I asked this question yesterday but only a couple people answered it correctly...?

Question

I asked...What is your favorite poem by Edgar Allen Poe and I think 4 people said The Telltale heart yes the telltale heart is by Poe, but I asked for a poem, NOT a novel. so can anyone give me there favorite poem by Edgar Allen Poe? Raven is not included.

Answer 1

I really liked his poem Annabel Lee. I believe Annabel Lee was a love interest of his. Try to read that poem, I found it to be moving.

Answer 2

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Answer 3

"The Bells." Normally, I can never decide if I like it or "the Raven" better, but since you explicitly excluded "The Raven", definitely "The Bells". The onomatopoeia alone is beyond impressive, and then there's the rhythm, the vocabulary with its connotations, and the way he uses all of these to build four completely different moods within the space of the poem. I love it. :)

Answer 4

I love Sonnet to Science and find the line about Diana and the car extremely chilling...

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Answer 5

Uh. . . how can Raven be not included. Is it not a poem? Granted it is rather long, but still, a poem none the less.