Status Updates From The Philosophy of Composition

can't believe Poe wrote an essay trying to teach his poetic composition... with the Raven as an example. too cool.

"The former is trochaic - the latter is octametre acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic."

my head just exploded.

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the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world,

Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Here, then, immediately arose the idea of a non-reasoning creature capable of speech, and very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone.

Despite his success as a writer, he lived in poverty. He suffered from alcoholism, depression, and possibly diabetes. In 1836 Poe married his cousin Virginia Clemm, and they remained together until her death from tuberculosis in 1847. After giving lectures in Norfolk and Richmond, Poe died in a Baltimore hospital in 1849; the cause of his death is not known.

Ravendan bir şeyler bulmak. Çoğu kişinin hoşuna gitmese de ben çok heyecanlı devam ediyorum...