what are common themes of edgar allan poe poetry?
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Poe was obsessed with man's darker side, his stuff is dark, sinister and gloomy, you should read some,
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He's mostly known for his dark works, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," and "The Cask of Amontillado" (a personal favorite in which the narrator essentially buries another man alive). Apart from his works in the macabre, Poe essentially created a new genre which is very popular today--the mystery.
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For me that is such a difficult question to answer.  I have so many favorites.  \n\nThe whole poem Desiderata is beautiful and profound.  Every line is special so I will quote only the last ones:\n\n"Therefore be at peace with God, \nwhatever you conceive Him to be,\nand whatever your labors and aspirations,\nin the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.\nWith all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,\nit is still a beautiful world.\nBe cheerful.\nStrive to be happy. "\n\nThen from High Flight by John Gillespie Magee we have:\n\n"Up, up the long delirious, burning blue \nI've topped the windswept heights with easy grace \nWhere never lark, or even eagle flew. \nAnd, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod \nThe high untresspassed sanctity of space, \nPut out my hand, and touched the face of God."\n\nFinally, I would refer you to a poem called Little Bateese by william Henry Drummond.  It is deceptively simple, but again profound.  It speaks of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, one of the things that really matter in life for sure.  There is nothing as special as the love of a grandparent and grandchild for each other.  The last lines of the poem are:\n\n"But leetle Bateese! please don't forget\nWe rader you 're stayin' de small boy yet, \nSo chase de chicken an' mak' dem scare\nAn' do w'at you lak wit' your ole gran'pere\nFor w'en you 're beeg feller he won't be dere--\nLeetle Bateese!"\n\nTranslation:  \nBut little Bateese!  Please don't forget\nWe'd rather you stayed a small boy yet\nSo chase the chickens and make them scared\nAnd do what you like with your old grandpere\nFor when you're a big fellow he won't be there -\nLittle Bateese!\n\nI get carried away with poetry!
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I would say that betrayal and revenge are consistent in Poe's work.  I'm thinking of The Masque Of The Red Death, The Cask Of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart.\nDeath would be the issue.  Revenge being the cause.  In the Red Death, the revenge is quite ironic, as it is lower and middle class society exacting its revenge on the upper-class.  At least that's how I see it.
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Wow that is more than a run-on sentence. run-on is a understatement for that. In an artistic speaking theme, this is perfect, for poetry cannot be stopped with simple structure of sentences and whatnot. But if you want you can try this.\n\n"I stand there, content, taking in the artistic blend of colors and patterns that adorn the walls, the paint with a purpose. Taking in the natural feel of the wood that makes up the counters, the shelves, the tables, the chairs, and the floors. Taking in the bright and shiny collections of goodies on sale, displayed in the best possible lighting. This lighting reflecting the light at just the right angle to attract the interest of a full wallet. Taking in shapes that mesh into an artistic, contemporary, relaxed and yet sophisticated living room. A comfy sofa chair in the corner with a complimentary personal lamp for the avid reader completes this artistical room of relaxation.\n\nSomething like that.
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Check out the Sonnets. Lots of great stuff in there. Sonnet 18 is the classic of course:\n Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,\nAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date:\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd;\nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,\nBy chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;\nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade\nNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;\nNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:\n  So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,\n  So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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Try "The Poet" and "The Poet's Mind" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.  One is funny and bright while the other is dark and dismal.  Good luck!
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I think the theme of the poem relates to the nature of the world and appreciating life.\n\n"Light takes the Tree" may refer to darkness when the sun sets (as fits with your interpretation "I am born to die"). The line about the worm climbing the stair refers to a struggle against great odds.\n\nI think the poet is saying to take your time in life and to learn how to live your life as you go.
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The theme is the main idea of the poem--you could almost say what the poem is about. A poem may talk about frozen birches, but the bigger message is how ice bends the branches, like life bends people sometimes. Here's a good source (below). I am answering this because I love poetry. Only in school does it matter what the theme seems to be. The truth is, a poem means what it means to you personally and that is the truth. Read some modern poets like Mary Oliver, Ted Koozer, Langston Hughes, Dorianne Laux before you give up on poetry.
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Yep.  Read more poems.  Frost, Burns, Shelley, others.  Your style may somewhat resemble one, maybe even Poe.  \n\nPoems have emotional content and feeling when they are most memorable, so don't overlook the opportunity when situations provoke similar feelings in you.\n\nYou need a greased track of words though, something that comes with exercise of your language talents.  You will need to become a buddy of dictionaries and thesauri.\n\nTry things like describing the current weather so well that any reader instantly sees what you are seeing.\n\nSimilar exercises are possible, your dog, an unusual friend.\n\nPoems pop out kind of magically sometimes if you are a person affording them such an opportunity.\n\nLook also at the words of songs and hymns.\n\nDo your own rewrites of some of these.  Wonderful new stanzas and poems have come that way.
