Open Question: What do you guys think this poem mean!?
I really appreciate your opinion on this….
Do you guys think this poem fit to the word “alienation”? thanks
DREAMLAND by Edgar Allan Poe
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule-
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE- out of TIME.
Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over;
Mountains toppling evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters- lone and dead,-
Their still waters- still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily.
By the lakes that thus outspread
Their lone waters, lone and dead,-
Their sad waters, sad and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,-
By the mountains- near the river
Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,-
By the grey woods,- by the swamp
Where the toad and the newt encamp-
By the dismal tarns and pools
Where dwell the Ghouls,-
By each spot the most unholy-
In each nook most melancholy-
There the traveller meets aghast
Sheeted Memories of the Past-
Shrouded forms that start and sigh
As they pass the wanderer by-
White-robed forms of friends long given,
In agony, to the Earth- and Heaven.
For the heart whose woes are legion
‘Tis a peaceful, soothing region-
For the spirit that walks in shadow
‘Tis- oh, ’tis an Eldorado!
But the traveller, travelling through it,
May not- dare not openly view it!
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the fringed lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:27:28 GMT
Open Question: How can my friend lose weight…?
She had two kids, works almost 24/7 to make ends meet (so has NO time for exercise) and doesn’t make a lot of money (is poor). What do you recommend. She never even ate that much all her life (I eat way more and I’m not over-weight), but she is over-weight. Please, please, her health is in trouble. She said her doctor warned her of stroke, heart disease, heart attack, and she is already on blood pressure pills for the rest of her life and she’s in her mid-30’s. What can she do while in the situation she is in?
Time is OUT of the question for her, trust me.
It is not just “an excuse.” She is not like everybody else.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:52:17 GMT

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