystery. Where does he get his ideas from? How did he make this poem up? Why did he write this poem? When did he think of his poems? How does he make everything go together with them? What did he refer to in this poem?o
Recommendation
I think many people should read this poem. It was pretty new to me and made me want to read more of his peoms. If people read this they could think more poems are cool and read more of them.

[Iris · Rating 5 out of 5]

"And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone"

So beautiful♥

[Joseph Birkett · Rating 4 out of 5]

tells us how edgar felt alone throughout his childhood and how he still feels this way. poe reflects on his life experienced from an emotional outsider. everything went on around edgar allen poe while he stayed there, by himself. therefore making it romanticism as he is emphasising the emotion of loneliness

[Ian D · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

Ο θείος Edgar που γνώρισε και τραγούδησε τη μοναξιά καλύτερα από όλους.

[Siobhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alone is a short but powerful poem from Poe. Although I enjoyed this one, I would not label it one of my favourites. Many do, however, and it is easy to see why. It’s a quick read, but it packs a punch. It also has lines in it that hit hard, and I imagine that is why many consider it a favourite. If nothing else, it’s worth reading to see what you think.

[Afra · Rating 5 out of 5]

"And all i loved..i loved alone.."
It's a masterpiece....

[꧁ ༺Minne༻ ꧂ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just wonder, what kind of man was Poe? What kind of life did he live?And what thoughts did he harbour??

"From childhood 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-"

This poem is so simple, and yet it beguiles my mind.

"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-"

The mystery...The mystery....

"And the cloud that took the form
(when the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view-"

I get that "demon" implies something ugly and haunting, but why does Poe endeavour to state that "the rest of Heaven was blue."
Beauty amidst the darkness???

[K. Anna Kraft · Rating 4 out of 5]

This came out a lot more flowery in the final draft than anything I attempted in the first dozen or so, but I have arranged my takeaway thoughts for this short poem into a haiku:

"It shapes one's whole life
Realizing they're a lily
In a rose garden."

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Edgar Allen Poe was such a dark and distressed soul. He always seemed so depressed and broken to me as a child reading his works. Now that I am older I understand that he faced serious demons that were not acknowledged until later years. Alcoholism, depression, maybe even a little schizophrenia.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourites by Poe, that had me from the first line.

[Sarah Sabry · Rating 3 out of 5]

And all I loved, I loved alone.

[Simone]

Read for school so no rating

[Angel Torres · Rating 3 out of 5]

A well written lovely poem.

[Debbie Reads]

Wow!! The imagry in this is stunning!!!

I think this is the first Edgar Allan Poe work I've read which is CRAZY as an English Major.

[malik · Rating 5 out of 5]

never related to something more so true king

[Corvina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Never read a more nuanced poem on loneliness before this.