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Edgar Allen Poe's Lenore:\n\nLenore\n\n   Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!\n   Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;\n   And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?- weep now or nevermore!\n   See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!\n   Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!-\n   An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-\n   A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.\n\n   "Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,\n   And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that she died!\n   How shall the ritual, then, be read?- the requiem how be sung\n   By you- by yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue\n   That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"\n\n   Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song\n   Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong.\n   The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,\n   Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy\n        bride.\n   For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,\n   The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes\n   The life still there, upon her hair- the death upon her eyes.\n\n   "Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven-\n   From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven-\n   From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of\n        Heaven!\n   Let no bell toll, then,- lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,\n   Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth!\n   And I!- to-night my heart is light!- no dirge will I upraise,\n   But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!"
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poems of different country(epics) man i need to pay attention in Reading Class a little more
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According to http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1252, themes are:\n\n"Themes\n\nThe theme of this poem is that a respectful distance between neighbours is the recipe for harmonious relationships:\n‘Good fences make good neighbors’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is a farmer’s pride in the wisdom passed down to him by his father:\n‘He will not go behind his father's saying’.\n \nThe poet portrays an unusual and dour country character:\n‘like an old-stone savage armed he moves in darkness’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is co-operation between neighbours:\n‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is that country people need their own space:\n‘We keep the wall between us as we go’.\n\nThe poet explores the futility of a country custom:\n‘Oh, just another kind of outdoor game’.\n\nThe poet suggests there are mysterious forces at work in nature:\n‘Something there is that doesn't love a wall,\nThat wants it down’.\n\nThe poet shows the different types of agriculture in his locality:\n‘He is all pine and I am apple orchard’.\n\nThe theme is the way some people keep to themselves, no matter what:\n‘He moves in darkness as it seems to me’.\n\nThe theme is the mental struggle between two neighbours who appear to co-operate on a physical task while they are very different in outlook:\n‘There were it is we do not need the wall’."
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Robert Frost:  "The Road Not Taken"\nRobert Browning:  "Porphyria's Lover" "My Last Dutchess"\nLangston Hughes:  "Harlem" "Dreams"\nWalt Whitman:  "O Captain my Captain\nEdgar allen Poe:  "Anabelle Lee"  "The Raven" "To Mother"
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to narrative forms of the emergent science fiction genre.[1] Poe died at the age of 40. The cause of his death is possibly believed to be from drug related problems.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 The life of Edgar Allan Poe \n2 Death \n3 "Memoir" – Griswold's biography of Edgar Allan Poe \n4 Literary and artistic theory \n5 Legacy and lore \n5.1 American literature \n5.2 Influence on French literature \n5.3 Other world literature \n5.3.1 England \n5.3.2 Russia \n5.3.3 Other Countries \n5.4 Detective fiction \n5.5 Science fiction, gothic fiction and horror fiction \n5.6 Playwrights and filmmakers \n5.7 Physics and cosmology \n5.8 Cryptography \n5.9 Music \n5.10 Visual arts \n5.11 Pop culture \n5.12 Preserved home \n5.13 Imitators \n6 Adaptations \n7 Selected Poe-related films \n8 Poe as a character \n9 Notes \n10 General references \n11 External links \n11.1 About Poe \n11.2 Works \n \n\n\n[edit]\nThe life of Edgar Allan Poe\n \nThis bust of Edgar Allan Poe is found at the University of Virginia where, having gambled away his tuition funds, he dropped out in 1827.Edgar Allan Poe was born to a Scots-Irish family in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809. The son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. Both parents died when Edgar was 3 years old. Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia. Although his middle name is often misspelled as "Allen," it is actually "Allan," after this family.\n\nAfter attending the Manor School at Stoke Newington, Poe attended the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House boarding school in the fall of 1818. The Manor House was located in the village of Stoke Newington; only four miles north of London. Poe moved back to the Allans in Richmond in 1820. After serving an apprenticeship in Pawtucket, Poe registered at the University of Virginia in 1826, but only stayed there for one year. He became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts Poe had acquired while trying to get more spending money, so Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private using the name Edgar A. Perry on May 26, 1827. That same year, he released his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, which now is such a rare book that a surviving copy has been sold for $200,000. After serving for two years and attaining the rank of sergeant major, Poe was discharged.\n\nIn 1829, Poe's foster mother, Frances Allan, died, and he published his second book, Al Aaraf. As his foster mother's dying wish, Poe reconciled with his foster father, who coordinated an appointment for him to the United States Military Academy at West Point. At West Point however, Poe supposedly deliberately disobeyed orders and was dismissed. After that, Poe and his foster father disowned each other until the latter's death on March 6, 1831.\n\nPoe next moved to Baltimore, Maryland with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Poe's first cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm. Poe wrote fiction to support himself, and in December 1835, began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond. On May 16, 1836, he married Virginia, who was 13 at the time.\n\n[edit]\nDeath\n \nEdgar Allan Poe's reburial celebration on November 17, 1875 at Westminster graveyard.On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," according to the man who found him. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died early on the morning of October 7. Poe was neve
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Romeo and Juliet: what are the major themes
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http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/merchant/themes.html