05-02-2011, 12:00 AM
To _ _
I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath little of earth in it--
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:--
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
~EAP
I feel he is saying here that he pities the person who does not see their own freedom. The ones who live and feel immortal and that their acts are important. He is the passer by and its all so fleeting, our time here.
Poe lost his mom at age 2, his father was never really in the picture, his foster parents raised him, thats how he got the name Allan, and his foster mother Francis, whom he loved, died when he was young, his foster father disinherited him not too long after, his highschool sweetheart and he wanted to get married but her parents forbade it. He married his cousin and they were very happy in their marriage but she died not too long after, they had only about a decade together, he had so many things in his life that were temporary, so it helped him understand that we are all just passers by here. I can tell by the way he wrote near the end of his life that he had a great deal of fluidity, that much I know even though I do not know his specific thoughts. He had learned about the folly. And he saw how others were 'invested' in it perhaps. He was an outsider...his whole life, but I feel he came to a warm acceptance of it within himself the last few years of his life. His wife's death was the biggest challenge and it almost killed him and after that he was changed. His death is still a mystery.
I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath little of earth in it--
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:--
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
~EAP
I feel he is saying here that he pities the person who does not see their own freedom. The ones who live and feel immortal and that their acts are important. He is the passer by and its all so fleeting, our time here.
Poe lost his mom at age 2, his father was never really in the picture, his foster parents raised him, thats how he got the name Allan, and his foster mother Francis, whom he loved, died when he was young, his foster father disinherited him not too long after, his highschool sweetheart and he wanted to get married but her parents forbade it. He married his cousin and they were very happy in their marriage but she died not too long after, they had only about a decade together, he had so many things in his life that were temporary, so it helped him understand that we are all just passers by here. I can tell by the way he wrote near the end of his life that he had a great deal of fluidity, that much I know even though I do not know his specific thoughts. He had learned about the folly. And he saw how others were 'invested' in it perhaps. He was an outsider...his whole life, but I feel he came to a warm acceptance of it within himself the last few years of his life. His wife's death was the biggest challenge and it almost killed him and after that he was changed. His death is still a mystery.