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My Favorite Poet, Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Mirkin's Fitness & Health Newsletter ^ | Oct 30, 2018 | Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Posted on 11/01/2018 7:10:31 PM PDT by Western Phil

How He Probably Died To this day, physicians argue over the cause of his death. Alcoholism was ruled out because he did not have signs of alcohol withdrawal. On his deathbed he lapsed in and out of a coma and babbled incoherently. The most logical explanation for his death is that a few days before his death, he began to drink heavily, wandered drunk into the streets and fell into the hands of a gang of vote-repeaters. It was election day, and elections in Baltimore were won by the people who could threaten and force the most people to vote for them. So gangs went out and threatened to kill anyone who didn’t do what they told them to do. They forced people to vote, then change clothes and go back to the polls to vote again and again. That would explain why Poe was found in horrible clothes that could not possibly have been his. The most likely cause of his death was brain damage from being beaten by the thugs.

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To: Western Phil

William Blake is my favorite but Poe is right up there.

My Daughter likes Poe and he is her favorite.

Once I was telling a 7th grade class about poetry. I mentioned “The Raven”. and told them I wished I had it right then to read to them.

A little boy raised his hand and said he could get it from the library which I had him do.

After I read it to the class, they all stood up and applauded. I would say they liked it.


21 posted on 11/01/2018 7:49:03 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What did I put into it? I said I liked the meter. I liked the message of dedicating yourself to a distant goal. That is plainly in there. I also didn’t go any deeper into it.


22 posted on 11/01/2018 7:49:56 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: Jemian

It’s about what Poe puts into it, “for goodness sake.”


23 posted on 11/01/2018 7:52:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
One of my favorite movies is The Wind and the Lion. At the end, the protagonist's second-in-command remarks that everything is gone, floating away on the wind, that they have lost everything,. The hero answers with a question, "Do you not have anything in your life which is worth everything else?"

I think I, too, have something which is worth the sacrifice of everything else, and I have dedicated my life to it.

24 posted on 11/01/2018 7:54:31 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: yarddog

My sixth grade class didn’t like it much. I think it was that half of them were english language learners.


25 posted on 11/01/2018 7:55:35 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And yet, the fellow was famous for his stories and poetry... how did they ever think they would get away with pressing Edgar Allen Poe into that service?

It is my understanding that Poe didn't really achieve fame until after his death, and he died rather poor. In either case, there is no reason to believe that anyone would recognize him by sight, even in Baltimore.
26 posted on 11/01/2018 7:56:07 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Western Phil

Poe was the foremost god in the Bohemian pantheon. The 19th c. bohemians, that is.
I prefer Bierce, and nobody knows quite what happened to him either.


27 posted on 11/01/2018 8:03:14 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Western Phil

I thought he had developed a high fever and delirium before he died, ostensibly from a laudanum addiction.


28 posted on 11/01/2018 8:04:18 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: bankwalker

Agreed.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!


29 posted on 11/01/2018 8:08:17 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: deadrock

And each separate, dying ember
Wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Perfume from an unseen censer ...

Brilliant. Just brilliant.


30 posted on 11/01/2018 8:10:55 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jemian

If it’s Christ, then that involves some godly caution. No, not every imperfection can hurt you But it’s like trying to make no mistakes when playing a song. If you know about it, you put it in mind to try to avoid it.


31 posted on 11/01/2018 8:13:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Well, his last words were a prayer to Jesus.

I read that it took him five years to write The Raven.

Poe, strangely, was ambushed all most from the beginning of his life and sometimes never knew who was doing it.

A biographer wrote about him and savagely lied about him and it marred his reputation until the lies were finally discovered after Poe’s death.

It is somehow gratifying to know that Poe went after the pompous, insufferable Ralph Waldo Emerson.


32 posted on 11/01/2018 8:27:31 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

God has purposes above our ken. It was necessary in His plan for Poe to be, macabre though his expressed sentiments were. One needs to watch one’s life if one is a believer, because it may be the more scandalous things that are remembered.


33 posted on 11/01/2018 8:32:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Western Phil

I thought Poe was a Laudanum addict. I had a great aunt. After her death, found lots of empty brown bottles of in the house. Laudanum 10% tincture of opium for nerves.


34 posted on 11/01/2018 8:39:13 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: odawg

He also accused Longfellow of plagerism. Longfellow never acknowledged, he being in my belief a stand-up guy.


35 posted on 11/01/2018 8:42:10 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Silence, A Fable”

Repeating the phrase, “and the night waned, and he sat upon the rock”.

Poe must have been in a drug-infused delirium. Read it, it’s spooky.


36 posted on 11/01/2018 9:12:43 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: IronJack

Yes, indeed.


37 posted on 11/01/2018 9:26:07 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Western Phil
''It was during the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the Autumn of the year when the clouds hung oppressively low in the Heavens. I had been passing;alone, on horseback through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and as the shades of evening drew on found myself, at length, within view of the melancholy House of Usher...’’
38 posted on 11/01/2018 10:29:10 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: bankwalker

Poe is great ... Kipling is the best.


T. S. Eliot has them both beat in spades ... so there!


39 posted on 11/02/2018 2:03:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Western Phil

Bkmk


40 posted on 11/02/2018 2:28:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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