The Poem Alone By Edgar Allan Poe

The poem “Alone” written by Poe expresses how he felt as a child. It is a direct view of his life and the hardships he was confronted with from the beginning of his life. His struggles shaped him into the person he was. From the beginning of the poem, “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" (Marshell), Poe expresses that even as a child, he felt different than others and thought in a more negative way in comparison to how someone else would perceive a situation. The darkness from his childhood shaped him. Because he experienced loss and rejection of love, he could never feel as others felt. When he lost all the love he ever had, no feeling of love could come again. Even though there was good and bad
The struggles he faced throughout his life and the trauma from losses he had to endure, shaped the way he behaved and thought. In his publication of “The Premature Burial,” Poe’s morbid thoughts were clearly seen. The title itself explains how Poe’s thoughts were gruesome. The narrator suffered from catalepsy, a condition in which an individual cannot move or think, but is aware of his surroundings. In a way, when Poe wrote this short story, he could have once again been relating to himself. When suffering from depression, a person cannot control their thoughts because their brain function has been disrupted, which causes them to behave and think differently. Surroundings can also affect the way an individual’s life can change when they are depressed. The narrator constantly feared being buried alive, and that fear soon became real. But only did the narrator realize it was not reality when his handicapped mental state returned to normal. In relation to Poe, as he suffered from depression, he too may have felt lost and dead. His dreary thoughts may have come from his confusion of life due to