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| | UNCP - HSTS 425 |
 | | His early poems (1824-35) have varied themes but are best seen through the prism of youth: Byronic ambition, love, and alienation. |
 | | Tamerlane, Alone, Al Aaraaf, Romance, Sonnet -- to Science, Fairy-Land, To Helen, Israfel, The Sleeper, The City in the Sea, To One in Paradise, The Coliseum, Politian |
 | | In brief, Poe's God is the force that set matter into motion; from a unity of being we were sent out into a whirling chaos that buffets and beats us, but we are, with the universe, ever collapsing back upon that singularity, a reunion with God, the small promise held out by death. |
| www.uncp.edu /home/berrys/courses/poe/poe_thematic_index.html (580 words) |
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