Edgar Allen Poe Alone!! can you tell me what it means i don't understand it?

Question

By parg.

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled

In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

yes it homework but i don;t understand it

Answer 1

http://www.mrcoward.com/slcusd/studentwork/web2k2/third/aneal/Web/explanation.htm

Here is a link tha twill take you through the poem and explain the meaning for you.

Answer 2

I think the answer is in the last three lines
when he realizes that the form was a demon
born from the problems(thunder and storm)
when life arouns seemed normal he was seeing life through this "demon", or anger and darkness.

Answer 3

Seems to me he's speaking about his childhood; how he was different from the other children. Maybe a bit eccentric, too, and how he wasn't 'into' the same things. He couldn't enjoy the same things 'normal' children enjoyed or found interesting. Then, he found his passion via this 'demon' in the last line--what drives him is something that's VERY dark and very distant from what's 'normal.'