An Analysis Of 'Eldorado' By Edgar Allan Poe

The world is full of mystery, and there are many places that some people believe it has been lost in time or forgotten in history. We learn about these lost places in the world, like Atlantis or Camelot from books that we read, but some people believe that they are just legends or cannot be found. On the other hand, some of these places can be rediscovered by people who traveled so far to seek these lost places and what happened to them, like Great Zimbabwe, Xanadu, and Mycenae. Furthermore, it shows the ideas of having the perseverance and the faith for people to do the impossible even if they don't succeed. In Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "Eldorado," he tells about a knight's journey throughout his lifetime: the knight is searching for the lost
The poet uses a metaphor in line 3 between the sunshine and the shadow in his poem. It’s contradicting between the understanding lighter and darker places of the poem. Also, it explains that the knight travels through the day and shadowy places. He stated lines 4-6 that the knight is taking a long journey to find the lost city of Eldorado and gold in his journey, and he’s traveling very happy as well as he’s singing a song. Therefore, it serves a moment of having a good time in traveling was like for us when we are traveling to different
Poe emphasizes the idea of a mystery and depression in the poem. He also symbolizes Eldorado much like heaven with dreams and purposes. At first, Poe started out this poem very entertaining and fun to read this poem. He also expresses the first and the fourth stanza from starting with bright and happy later turning sad and feeling hopeless. He also related to the deeper meanings of perseverance in finding the difficulty from an adventure even with time and the infinite impossibility. While working at something that’s impossible, the poem ends with the emotional imagery of a knight reminded us things are not always able to find, no matter what we