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From the thunder, and the storm—. And the cloud that took the form. (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view—. Source: American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1993) More About This Poem. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Of a demon in my view— When we’re young and struggling to find and establish our place in the world, many of us feel as though we’re simply not like other people. It comes as little surprise that Edgar Allan Poe – if we take this lyric poem as a personal expression of his own feelings – felt like this, too:
A Demon in My View [1] is a novel by British author Ruth Rendell. First published in 1976, it won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year, gaining Rendell the first of six Dagger awards she received during her career, more than any other writer.
- Ruth Rendell
- 1976
Of a demon in my view— “The rest of Heaven” here does not specifically mean Heaven as the sky or the kingdom of the righteous. Here, Poe is comparing himself to the rest of the Universe and the other people he knows to be in it.
Demon in My View is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and published on May 9, 2000. [citation needed] Originally entitled Bitter Life, it was published when the author was 16. It is the follow-up to In the Forests of the Night, which she wrote at the age of 13.
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- 2000
by Edgar Allan Poe. 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—. From the same source I have not taken. My sorrow—I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone—. And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—.
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Jul 19, 2015 · The poem ends on a harrowing note, that the narrator will always be doomed to see a demon in his view. Who or what is this demon? We’ll explore this in our analysis of the poem Alone below. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe: Background. The background for the poem Alone by Edgar Allan Poe is both fascinating and helpful for an analysis.
