I never thought being confused would be enjoyable to anyone including me. But I was quickly proven wrong after diving into a few of Edgar Allan Poe’s writings. I normally have to read his poems three or four times to just to start to grasp a concept of one of his poems. But even though I don’t fully understand exactly what he is talking about, like for example in “The Raven” I enjoy putting my own imagination to use in trying to figure out what he is talking about. I think that in a way that’s what he intended when he originally wrote his poems. I believe that he knew of course exactly what they meant but also understood how difficult it may be for the reader and so he left it up to their imagination to kind of run with it. Not all of Poe’s writings are like this however. Like in his Tall Tale Heart story It is pretty easy to follow, but with Poe, at least in my opinion this is a rare occurrence.
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