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    This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Romance." It summarizes that the poem contrasts the beautiful imagination and wonder of childhood with the tragic realities of adulthood. As a child, Poe represented beauty with images like a colorful parrot, but his own childhood was scarred by loss. The poem shows how childhood visions fade and are replaced by heartbreak in adulthood. However, the final line suggests that adults can retain their childhood imagination and hope by tugging at the "heart strings." The document analyzes specific lines from the poem and discusses how Poe captures both the loss of childhood beauty and the potential to hold onto hope even in adulthood.

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    This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Romance." It summarizes that the poem contrasts the beautiful imagination and wonder of childhood with the tragic realities of adulthood. As a child, Poe represented beauty with images like a colorful parrot, but his own childhood was scarred by loss. The poem shows how childhood visions fade and are replaced by heartbreak in adulthood. However, the final line suggests that adults can retain their childhood imagination and hope by tugging at the "heart strings." The document analyzes specific lines from the poem and discusses how Poe captures both the loss of childhood beauty and the potential to hold onto hope even in adulthood.

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    Evan Byrd

    Introduction to Literature

    April 23, 2017

    Beauty and Loss as to Child and Adult: Romance by Edgar Allen Poe

    Edgar Allen Poe is not as well known for his poetry. Students, teachers, and avid readers

    remember him as the man who wrote creepy horror stories. If much research is don on Poes

    writing the poem Raven will be the first one that comes on the list. The poem Romance also

    known as Preface is one of the more undiscovered works of Poe. This poem dives into the

    common themes he illustrates; beauty, loss, and love. Romance describes to readers the

    beautiful romance of childhood full of imagination and wonder, and the factual tragedy of

    adulthood.

    To me a painted paroquet (5). This is a line from the childhood portion of the poem. What is

    a painted paroquet? By fact it is only a bird known as the true parrot. To Poe the bird

    represents beauty and color of childhood. Poes childhood didnt have this color. His childhood

    his scarred by the death of mother and father. Poverty was a constant issue through his early life.

    Color changes to darkeness in Poes poem. What once was a beautiful romance is turned to

    something cruel. My heart would feel to be a crime (20). At a young age Poes childhood

    neighbor and fianc becomes engaged to another man. This would break anyones heart, and

    change the course of your life. It would most defintiley make romance seem like a cruel dark

    thing.

    The reality of life has set in for an innocent child. Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
    With drowsy head and folded wing, Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within

    some shadowy lake, To me a painted paroquet, Hath beena most familiar bird Taught me

    my alphabet to say To lisp my very earliest word (1-8). These lines describe something

    wonderful, and will take readers back to a time in their life when things were simple. As

    adulthood approaches things change. Life is not as simple as it once was.

    Edgar Allen Poe may have been known for creepy stories, but this poem brings a different type

    of shill along your spine. A shill of knowing the reality. Childhood doesnt last forever, it fades

    away. Despite this fact the memories will always be there. Just like learning the alphabet, it never

    goes away. The sunny skies, the beauty of the outdoors, and the imagination children have is

    something they will lose, but never forget. Adulthood is marked by heartbreak, shattered dreams,

    and tragedies. Although this is what Poe intended us to see his final line says something

    different. Unless it trembled with the strings (22). Heart strings can be tugged, they can reveal

    the child like nature even adults possess. The imagination that is still hidden in the mind. The

    sunny skies that are still visible, even though the clouds dont always leave. Poe offers hope to

    the reader. If only heart strings are opened to the tugging, all beauty is not loss.

    Poe writes Romance to point readers to the beauty of childhood, and the loss of adulthood, but

    the possibility of hope. The poems lines are divided in half. Two separate worlds. Two different

    times of life. The only thing that keeps them together is the memory in the heart.
    Works Cited

    "Edgar Allan Poe." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 27 Oct. 2016. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

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