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Romance
The poem "Romance" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,797 books28.7k followersThe 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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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November 18, 2020
Romance was another little poem from Poe that I happily devoured. It’s one of the poems that I find myself enjoying more each time I read through it again, one that didn’t hit all that hard at first but did later. Although not my favourite poem from Poe, it’s a nice quick read.
May 31, 2017
It's a decent poem which is just basically an ode to romance in a personified form. Pretty much, just read it if you're an Edgar Allan Poe fan.
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November 17, 2019
"Romance" by Edgar Allan Poe
".. That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings"
".. That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings"
January 31, 2024
After reading his entire collection including all poetry, if one doesn't have a specific review, then it was simple bland and unmemorable.
May 8, 2024
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I need to be honest with you and say that this one is actually one of the few poems that I found enjoying while reading.
This poem is a nice easy and quick read, which is definitely worth reading. But it is not in the classic Edgar Allan Poe style as you might expect.
However this poem isn’t bad nor good. It’s for the most part a decent poem.
The easiest way to explain this poem is that it basically an ode to romance in a personified form with a little gothic vibe to it.
The writing style is pretty good, but as a die hard Edgar Allan Poe fan I know that he was able to do much better than what he did in this poem.
https://thebookcornerchronicles.com/2...
I need to be honest with you and say that this one is actually one of the few poems that I found enjoying while reading.
This poem is a nice easy and quick read, which is definitely worth reading. But it is not in the classic Edgar Allan Poe style as you might expect.
However this poem isn’t bad nor good. It’s for the most part a decent poem.
The easiest way to explain this poem is that it basically an ode to romance in a personified form with a little gothic vibe to it.
The writing style is pretty good, but as a die hard Edgar Allan Poe fan I know that he was able to do much better than what he did in this poem.
September 16, 2020
There are two versions of this poem, the 1829 untitled original which was an introduction to his 2nd collection of poems "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane... ", and a later abridged version. The original version is rated.
January 13, 2021
Did you start reading the poem?
I finished it.
What what happened?
You blinked
And?
You missed it.
Oh - was it any good.
It was fine, we can read it again if you want.
Sure let's do that.
I finished it.
What what happened?
You blinked
And?
You missed it.
Oh - was it any good.
It was fine, we can read it again if you want.
Sure let's do that.
July 26, 2022
thought of achilles and patroclus while reading. cried. 10/10.
April 30, 2025
I cannot read romance poems without thinking of Emily Dickinson. Great piece.
October 13, 2019
"Romance"
By Edgar Allan Poe
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been- a most familiar bird-
Taught me my alphabet to say-
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child- with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings-
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings. "
By Edgar Allan Poe
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been- a most familiar bird-
Taught me my alphabet to say-
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child- with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
And when an hour with calmer wings
Its down upon my spirit flings-
That little time with lyre and rhyme
To while away- forbidden things!
My heart would feel to be a crime
Unless it trembled with the strings. "
May 22, 2024
"I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky."
Twenty-one lines divided in two stanzas, romance "seen" as two different birds, a parakeet and a condor. Interesting and promising, as Poe looked to be quite hopeful, even if somehow afraid of the future. The reality was even tougher with our gentleman...
Romance was published for the first time in al Aaraaf, Tamerlaine and Minor Poems, Baltimore, 1829.
Through gazing on the unquiet sky."
Twenty-one lines divided in two stanzas, romance "seen" as two different birds, a parakeet and a condor. Interesting and promising, as Poe looked to be quite hopeful, even if somehow afraid of the future. The reality was even tougher with our gentleman...
Romance was published for the first time in al Aaraaf, Tamerlaine and Minor Poems, Baltimore, 1829.
August 6, 2016
I get what Poe is trying to say, but there's no death, love and loss involved so it's not reaching me.
I believe Poe contemplates the contrast between the world as perceived in his childhood to the world as viewed "of late"-in his adulthood. Being an adult means undergoing a series of wear and tear and so life isn't as romantic and an adult's imagination isn't as colorful as a child's.
I believe Poe contemplates the contrast between the world as perceived in his childhood to the world as viewed "of late"-in his adulthood. Being an adult means undergoing a series of wear and tear and so life isn't as romantic and an adult's imagination isn't as colorful as a child's.
February 12, 2020
I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:
"We flatter our eyes--
Young, and never thinking how
Harried we'll become."
"We flatter our eyes--
Young, and never thinking how
Harried we'll become."
May 30, 2025
not bad but just didnt care for it much
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