<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Death Of Edger Allan Poe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is the master <br>of mysterious macabre <br>in intense short story <br>in haunting poetic verse? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The persona <br>of his poem <br>Spirits Of The Dead<br> <br>relates another <br>of Edger's </div><div style="margin:10px 0">possible thematic <br>dimensions <br>of haunting death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These spirits <br>of the dead <br>are lost souls <br>newly come <br>into death </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we witness <br>their first hour <br>of death <br>as our own <br>potential <br>after life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Into thine <br>hour of secrecy', </div><div style="margin:10px 0">could be our own <br>fate or destiny, <br>our own first <br>awakening in death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The newly deceased <br>are advised </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Be silent in that solitude', <br>in that first hour, because </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘In life before thee, are again <br>In death around thee, and their will <br>Shall overshadow thee; be still.’<br> <br>The concept <br>of spirits long dead <br>assuming greater <br>power than the <br>newly dead <br>is embedded <br>in many cultures. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem <br>Spirits Of The Dead<br>attains rich <br>macabre imagery </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but the essence is<br> <br>‘Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish, <br>Now are visions ne'er to vanish’<br> <br>These words <br>describing thoughts and visions <br>ne’er to banish or vanish, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">imply an eternity <br>to face the consequences <br>of our deeds in life <br>in a limbo of the lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another rich tale <br>from a master, <br>at invoking settings <br>of emotive <br>alternative realities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His short stories <br>reveal a fascination <br>with emotional extremes, <br>particularly fear, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">though his essays <br>show that he was capable <br>of being objective and critical. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in life too real<br>how ultimately befell <br>The Haunted Death <br>of Edger Allan Poe? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poe returned to New York city<br>in 1844 still wretched and poor<br>despite popular literary acclaim <br>his life still wretched remained.<br> <br>Virginia his wife cousin died <br>of tuberculosis ill in 1847 <br>Poe an alcoholic still poor <br>died in Baltimore in 1849.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Herein we relate the final fate <br>of dark romantic doomed to die <br>in mysterious death tragic deed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poe was found in the streets<br>delirious in a great distress, <br>in early morn alone coherent <br>long enough never to explain, <br> <br>how he came to be in such <br>a dire deadly condition, <br>mysteriously oddly <br>wearing clothes not his. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">tragedy the mystery <br>fitting fate cursed <br>poet only deepens</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us recount ‘The Raven’ tis <br>the night before his death day, <br>Poe is said to cry out repeatedly <br>called called the name 'Reynolds' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to whom he was referring <br>remained eternally unclear, <br>Poe's final words sourced <br>'Lord help my poor soul'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What caused this untimely death? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poe's death newspapers reported <br>as 'congestion of the brain' or <br>'cerebral inflammation', this<br>common euphemism for deaths </div><div style="margin:10px 0">from disreputable causes <br>such as alcoholism<br>the actual cause of death <br>remains a mystery...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a host of wield explanations<br>abound suggesting multiple, <br>causes possibilities bizarre<br>speculation included cooping, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘delirium tremens’ colloquially<br>the DTs, the shakes, the horrors, <br>the heebie geebies, the fear, <br>the staggers and jags, the rats, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the shakes and the heaves, the abdabs, <br>afflicted jitterbugs; cholera, epilepsy, <br>heart disease, meningeal inflammation<br>rabies, syphilis, conditions precipitous. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mystery upon Mysteries<br>medical records, <br>including his death certificate, <br>were strangely lost! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526982" data-title="The Death Of Edger Allan Poe de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Who is the master of mysterious macabre in intense short story in haunting poetic verse? 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