worth noting: (according to my award-winning 9th grade literature teacher) Poe believed that people are most perfect at birth, when they are closest to God, and that each and every experience takes you farther from God and therefore detracts from the perfection, but that death is a return to God and perfection. thus, Poe wanted to get as close to death as possible without actually dying in order to taste that perfection, so he used a lot of drugs and whatnot; this attitude was also reflected in his literature, most (i think possibly all, actually...) of which had to do with death. My teacher began and ended this lecture with a very simple sentence: "Poe is a freak."
needless to say, this is an amazingly beautiful poem, amazingly beautiful musical rendition (as is always the case with Antony)
worth noting: (according to my award-winning 9th grade literature teacher) Poe believed that people are most perfect at birth, when they are closest to God, and that each and every experience takes you farther from God and therefore detracts from the perfection, but that death is a return to God and perfection. thus, Poe wanted to get as close to death as possible without actually dying in order to taste that perfection, so he used a lot of drugs and whatnot; this attitude was also reflected in his literature, most (i think possibly all, actually...) of which had to do with death. My teacher began and ended this lecture with a very simple sentence: "Poe is a freak."
needless to say, this is an amazingly beautiful poem, amazingly beautiful musical rendition (as is always the case with Antony)