guys please please really help me with this. can you please summarize this poem for me? please do your best.

Question

A VALENTINE
For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Laeda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
Search narrowly the lines! -- they hold a treasure
Divine -- a talisman -- an amulet
That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure --
The words -- the syllables! Do not forget
The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor!
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely comprehend the plot.
Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus
Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing
Of poets, by poets -- as the name is a poet's, too.
Its letters, although naturally lying
Like the knight Pinto -- Mendez Ferdinando --
Still form a synonym for Truth -- Cease trying!
You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.

Answer 1

Aw, c'mon. You can figure out what this poem says; but probably very few people can figure out what it means.

After all, Edgar Allan Poe, the poet in 1846, ended it by saying, "You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do."

I couldn't figure out the riddle, as hard as I tried.

So what is the riddle?

Well, just read the poem as sentences and put it in your own words. "For her this poem is written, whose bright eyes will be able to find her own name somewhere on this page, hidden from every reader . . . ."

You can do the rest of it on your own. Right up to the last line, it's advice on how to find her name hidden somewhere in the poem. That's the riddle.

Somebody told me the answer, so I'll pass it along to you. Take the first letter of the first line; the second letter of the second line, the third letter of the third line, etc., through all 20 lines.

Now you figure it out. You will get his Valentine lady's name.

The only problem was that, when Poe first wrote the poem, he misspelled her name. The ninth letter in the ninth line was an "e" and it should have been an "a"; so the words "The smallest" had to be changed to "The trivialest" in the version you have. Not a very good word, actually; but it does have an "a" as the ninth letter.

If you have trouble figuring out the name (you shouldn't!), see the site listed below.

By the way, the phrase "twins of Leda" (Laeda is a misspelling) refers to the twins born of the Spartan queen Leda and Zeus, who seduced her as a swan. But in this poem, they are used as a simile for the bright eyes of the woman being addressed.

The Gordian knot refers to a problem that is practically unsolvable. In Greek mythology, the knot was one that could be untied only by the one who was meant to be king. Alexander the Great, frustrated because he couldn't untie it, simply sliced it with his sabre. Poe says you don't really need a sabre to solve this riddle.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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