Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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X? 'K 5 , ' I Q Z A , 1061 IIIJG 7 Al Q U D -Eggs: .V QIQ 4 ,na g-'nfs' . f f -T42 5 ya ' i . a rs ' MY APPRECIATION OF POE Personally, I am a great admirer of Poe's works-his tales of terror, his detective stories, and his poetry. When I first read The Pit and the Pendulum. I was filled with a horror which in my mind equaled that of the writer. His pictures of the unbelievable terrors of the Spanish Inquisi- tion are truly horrible and fear-inspiring, and be- cause of that they are works of art. No other author has yet succeeded in depicting those scenes with such a startling and vivid effect. Having read one of his stories, I was eager to read more of them, and I followed the first with The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usherf, and various others, each of which deep- ened on my mind the impression left by its pred- ecessor. To anyone who particularly enjoys the calm and serene poetry of Longfellow, Poe's stories are apt to seem gloomy and melancholy by comparison. By that I do not mean that I dislike Longfellow 3 in fact, he is one of my favorite poets, but Poe is so entirely different-so subtlely sug- gestive of terror in his tales-so expressive of rhythm and beauty in his poems that he appeals to one's mind by contrast. Poe arouses y-our imagination and stimulates your interest at the very outset of his stories. To read him appreciatively, it is necessary to be in the riglyt mood. You cannot feel drowsy or tired, and desirous of something which can be skimmed over lightly, leaving a pleasant impressi-on on your mind. Rather, you must be wide awake, ready to give your attention to what you are reading Q for it is only by this attitude that you can get the, most value from his works. There is a great deal of similarity between Poeis life and his writings. He was erratic, tempera- mental, and moody 3 above all, he was spoiled. Un- doubtedly Poe was a victim of drink and drugs, yet without them the world might have lost much of its admired literature. It is said that it was due to the influence of drugs that Poe wrote some of his most fantastic stories. He lived and wrote in an unreal world. Many of his poems are intangible and remote, for ex- ample, Ulalume of The Raven. What could be more indefinite than these weird tales? Never- theless, their rhythm is perfect and the words are beautiful as well as expressive. In American literature there is only one man who can be compared to Poe-Hawthorne. His stories, too, are. dark and somber, nearly always containing a suggestion of the unreal. Hawthorne, however, was not such a master in that particular line. Poe's tales of terror are unequaled. He is a supreme artist. It is said of him that no one wrote so little, ever rewrote that little so often and so successfully. He was conscious of his limitations and as he at- tempted only what he knew he could accomplish he excelled in what he did. 3 Poe's theory was one of beauty and you can- not read one of his poems without realizing this. It was not beauty of thought necessarily, but beauty of rhythm-beauty of expression which he practised. He often subordinates the thought of his words to their beauty and consequently sev- eral of his poems are nearly meaningless, yet per- fectly written.