Alone - A Poem By Edgar Allan Poe

‘ Alone ‘ by Edgar Allan Poe explores the poet’s feelings of loneliness and solitude from an early age. In the poem’s first lines, the speaker expresses his feelings of alienation from common joys and experiences. He constantly found himself alone. He traces his isolation back to early childhood in which he experienced a great deal of turbulence.

Transcript

Alone,

A poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

From childhood's hour I have not been.

As others were,

I had 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've loved,

I loved alone.

Then,

In my childhood,

In the dawn of a most stormy life was drawn,

From every depth of good and ill,

The mystery which binds me still.

From the torrent or the fountain,

From the red cliff of the mountain,

From the sun that round me rolled in its autumn tint of gold,

From the lightning in the sky as it passed me flying by,

From the thunder and the storm and the cloud that took form when the rest of heaven was blue,

Of a demon in my view.