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    Alone by Edgard Allan Poe

    Hi..I'm a new member here,, and I need your help Plz..

    I've assigment but I can't do it ..

    Plz can you help me..

    I want you to explain this poem and explain the imagery in it ,, there are 4 metaphores and a personification

    thanx 4 every one who will help me

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    As you can most likely tell, the beginning of the work is devoted to discussing the environment he grew up in; he is commenting on the solitude he felt growing up.

    He then says "Then-- in my childhood-- in the dawn of a most stormy life--was drawn from ev'ry depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still--" Poe then goes on to describe where this "mystery" came from through the use of both visual and auditory imagery (torrent/fountain, red cliffs of the mountain, thunder, etc). The cloud bit at the end is what threw me off,-- "And the cloud that took the form (when the rest of heaven was blue) of a demon in my view--" but I came to the conclusion that the "demon in my view" is the same as the "mystery which binds me still."

    Hope it helps,
    Sarasvati

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    Thanx so much Sarasvati21

    really , thank you

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