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Old 01-05-2007, 01:29 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Mir
Would anyone like to share what they think this is about? I see it as something I can interpret in two completely dissimilar ways and was wondering, which way you guys were leaning as to its meaning.
To answer your question, I think it was a poem written about someone who had passed away. Poe experienced much loss in his life due to loved ones dying of tuberculosis, and this more than likely was written for one of the many.
To me he is saying how happy he was and how wonderful things had been, but then the person passes away, and it was as if all that he had experienced with her had been only but a dream.
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