The Death Of Edger Allan Poe
Who is the master
of mysterious macabre
in intense short story
in haunting poetic verse?
The persona
of his poem
Spirits Of The Dead
relates another
of Edger's
possible thematic
dimensions
of haunting death.
These spirits
of the dead
are lost souls
newly come
into death
we witness
their first hour
of death
as our own
potential
after life.
'Into thine
hour of secrecy',
could be our own
fate or destiny,
our own first
awakening in death.
The newly deceased
are advised
'Be silent in that solitude',
in that first hour, because
‘In life before thee, are again
In death around thee, and their will
Shall overshadow thee; be still.’
The concept
of spirits long dead
assuming greater
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poem by Terence George Craddock
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