Edgar Allan PoeDream-Land

Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. After his mother’s death, in 1811 he was

adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan. Went to the University of Virginia in 1826. In 1827 , went to Boston and joined the U.S.

Army. In 1831, went to New York City where he had

some of his poetry published. In 1836, married to Virginia. Worked as an editor for Southern Literary

Messenger (1835), Graham's Magazine (1840), The Broadway Journal (1845)

In 1847, Poe lost his wife, Virginia. He died in the hospital, in Philadelphia , on

Sunday, October 7, 1849, either of congestion of the brain or rabies.

Essay" The Philosophy of Composition"(1846). Poems" The Raven"(1845), " Ulalume"(1847), " The Bells" (1849), "

Eldorado"(1849), " Annabell Lee"(1849) & so on. Tales of terror" The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), " The Masque of the Red

Death"(1842), " The Pit and the Pendulum"(1842), " The Premature Burial" (1844) & so on.

Adventure story (science fiction) " The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal" (1835) Detective stories" The Murders in the Rue Morgue"(1841), " The Mystery of Marie Roget"

(1842), " The Purloined Letter"(1844) & so on.

The Most Famous Works

Background of poem Meaning of titleSpeaker’s Point of View

By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule—From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE— out of TIME.

Bottomless vales and boundless floods,And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, With forms that no man can discoverFor the tears that drip all over;Mountains toppling evermoreInto seas without a shore;Seas that restlessly aspire, Surging, unto skies of fire;Lakes that endlessly outspreadTheir lone waters— lone and dead,—Their still waters— still and chillyWith the snows of the lolling lily.

By the lakes that thus outspreadTheir lone waters, lone and dead,—Their sad waters, sad and chillyWith the snows of the lolling lily,—By the mountains— near the river Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,—By the grey woods,— by the swampWhere the toad and the newt encamp—By the dismal tarns and pools

Where dwell the Ghouls,— By each spot the most unholy—In each nook most melancholy—There the traveller meets aghastSheeted Memories of the Past—Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by—White—robed forms of friends long given,In agony, to the Earth— and Heaven.

For the heart whose woes are legion'Tis a peaceful, soothing region— For the spirit that walks in shadow'Tis— oh, 'tis an Eldorado!But the traveler, travelling through it,May not— dare not openly view it!Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed;So wills its King, who hath forbidThe uplifting of the fringed lid;And thus the sad Soul that here passesBeholds it but through darkened glasses.

By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have wandered home but newly From this ultimate dim Thule.

• Ultima Thule (line 6): In ancient times, this referred to the most northern part of the world. Ultima means "farthest" in Latin. "Thule" was the name for an island in the North, maybe the place we call Iceland now. So Ultima Thule meant beyond Thule, at the edge of the world. Over time, people started to use it to refer to any mysterious and far-off destination. For Poe, then, it means a place that's unimaginably far away.

• Eldorado (line 42): This is a mythical city of gold. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro went looking for this city in 1541.

Literary and Philosophical References

By a route obscure and lonely, A Haunted by ill angels only, A Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, BOn a black throne reigns upright, BI have reached these lands but newly, CFrom an ultimate dim Thule, C

Rhyme Scheme

Bottomless vales and boundless floods, [flʌd] And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, [wud]

Near Rhyme

By a | route ob|scure and | lonely Haunted | by ill | angels | only

Meter – Trochaic Tetrameter

• Theme of The Supernatural• Theme of Sadness• Theme of Man and the Natural World• Theme of Isolation

Themes

Dark Angels (Line 2) Tears (Line 12) Mountains (Line 13) Lakes (Line 17, 23) Ghouls (Line 30) Sheeted Memories (Line 34) Eldorado (Line 42) The Eidolon (Line 53)

Symbols

Aytekin AliyevaPrepared by:

27.04.2011