... . Poe is returned to America through French symbolism, and so made digestible to such important American poets as T.S. Elliot and Wallace Stevens. In opposition to the romantic stress on the expression of personality, Poe insisted on the importance not of the artist, but of the created work of art. He stands as one of the few great innovators in American literature who took ... of the country. As evening approaches, the house comes into view and the narrator finds that " with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom" pervades his spirit. Immediately the reader fin...

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... the poem "doubles back on itself since his recognition, in "To Helen," of the quest he had still to make is actually a form of his making it." ("Edgar Allan Poe, Symbolism in His Works). About a year later, Jane died and caused what would only be the first of Poe's heartaches. The ... They loved each other so much that they could not imagine life without the other. However, as the poem continues, the reader sees the dark aspect that is attached to so much of Poe's work. The thoughts of the moon shining every night to remind him of that which he had lost, of the stars never rising without ...

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• Grade Level: High School