Edgar Allan Poe:
(né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849).
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States, and of early American literature. Poe was one of the country’s first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living by writing alone, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.
Is all that we see or seem. But a dream within a dream?
It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
They who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
All religion is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.
At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.
The sentence is a poetic and mysterious line. He literally describes someone who ‘stands under the moon at night, in June’. Symbolically, the line evokes an atmosphere of:
– ‘mystery and enchantment’ 🌌
– ‘dream and nocturnal silence’
– ‘melancholy’
– ’the supernatural’
– ’the boundary between life, sleep and death’
The words “midnight” and “mystical moon” reinforce the Gothic atmosphere. “June”, a month of blossoming and life, forms a striking contrast with the dark, dreamy mood of the poem.
So it is ‘not a proverb or saying’, but a ‘literary quotation line’ with a strong romantic-Gothic atmosphere.
📖 Origin:
The line comes from the poem “The Sleeper” by Edgar Allan Poe.
The poem was originally published as “Irene” in 1831. It was later revised by Poe and known as “The Sleeper.”
🖋️ Author:
– Name: Edgar Allan Poe
– Lived: 1809–1849
– Nationality: American
– Known for: Gothic stories and poems, such as “The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”.
Poe is often associated with themes such as ‘night, death, beauty, melancholy and the supernatural’. This rule fits very clearly with that.
Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
Deep in earth my love is lying. And I must weep alone.
