Lenore Comments

This poem is amazing. I love it

.........very nice with excellent imagery ★ But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!

Ah! So beautifully sad...As was Edgar Allan Poes real life of romance....One of my fav poems, this be! ~FjR~

This is a sad poem that leads to the raven. I have no doubt.

This is one of the greatest poems i've ever read in my life

My middle name is Lenore, named after his poem, 'The Raven'. I found this poem a few months ago and memorized it right away. It's so pretty! ! <3

It is true that many of his poems are said to be inspired by his wife's death of TB at 24 yrs old. However her name was Virginia. (she was also his cousin, by the way)

Lenore was the name given to his wife who died from TB. She is referred to in the Raven by 'Whom the angels name, Lenore' (nameless here forever more) He also wrote Anabel Lee about her.

Many poems can have meanings which, perhaps, the author did not intend. Poe depicts someone (himself?) attempting to deal with the grief inherent in the loss of a loved one, especially the tragedy of a youthful demise. To me, however, this poem is a reminder that the process and ceremony of a funeral is not for the benefit of the deceased, it is for the living, the ones left behind, who must continue to live, and come to terms with the fact that someone who was a part of their life is now gone. Whether we weep or rage or celebrate, or all of them in turn, like in this poem, the funeral gives us the opportunity and venue.