Devin McGinnis: Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe is know for writing beautiful and yet lamenting poems about lost loved ones.  He uses death and what is ultimately ugly as inspiration to present his emotions in a way that turns them into beauty.  It is his humanity that comes through in his poems that makes it beautiful.  One of his poems is called Lenore. In this poem he is lamenting the loss of his wife.  It is boarding on an epic of his travel through morning his loss.  He tries so desperately to hold on to what he lost "Let no bell toll! -lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth."  His pain and suffering, what is ultimately ugly,  comes through the poem and serves as a representation of his love and devotion to his wife, which in it of itself is a shadow of what is ultimately beautiful.