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Although I expected a haunting contemplation of death and its eerie silence, and despite my supposed I would read here a meditation on the Gothic horror of decay, I had all such suppositions overturned. Initially it seemed this poem was a question of whether life would be beautiful if there were to be no eternal sleep. Now I see it more in its true light: as a celebration of devoted love and the peace we can come to when confronted with death, an astonishment at the pulchritudinous state of a woman who has passed. All of these and more are the focus of today’s episode - the dark, dream-like poetry of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Sleeper.

Join me as I tell and explore one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most romantic poems, and how it traverses with subtle Gothic beauty the mourning of a lost loved one.

Teachers, students, horror literature fans, Halloween lovers, and Poe enthusiasts like myself…let’s dive right in.

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