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Poe and 'The Awakening.' (Edgar Allan Poe)
From: The Mississippi Quarterly
Date: 19931222
Author:Franklin, Rosemary F.
The title of Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening,' as well as the books first title, 'The Solitary Soul,' were most likely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poems on sleeping, dreaming and waking, most notably 'The Lake ---- To --- -.' Relationships between Chopin's novel and Poe's poetry can be found in both works' preoccupation with dreaming and reality. Chopin's aesthetic portrayal of these themes, however, is the opposite of Poe's.
Like her critical predecessors, Emily Toth, in her recent biography of Kate Chopin, gives no source for the published title of The Awakening, or for its first title, ...
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